Peace With No Thing

Graduation Year

2014

Publication Date

2014

Comments

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Abstract

In this short story cycle, concrete human experience orbits abstractions, specifically the ideas of violence, pain, and indifference. To the protagonists of these stories, these abstractions seem to be in control of their lives. Pain and violence are dense bodies that hold the protagonists in their orbit. They feel there is no escape from the cycles, that they are stuck in orbit around a painful existence that will forever steep them in misery. By demonstrating how these characters' stories are connected through webs of pain, I seek to help the reader understand cycles of violence.

Disciplines

English Language and Literature

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