The Dead

Conchis tells Nicholas that the dead live by love.  Lily had died from working at a hospital during an epidemic.  This makes me think of stories that involve hauntings and people seeing loved ones in the form of ghosts.  In Native American myths of the Dogrib people, it is believed that if a person holds on to a loved one's possession who has passed on, they will see their ghosts.  The only way to stop the dead from haunting the living in this scenario is to burn the belongings of the dead.  In the book The Lesser Blessed, the protagonist, Larry, tells a story of the dead which is identical.  The Lesser Blessed is highly mythological and I am going to be explaining this novel's mythological connections in my final paper.