In Search Of April Raintree Summary
In In Search of April Raintree a journey takes place to achieve a truly meaningful life. The author Beatrice Culleton Mosionier executes an excellent job portraying the journey that one would take to achieve a meaningful life. Therefore there are three key points that need to be accomplished to reach this journey, having a purpose in life, unconditional friends, and finding one’s self and personal identity. A person need’s to find a useful purpose in the world in order to acquire the feeling of belonging. Unconditional friends are necessary, because it’s essential to surround yourself with people who love and accept you for who you really are. Once finding self and personal identity you are capable of taking on anything that is put in front
of you. Consequently with these three main points in life, one will achieve an incredibly meaningful life.
Achieving a purpose in life can really be anything. Have something important that requires you to get out of bed every day. One need’s to find a valuable purpose in the world. In the novel, April accomplishes this upon finding out she is an auntie to her sister Cheryl’s son, Henry Liberty. “But for Henry Lee and me, there would be a tomorrow. And it would be better. I would strive for it. For my sister and her son. For my parents. For my people” (p.207).
Having Henry in her life she has found her true purpose is to
To experience a profound sense of meaning, a person needs to surround themselves with individuals who love and accept them.
A life of meaning is more deeply tied to expressing and defining yourself.
Happiness does not always result in a meaningful life. One can find a meaning in life and be unhappy at the same time. When defining a ‘meaningful life’ it can be broken into three separate words; Meaning- what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification. Ful- a suffix meaning “full of,” “characterized by” (shameful; beautiful; careful; thoughtful); “tending to,” “able to”. Life- a corresponding state, existence, or principle of existence conceived of as belonging to the soul.
of you. Consequently with these three main points in life, one will achieve an incredibly meaningful life.
Achieving a purpose in life can really be anything. Have something important that requires you to get out of bed every day. One need’s to find a valuable purpose in the world. In the novel, April accomplishes this upon finding out she is an auntie to her sister Cheryl’s son, Henry Liberty. “But for Henry Lee and me, there would be a tomorrow. And it would be better. I would strive for it. For my sister and her son. For my parents. For my people” (p.207).
Having Henry in her life she has found her true purpose is to
To experience a profound sense of meaning, a person needs to surround themselves with individuals who love and accept them.
A life of meaning is more deeply tied to expressing and defining yourself.
Happiness does not always result in a meaningful life. One can find a meaning in life and be unhappy at the same time. When defining a ‘meaningful life’ it can be broken into three separate words; Meaning- what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification. Ful- a suffix meaning “full of,” “characterized by” (shameful; beautiful; careful; thoughtful); “tending to,” “able to”. Life- a corresponding state, existence, or principle of existence conceived of as belonging to the soul.