The novel Stone Carvers is about how the different main characters feel in their distinct experiences of loss. My presentation covers the theme of the emotional impact of loss of how the effect of losing someone in the past could affect their life in the present. Thus, my other minor theme is past vs. present. In the novel, the characters are experiencing an emotional state of sadness by: hopefulness of one’s return; regret of what should have been; and isolation of self in society, that affects their life in the present. These points will talk about how John Becker is still hopeful for his grandson’s return, the regrets that Klara Becker experiences in the past, and distance of Klara in the society. John Becker, grandfather of Tilman, …show more content…
With this hope, he forgets about his granddaughter, Klara that is also interested in carving. According to Freud, John Becker has a case of mourning because he never abandon a libidinal position, in this case Tilman, even though the substitute is already beckoning to them, which is Klara. He still holds on to the memories and expectations of his grandson, which the libido is bound. Another point was Klara’s repentances toward her past. She treats her love with Eamon as something that would last forever. So, when she knew that he will likely to join the war. She reminisces the times that they spent together and she regrets every moment of it. As Freud says that an attachment of the libido to a particular person, which is Eamon, had once existed that when a disappointment comes from this person, in this case the war, the object relationship was shattered. So, Klara’s behavior in the present still has the effect from a mental constellation of revolt – which is regret and anger. She feels that all the people around her in the past and also in the present treated her with injustice and insult. The next point is how Klara reserves herself with her present. After the death of