The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner‚ by Alan Sillitoe deals with an athlete facing conformity. Smith‚ Sillitoe’s character is a young "rebel‚" who is in a borstal for stealing money from a neighborhood bakery. Smith is a long-distance runner‚ who runs every morning while in the borstal. The borstal governor keeps on top of Smith to keep running and win the "Borstal Blue Ribbon Prize Cup for Long Distance Cross-Country Running (All England)." Throughout
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Loneliness can tear people down‚ and make people feel like they have no one to turn at the rough patches in life. In the fictional novella Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck‚ Steinbeck illustrates the way loneliness can negatively affect people. The novella depicts the way that George and Lennie wander California‚ and then settle into a ranch as workers. Men come and go at the ranch‚ all wanting to achieve their dreams of owning land‚ but the loners never actually make their dream a reality. The workers
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independent working man who could do very well by himself and there is Lennie a man of tremendous size and strength but has the mind of a young child. There are also other characters but the three characters that are relevant are people who exemplify loneliness and isolation. The first character is who is lonely and isolated is Candy. He never really had anyone to begin with but he had his loyal dog. He raised his dog from a pup from which began to grow old with him “That’s a hell of an old dog” (24)
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LONELINESS The dark intense feeling of loneliness is an element of life that is inevitable to all people on a global level. To me it is like a parasite‚ is a virus eating away at the soul. ‘Of Mice and Men’‚ by Steinbeck exemplifies the loneliness of life on a Californian Ranch. John Steinbeck accomplishes this through characters as well as name of the town. A theme should be present during every element of the story‚ there are many themes that are present most of the way such as friendship but
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Loneliness In “Of Mice and Men” Steinbeck shows the life of ranchworkers and other characters in the early 1930’s and shows how people are willing to achieve their dream. There are specific words such as “Soledad” and “Solitaire”‚ Soledad connotes loneliness and Solitaire is single man game. This makes it clear that all men who work on the ranches are lonely‚ while others more than each other. At the beginning the path is described as “a path beaten by hard boys coming down from the ranches to swim
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Arendt equates loneliness directly with the idea of a totalitarian government. In order to effectively do this however‚ she first must differentiate between isolation and loneliness‚ and under what circumstances isolation turns into loneliness. It seems to me that as long as you‚ as a human being‚ are in control of the feeling‚ and the feeling/emotion/state of being is not in control of you then it is isolation. Someone can choose to be isolated‚ in the true sense of the word (not the medical or
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The Causes of Loneliness. | Being abused and rejected by others | | Being unable to fit in | | A broken heart or missing someone | People feel lonely because they don’t have the required friendships that they need. Poets described feelings of being isolated‚ lacking social support‚ feeling invisible‚ or feeling that no one around understands what that person is going through. So in essence‚ lonely individuals (like everyone else) need friendships‚ friends who would take notice of them
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IS THE WELL OF LONELINESS A CLASSIC OF LESBIAN LITERATURE? Radcliffe Hall’s novel‚ The Well of Loneliness‚ depicts the girlhood and womanhood of a non-conventional woman‚ Stephen Gordon‚ who after assuming her natural inversion during her adolescence‚ fights to find a place in the world. After fulfilling partially her aspirations by serving in I World War as an ambulance driver‚ she falls in love with Mary‚ another ambulance driver‚ and for a short while they defy the world with their happiness
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As a human‚ there are a lot of characteristics a human should have‚ but‚ what does it mean to be human? The most part of being human is loneliness. Humans must understand that loneliness is a part of everyone’s life‚ humans must learn how to cope with loneliness‚ and‚ finally‚ the only way to get rid of loneliness is to have love in your life. There is a book‚ which name is Gilgamesh‚ and it is written by Herbert Mason. In this book‚ the author teaches people how to be human from an old story‚ about
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someone’s actions when they have their mindset their dream and they don’t care about what’s happening in reality. Which sometimes causes loneliness in their life because they are pushing people away for that one dream. Loneliness makes dreams impossible to come true like George‚ Lennie‚ and Curley’s wife. They all had dreams that never came true because of loneliness. George’s dream was to own a ranch with Lennie. They planned to have animals like soft things so George told him when they own the
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