right “path” on their journey through life? That is a question that haunts many‚ but Frost wryly notes that the question doesn’t really signify much of anything‚ as it is human nature to glorify the past‚ wrap it in a protective nostalgia‚ and the American way to view one’s self as a trailblazer. So‚ while the poem notes‚ “I took the one less traveled by‚/ And that has made all the difference” (Frost 19-20)‚ the reader is left with the distinct impression that the narrator really took the path almost
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open up to different opportunities‚ it is the initial response by human nature to pick the opportunity that will give you the most benefit. The concept of having to pick between two paths has been identified in the poem “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. There have been times when a person had to choose a specific path that they though they should take but the truth of the matter was it ended up being the wrong choice. In life it is normal for people to make mistakes because we were not created
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This is doubtful: whatever difference the choice might have made‚ it was not made on the basis of a discerned difference between the two paths that opened up before the traveller. The speaker admits in the second and third stanzas that both paths may be equally worn and equally leaf-covered‚ and it is only in his future recollection that he will call one of the two roads‚ the one he took‚ "less travelled by." The "sigh" can be interpreted as one of regret or of self-satisfaction; in either case
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The story “A Worn Path” written by Eudora Welty takes place in the 40’s and is of an elderly Negro woman who makes her way on a familiar journey into town to obtain some medicine for her young grandson. In this story‚ Welty describes scenarios where Phoenix Jackson faces many conflicts‚ while heading to the rural part of town‚ with nature and society all while enduring her physical conflicts that make taking this journey a little more challenging than someone in their earlier years of age. I will
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“Two Kinds”‚ Conflicts “Two Kinds” is written by Amy Tan and it was first published in 1989. This short story tells the relationship between a mother and a daughter and the conflicts between them. The protagonist Jing Mei has both internal and external conflicts. The internal conflict is whether she wanted to be obedient. Her Conflict with her mother based on cultural difference is external. All these conflicts are expressed through setting and symbolism. The setting of the short story is in
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In Eudora Welty ’s "A Worn Path" the conflict was not apparent at the very beginning. What was a poor‚ elderly sick woman doing gallivanting in the forest during the dead of winter? The reason became clear towards the conclusion of the story as the action revealed that the conflict was obtaining the necessary medicine for her grandson. When this conflict became obvious‚ another question came to mind. What kind of society did this woman live in that she had to go all the way from her home in
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any historical fiction or work of literature‚ conflict is a necessary element in the novel A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens adequately develops conflict throughout the novel to build plot and suspense. Conflict is opposition between characters or forces in a work of drama or fiction‚ especially opposition that motivates or shapes the action of the plot. There are two major types of conflict; external and internal. External conflict can occur between two characters (man vs. man)‚ between the character
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Every conflict will resolve but I don’t believe that there’s always a winner. If your positive that there’s a winner in every conflict have you thought of there being a loser too? I’ve looked at both choices and I’m positive there isn’t always a winner. In most stories the conflict ends in a lose/ lose situation. When I was in kindergarten I bit a kid in the back because he wouldn’t let me crawl up the slide at recess. He started to cry and told the teacher. I got in trouble for biting him so
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第十届 杯翻译竞赛原文（英语组） Path Robert Macfarlane Humans are animals and like all animals we leave tracks as we walk: signs of passage made in snow‚ sand‚ mud‚ grass‚ dew‚ earth or moss. The language of hunting has a luminous word for such mark-making: ‘foil’. A creature’s ‘foil’ is its track. We easily forget that we are track-makers‚ though‚ because most of our journeys now occur on asphalt and concrete – and these are substances not easily impressed. ‘Always‚ everywhere‚ people have walked‚
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that time. By the time we reach middle school not only have those goals changed but they are now completely opposite of the career path chosen in elementary school. At the high school level after having experienced working in different part-time jobs‚ we now know what career path we should not choose. Even at college level some still have not decided which career path to take. We all have natural talents‚ certain tasks that come easy to us. When we use our natural talents‚ time moves fast and we tend
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