Resilient Person Argument Analysis

The author begins her argument with a real life example of a nine year old boy whose mother is an alcoholic and a father who is gone. She then describes the boy's attitude and perseverance and how he ends up succeeding even through his traumatic childhood, thus achieving resilience. With this example she goes deeper into how children who experienced stress and difficult situations would be able to be resilient. After research, she informs the reader that there are two answers to resilient people one of which relies on luck and the other of the individual and their personality and experience. From this point of her argument, the author focus on these two groups. With her statement that some element of a resilient person relies on luck, she uses
an experiment from Werner to show how a person with a strong supportive parent or mentor figure are able to become resilient thus being lucky they found such a person. Another factor that could influence a person is their personality and experience and the way they look at and respond to a difficult situation, their perception. The article shows the significance and impact of a person’s perception and how it could lead them to a better possibility, by viewing the experience as an opportunity to grow, or a worse outcome, by viewing the experience as traumatic. With this information, the author conclude by telling us to persevere and regulate our emotion and mind to not fall into stress and trauma.