A strong human spirit is essential for any journey, emotional, physical or inner. Types of journeys don’t always relate to physical experiences, but can relate to inner thoughts or emotional feelings depicting positive or negative effects. A journey generally leads to the development of an individual been either internal or external.
A human spirit is the psychology of an individual, it is the mental state of one’s mind. An individual with a strong human spirit often holds the ability to resist, fight or bounce back. Having a strong human spirit is essential for any journey to overcome the countless challenges and obstacles faced on physical, emotional or inner levels.
Today I will be discussing two texts, the first text I will be talking about is a film called The boy in the Striped Pyjama’s directed by Mark Herman, the film is based on the novel written by John Boyne. The film evaluates different human spirits as a family from Berlin physically travels into the countryside regarding the father, Ralph, due to his promotion to commandment of a Nazi Concentration camp during the time of Nazi Germany. The wife Elsa is oblivious to the true reasoning of moving houses, I will discuss her emotional and inner journey as she gradually reveals her husband’s line of duty testing her strong human spirit.
The second text I will be discussing is a folk rock song called Cat’s in the Cradle by Harry Chapin. The song establishes the emotional truth of a father and sons relationship from childhood to adulthood, as the fathers responses become a reality to his future life as a realisation of how he has brought up his son.
The mother Elsa in The boy in the Striped Pyjama’s continuously reflects a individual with a strong human spirit along her emotional and inner journey. In a scene when Elsa returns from shopping is confronted by a horrid smell while opening the door of the car. She gives her attention to Kotler, one of her