Being stuck in the wildern for the entire summer is one traumatic event. What if you had to survive the winter in the wilderness with nothing but the clothes on your back. The story Brian’s winter by gary paulsen takes place after the book Hatchet if he wouldn't have gotten recused. Now he has to brave a canadian winter. The theme of this book is to pay attention to what is going on around you. I know this because brian hasn't been paying attention to what is going on around him like winter changing and the animals acting different. It has been getting ccolder and colder each day and he just doesn't notice it as a sign of winter.…
People decide their own destiny, and these decisions can be changed: People use strategies to help them in life which were first used in their childhood. These strategies were used as a way for the child to survive and get what they want,…
Life’s events can change our priorities. Tom Benecke’s experience in “Contents of a Dead Man’s Pockets” by Jack Finney is a perfect example of this: before Tom’s experience on the ledge, all he cared about was work, his wife and family, but everything in his life came second to his work. After Tom nearly died, several times, he realized that he was doing life all wrong. It was not until he went through this traumatic experience that anyone could get through to him. If Tom’s priorities can change drastically anyone’s can.…
When one is internally consumed by resentment, they become isolated and it takes an extreme event such as a great loss to regain inner peace. A young teen in the story “The Moths” is the outcast in her family. She isn’t girly or dainty like the rest of her sisters. The narrator almost always feels alone, even at church. The only person that can make her feel safe is her grandmother.…
People make changes in their lives constantly. Whether the changes are big or small, they will impact the person’s life in some way, shape, or form. The literary works The Bean Trees and “Who Said We All Have to Talk Alike” prove that if a person takes control of their life, it will likely result in a change of mindset or their outlook on life.…
At some point or another in adulthood we are all forced to make decisions that may alter or effect the way we live our lives. Sometimes these decisions are positive other times they are negative. Thought and planning are two of the most important factors that will help determine how things will turn out. I recently was faced with the dilemma of leaving my apartment which my son and I have lived for the past ten years and the two of us moving to a new area and new apartment with my boyfriend. This decision was very difficult for me and required a lot of thinking, time, and tons of both wanted and unwanted advice.…
Have you ever noticed that everything you do or say has a consequence? In the short story “Sucker” by Carson McCullers, one of the points or themes that McCullers tells readers is that every choice, every action, everything, someone does has a consequence. For example, in the story when Pete yelled at Sucker for getting on his nerves and told him nobody cared, the result of Pete saying that was the relationship between Pete and Sucker would be different, almost broken. The text says “‘Nobody cares anything about you!’ . . . And later when I wanted to apologize as I had planned he looked at me in this new hard way so that I couldn’t say a word.”…
The life decisions someone makes have total control over them. The author of The Other Wes Moore is Wes Moore. This story is about 2 Wes Moore's that come from the same bad place but end up with totally different stories. There are two Wes Moore's and they both grow up in the ghetto, but one of them finds there way out and the other one gets stuck and get find their way out. They might be the same person, but they have different stories. In the book, The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore, the author explores the idea of to develop the theme: life decisions will have a big toll on people, it will decide if they succeed or fail, but they have to make their own choices.…
Anthony Robbins once said “It’s in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.” People make so many quick decisions unconsciously, whereas other decisions are lamented over. Society makes choices and creates opinions through deep mental thought which is influenced by preference, logic, feelings, and reflection. Some people may even question whether free will is a believable concept. Others believe it is all within our own power to make decisions that will lead to greater happiness. Little decisions lead to big consequences because when small and simple decisions are made, big decisions are to come, choices indicate character, and every decision made impacts other decisions.…
If life would be predictable, individual’s controlling every aspect of their lives than our world would be polar opposite than today. A young man abandoned at birth, stealing food and sleeping on the streets of Paris. Unknowing when his next meal is going to be and a stranger to the feeling of love. Rejected by society and destined to a miserable and lonely life. A soldier…
“When your values are clear to you, making decisions becomes easier.” said Eric K. Disney. Memories and events in one's life has major impacts on how their future is shaped. I have many events in my life that helped me choose my goals, for after college, of becoming a teacher. Hunting, fishing, and sports are all immense parts of my everyday life, mainly on the way I was raised and the decisions I've made along the way. Many parents tell their kids at a young age that they do not have to follow what their siblings, cousins, leaders, or anybody else has done.…
Making decisions can affect a person’s life for better or for worse. Most people will decide whether to eat something or not, but most teenagers today will decide whether to complete their homework or not. Daily decisions consist of what a person will eat, who that person will talk to, where they decide to go, and the list could go on. Mark Twain, a famous writer, expresses decision making with the story Huckleberry Finn. In the story Huckleberry Finn, Huck Finn, a thirteen year old boy, makes decisions for himself, like refusing to have his money, traveling with his new friend Jim, and whether to stay with his new “friends” the King and Duke.…
Our choices that we make as children and young adults can have lasting effects on our lives later on. This is shown in Wes Moore’s book The Other Wes Moore as he describes how his decisions and role models affected his life and how the other Wes Moore's affected his. Similarities and differences between the role models and choices of both Wes Moores were explained and compared in the The Other Wes Moore.…
Once upon a time, a businessman named Ray Kroc discovered a restaurant owned by two brothers. The restaurant served just four things: hamburgers, French fries, milk shakes and Coca-Cola. But it was clean and inexpensive, and the service was quick. Mr. Kroc liked it so much that he paid the brothers so that he could use their idea. Their name: McDonald's.…
The word tragedy finds its origin in Greek spirit,theory and mythology in the word tragedia. Tragedy tends to bring to mind the thoughts of pity and sympathy. According to Aristotle, the famous Greek philosopher emotions of pity and fear are aroused while watching or listening to a tragedy. Tragedy is a play that represents a central action or plot that is serious and significant. These plays involve a main character that is a normal human being with his share of good and bad characteristics. The protagonist is socially active, intelligent and a learned man. A tragic play entails both verbal and dramatic irony. Dr. Faustus was perhaps the most well written tragedy of its times and happens to remain so till date. Christopher Marlowe is the founder and the originator of the mature English tragedy. Written in 1586, Dr. Faustus is a part of the age that was famous unprecedented literary activity in England, especially drama. Insofar as the significance of the formulation of tragedy by Aristotle is unparalleled, the Elizabethan’s quest for prosperity both personal and national and spiritual and moral growth remains the major reason for the rise in tragic drama. In addition to this the Renaissance brought with it a keen awareness of infinite capabilities and aspirations all of which remain unchanged even today. Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus is on similar lines. Its art of tragedy is instrumental in comprehending the complex nature, mind and life of a man in those times. For Marlowe or his successors tragedy was not a restriction of man’s ability to excel, rather it was in view of the glory it brought to in the man’s pursuit of his dreams, even though failure was inescapable.…