Tim Pegler, the author of ‘Five Parts Dead', establishes that specific sentiments and feelings can significantly affect the person concerned and those surrounding them. He explores this through the protagonist Dan, who was one of the only survivors of a car crash that killed three of his friends as well as severely injured another. However, this was not the only incident where Dan found himself with ‘a foot on each side' of life and death; he had also survived four other incidences prior. Consequently, the weight began to bear down on him. As a result of the more current accident, he began feeling the heavy emotions of guilt, grief and both physical and metaphorical isolation, which he struggled to overcome due to his lack of acceptance of
