Grief (novel) The stages are denial, anger, depression, and acceptance. The narrator, as well as other characters in the story, slowly passes through these stages in trying to deal with death. During the story, the theme of dealing with grief overcomes the narrator, the landlord and Frank. Premature death grief results from the guilt that they try to deal with because of the AIDS epidemic. Many of their friends, for example one named Nick is overcome by the disease. When told about his HIV, Nick “looked like a deer caught in a car’s headlights for weeks... he even chased the doctor who
Rostow's stages of growth criticizes Marxist revolutionaries' push for economic self-reliance in that it pushes for the "initial" development of only one or two sectors over the development of all sectors equally. This became one of the important concepts in the theory of modernization in social evolutionism. Below is an outline of Rostow's Five Stages of Growth: Rostow claimed that these stages of growth were designed to tackle a number of issues, some of which he identified himself, writing: "Under what impulses did traditional, agricultural societies begin the process of their modernization? When and how did regular growth become a built-in feature of each