"Hope is the thing left to us in a bad time." This is what E.B. wrote in one of his letters. Hope can encourage you to persevere no matter what situation your in. The quote from E.B. White explains that hope will always be there. Besides E.B. White's letter there are lots of other texts in our human spirt unit that show this theme. Some of the other texts include, The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett and "Shattered Lives" by Kristen Lewis. In these stories it is shown that hope can help you overcome obstacles.
The first text that shows that hope can encourage you to persevere is E.B. White's letter to a man who had lost faith in humanity. He wrote about how we can save the human race from darkness.He explains that there you need people to hope to save the world from going to a dark place. In E.B. White's letter he said, "Things can look dark, then a …show more content…
This article explains that there are thousands of refugees and they all had to move away from their home to get away from war. Hundreds refugees from Syria have left home and set up a camp with other refugees. The refugees have named this camp Zaatari. Kristen Lewis says in her article that "life continues to flourish in Zaatari"(9). Even though these refugees have been chase out of their homes they still continue on with their lives and they all still hope that they can go back to their homes. In the rest of the article Lewis focuses Dania's family.Dania is a little girl with lots of dreams even thought she is a refugee. Kristen say this about Dania on page 10," In spite of everything she has been through, Dania holds on to her dreams for the future . . . With pride, Dania says she intends to become a doctor when she grows up." This quote shows that real people who are in terrible situations never give up their hope and will persevere no matter