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[email protected] THE FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES WALKING THE DEAD By SABRINA LEIGH BOYER A Thesis submitted to the Department of English in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts Degree Awarded: Summer Semester, 2004 The members of the Committee approve the thesis of Sabrina Boyer defended April 22, 2004. ___________________________ Virgil Suarez Professor Directing Thesis ____________________________ Maxine Montgomery Committee Member ____________________________ Elizabeth Stuckey-French Committee Member Approved: _______________________________________ Bruce Boehrer, Graduate Studies, Department of English _______________________________________ Donald Foss, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences The Office of Graduate Studies has verified and approved the above named committee members. ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract …………………………………………………………………………………..iv 1. PART ONE ……………………………………………………………………………. 1 2. PART TWO ……………………………………………………………………………25 BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH ……………………………………………………………..52 iii ABSTRACT The topic of my master’s thesis is a long time coming. Since entering the graduate program, even attending Florida State University as an undergraduate and taking my first writing workshop my sophomore year, I have been writing, essentially, about the same topic in different forms. The subject is my father. The first story I wrote was about a girl who wanted the life of her neighbor because her own life was not perfect. It was real. It had flaws. The father in that first piece of fiction was my father. He had a heart attack. He was living past his prospective expiration date.