You should always make the choice that feels right to you. When you make decisions you should trust your instincts. Eli the main character from, The Compound, written by S.A. Bodeen, did this well. He knew his dad was trying to hide something from him. When he started finding clues in his dad´s office, he started to realize his dad has been keeping secrets from his own family for the last six years while they were in the compound.…
Many casualties can be attributed to Mother Nature. The novels Alive, by Piers Paul read, and Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer, exemplify survival, hope, and perseverance as the characters struggle against the elements. Survival is inspired by hope, and hope is derived from people and objectives. Perseverance is what takes people the extra mile to achieve the goal of survival.…
Hope: A feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. Adolf Hitler was the darkness and he would overpower as many candles as he could when he had the chance. But, even though he was getting stronger, some candles wouldn’t be overtaken. As the stronger candles spread light, other candles were brought back and were able to defy the darkness in hope that the light would spread everywhere. The book “Daniel’s Story” tells the struggle of a young Jewish boy growing up in Germany throughout World War II.…
Hope is a feeling of expectation or desire for a certain thing to happen. In The Road, by Cormac McCarthy, the Man and Boy are forced to rely on hope and persistency in order to survive in the apocalyptic world they’re living in. Throughout the novel, there are many symbols to represent hope; such as the bunker, the ocean, and the fire. Having hope can give one the ability to persevere through hardship. First, the bunker gives them hope to overcome starvation.…
Hope is an optimistic state of mind that brings the feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen. Throughout the novel, Ellen endures many life events that leave her feeling regret, disappointment, and sadness, but this does not stop her from finding hope however she can. For instance, when Ellen is forced by her grandmother to work in the cotton fields at only 11 years old, Ellen gets through the day by taking notes on how she wants her new family to be. “Quote here”. Ellen has a rough life but nevertheless, she always finds hope in whatever she is doing.…
“Hew out of the mountain of despair to a stone of hope, and you can make your life a splendid one.” This is my grandfather’s favorite quote. He kept saying that to me when he tried to pass on his life experience to me. Not paid much attention to it, I never thought that hope is the power to wake up my sleepy potentials. It was not until have seen the Shawshank Repetition directed by Frank Darabont that I realized how the hope can motivate me when I suffered.…
Have you ever lost all hope or seen anyone who was like that? This is about those who refused to lose all hope no matter what happened. Hopes, dreams, and goals allow people to come together and help one another achieve their goals. This is represented in Of Mice and Men by how George is always going out of his way to help Lenny, then by how Candy offered help and $350 towards them getting the farm. In War Dance they all came together to win the dancing competition.…
Four knows from his own experience not to give up hope. Once hope is gone nothing is left. When hope is gone there is no longer anything to fight or live for. Hope is the reason, the push to keep on living. The belief that things will improve if you keep on going.…
Hope makes people naïve which adjusts their standpoint on the world and the outcome being impractical goals. Lakshmi got ill and Mumtaz took care of Lakshmi, but she took it as a sign of affection as appose to Mumtaz trying to get her back to work. "I love her like a mother, for giving me the medicine that will stop the fever and the sweating and the chills and the shaking. I love her for not throwing me out on the street, for caring for me." (Page 190, McCormick)…
Grit: Perseverance and Passion for Long-Term Goals - Grit is not related positively to IQ but was highly correlated with Conscientiousness in Big Five Personality. Why is this so? What similarities do they share? Curious to know how this link to meaning in life? Does more grit correlate with more meaning in life?…
A Not-So-Silver Lining The stigma of mental illness is as follows: crazy eyes, a lot of violence, mood swings every two seconds, and not a lot of friends and family to help. But, there are multiple factors and explanations for why a person is the way they are, and why they developed the mental illness that they did. Pat Solitano, a middle-aged white man with a lot of great qualities, was a happy-go-lucky kind of guy. He had a wife, a great job as a high school history teacher, and was living comfortably in the middle class.…
Hailsham: Never Let The Memories Go Hope is something that can both save us and sink us depending on the situation. It is what gets us through the hard times and is the light within darkness. In Never Let Me Go the school Hailsham gives it students a good life and gives them hope even though they inevitably face a dark future. Some will say that giving their students hope did more harm than good, but to disagree.…
A curse put upon one, can also be known as the blessing hope. It is a desire for something to happen or a feeling of trust. To many people hope is seen as a blessing, yet it is a curse one can not see. It is put upon an individual influencing the hopefulness for a certain thing to happen regrading the possibilities of it actually happening. Hope is a unsighted curse since life does not always turn out the way one may want it to be, it can blind individuals senses, and hope has no limits.…
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A plethora of controversy and discourse exists on the metaphorical glass of life and how we should view its contents, whether it be through a “pessimistic” or “optimistic” eye. However I do not think these two titles should be the only ideas viewed within this topic. There remains one aspect of contemplation that represents itself untapped. It is the way in which we create and uphold hope. Hope often caresses and carries its owner, but only occasionally does it offer consistently positive effects.…