The Grapes Of Wrath: An Analysis

Everybody has challenges in life, but everybody solves them in different ways. Some people have harder difficulties than others. One thing that is different from everyone is the way they solve them. Some people overcome obstacles by accepting help from others, facing their problems, or just being a creative problem solver. Moreover, a common way people overcome adversity in life is to accept help from other people. In the personal narrative, Aimee Mullins wrote she lost her legs when she was at a really young age. Towards the middle of Aimee’s narrative, she explains how she accepted help from other people and got together with a bunch of experts to build her own pair of legs. When they got together and made the legs Aimee set 3 world records in those pairs of legs. Another example of someone accepting help from others is Helen Keller’s autobiography. In her autobiography she talks about her teacher, Miss Sullivan, trying to teach her to communicate. It wasn’t very easy because at first Helen was very stubborn and couldn’t see or hear Miss Sullivan, but
eventually accepted the help from Sullivan and learned how to communicate. In the end, when going through difficulties in life accept help, it will be a lot easier. In addition, accepting help is a great way to go through difficulties, but sometimes you need to just face your problems straight on. In the news article “A young Tinkerer Builds a Windmill, Electrifying a Nation,” 20-year-old William Kamkwamba faced his challenge in life straight on, which was the lack of electricity. William grew up on Masala, Malawi which was woefully short of electricity until William saw a picture of a windmill inside an old textbook. Once he saw that picture he built 3 windmills from blue-gum trees and old bicycle parts. Another person who had to face their problems was again Helen Keller. Helen Keller has obviously faced many problems in life, being blind and deaf, but how she got over her main problem was facing her communication problem head on. She used to be stubborn and hard to work with before Miss Sullivan came, but Keller got over being stubborn really quick and instead worked with Miss Sullivan. Yes, accepting help and facing your problems in life will help you, but there is one more big thing you can do. Furthermore, the best thing you can do to help yourself get through life’s problems is to be a creative problem solver.
In the novel “The Grapes Of Wrath” a family needed to sell all their stuff and move to California. This creative because not everyone left to California, some stayed and suffered because of it. It may have sucked having to get rid of all of your belongings, but in the end, you’re making more money and living a better life. In the news article about William Kamkwamba, he also shows creativity. He shows creativity because he didn’t have anyone or anything to show him how to build windmills, he taught himself to do it. He obviously did a great job of making one from scratch because now he’s working with professionals who are paying for him to go to school. Showing creativity when solving problems will definitely help you in life and get you through problems faster, all you have to do is
try. In conclusion, yes being a creative problem solver helps, yes facing your problems helps, and yes accepting help definitely helps, but what you need to learn to do is use them together to be an awesome problem solver, be like no one else. Obviously, other people have gone through way worse difficulties than you have, but no one has gone through the exact same problems as someone else, and that’s what makes every situation hard, the variation in which the problems are presented. As you have read this essay you should have learned plenty of tips and tricks on how to get through adversity, now put it to use, in your own life.