Sisyphus Research Paper

The myth of Sisyphus is about a man who cheated death. The gods punished him by sending him to Tartarus, where he had to push a boulder up a mountain for eternity. Albert Camus’,French existentialist, had his own ending to the myth, in which Sisyphus accepts his fate and finds the happiness is his punishment therefore he is no longer punished. Everyone is pushing their own rock up their own mountain whether it is excruciating, effortless and unknowing or maybe even both . My rock is school work and my mountain is high school itself. In the beginning, it was calm, I was in elementary when I began to walk on what is now my unimaginably humongous mountain. When I started, my boulder was the size a mere pebble made of a sheet of paper. I did not think of it as a rock that I was supposed to be pushing up a mountain. It was almost like a crumpled up piece of paper that sat at the bottom of my backpack. It never
My mountain has prestiged from a hill to an undoubtedly steep summit, almost like the Trango Towers. My shot put has grown into a boulder with an enormous amount of weight in which no one can carry except for me. It is constructed of finals and essays tied together with homework. Here there are constant avalanches of stacks of papers that would undermine my grip on the mountain causing me to constantly slip every step I take. The pens and pencils in my backpack help me overcome the spikes, assembled of homework, that pop out occasionally on the mountain tormenting me. I am approaching the end of the halfway point of high school. During this period there is currently a storm that is pouring finals all over me, intimidating me. Essays flying all around blinding me, I cannot even see beyond my own two hands. I am going to reach the eye of the storm in a few weeks, it will last for a few months then I am back to, even more, essays and harder homework in the eleventh