One Last Time Analysis

Failure and success are a massive part of life. Everything that is done can be interpreted into being successful or a failure. Being successful means that the expectations that were given were either met or exceeded, whether it is in school, sports, work, etc. Failure, however, would be falling under the given expectations or standards, and just not trying hard. My parents have high expectations for me that sometimes I feel like I cannot meet. Failure is not an option in their eyes, as many other parents. They expect me to work hard to achieve their expectations and to get what I want in life. Sometimes, I’m excited at first to work to get what I want. For example, in “One Last Time”, the author says “When we arrived I was frisky and ready to go…” (Soto). When work first started for him, he was excited and ready to learn new skills in order to be successful. I can relate to this because every time I try something new, I’m excited to do it at first but then farther down the line, once I’ve been doing it for a while, it just becomes routine and boring to me and my parents expect me to keep
While, their intentions are for me to be successful, they also want me to follow in their footsteps. In “The Way to Rainy Mountain”, Momaday is following in his grandmother’s footsteps to find out if the story she told him is true. It says, “At the top of the ridge I caught sight of Devil’s Tower up thrust against the gray sky as if in the birth of time the core of the earth had broken through its curst and the motion of the world begun. There are things in nature that engender an awful quiet in the heart of man; Devil’s Tower is one of them” (Momaday). When he found Devil’s Tower, he was successful in finding out if the story his grandmother had told him was true or not. Similar, to this, my mom used to tell me that I will always be successful if I followed after something I believed