The Portrayal of Grief in You've Reached Sam Novel by Dustin Thao

The result of this research shows Julie follows all the stages of grief over Sam's death. Even though the grief stages is unsequentially. Among all the existing stages, she did not experience 2 of the stages indicators, namely shock in the denial stage and angry towards those who have control of their loved one's lives in anger stage. Her characterization changes at each stage, where Julie is initially wishy-washy and then becomes grumpy, Julie then became pessimistic and moody until finally she can be sincere and accept her destiny.