Date of Award
5-2023
Degree Type
Creative Project
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
English
Committee Chair(s)
Jennifer Sinor
Committee
Jennifer Sinor
Committee
Michael Sowder
Committee
Christine Cooper-Rompato
Abstract
This collection of essays examines how I house the grief for the losses of my religion and my grandfather. My first essay, “Body of Feathers,” looks at my body as a house of shame and how I transformed my body into something that could be mine instead. It explores a series of moments from my life where I felt disconnected from my body, usually because of rules or expectations set by someone other than me. In the essay, I move from feeling like I had no control of my body, to taking back control and experiencing my body as mine for the first time. The second essay, “Obituary,” houses the grandfather I knew and loved but shares space with the grandfather I didn’t know, and who didn’t know me. I center most of my essay in the final few moments with my grandfather before he died and weave memories of him and drafts of the obituary I didn’t write for him at the time. I complicate truths that I chose to ignore and write about the truths I only learned after he was gone. It is ultimately a eulogy for his life and a eulogy for the things I never got to say to my grandfather.
Recommended Citation
Eralie, Megan, "House of Grief" (2023). All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023. 1726.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/gradreports/1726
Included in
Copyright for this work is retained by the student. If you have any questions regarding the inclusion of this work in the Digital Commons, please email us at .