The definition of value differs by circumstances, feelings, or experiences. Perhaps someone thinks that community is valuable, and perhaps another suggests that family is valuable because people’s preference can characterize in various ways. Although Malcolm Gladwell’s “Marita’s Bargain” depicts that Marita focuses on education rather than her life, “A Walk to the Jetty” by Jamaica Kincaid illustrates that Annie’s family and her own memories are essential to her. In spite of the differences, both stories portray the scenes that main characters sacrifice each of their own willingness. Thus, based on the two stories, individual’s value decides whether they are required to make sacrifices in order to achieve success.
In “Marita’s Bargain”, Gladwell …show more content…
For evidence, the author describes that Annie is skeptical and considers her mother as hypocrite since her mother is trying to send her to study nurse in England even though her mother keeps emphasizing the true love (Kincaid 33). This can be interpreted that she is more concentrated on her family because being referred “hypocrisy” indicates she is worried about disregard from her parents so that she wants to deny the reality. Furthermore, she feels “ familiar hollow space” inside with respect to departed from her parents and homeland while walking to the jetty by recalling her memories of church, library, doll store, etc (40). This reveals her prediction that she will miss her place, even in process of departure, since empty space represents her depressed yearning for adoration of her family. Hence, with the aid of her country, she is not able to simply leave compared to …show more content…
In “Marita’s Bargain”, although Marita does not live with common life: no chance to hang out with friends, lack of sleeping time, and no time to do her homework like other wealth kids, even like normal class, she immediately decides that she bargains her leisure time and convenience only for the goal, KIPP (Gladwell 13). In other words, this school is not her next best thing. It is the most significant case that cannot compare with any other things and never brings again to her world as she concludes to give up other things. Similarly, in “A Walk to the Jetty”, Kincaid refers “sometimes followed by my address as it would be in England. I did not want to go to England… keeping house for seven unruly men rather than go on with my life as it stood” (Kincaid 31). This implies that Annie is not willing to study abroad at first, but at the same time she would necessarily lose her remarkable time with her family so that she goes to England in which she would arrive in the destination to succeed. Consequently, both are eager to grasp opportunity for high education that follows sacrifices such as giving up their precious time.
Despite “Marita’s Bargain” and “A Walk to the Jetty” depict different values making between the protagonists, they have same focal point by producing sacrifices at last. Gladwell induces Marita to focus on specialized
In “Marita’s Bargain”, Gladwell …show more content…
For evidence, the author describes that Annie is skeptical and considers her mother as hypocrite since her mother is trying to send her to study nurse in England even though her mother keeps emphasizing the true love (Kincaid 33). This can be interpreted that she is more concentrated on her family because being referred “hypocrisy” indicates she is worried about disregard from her parents so that she wants to deny the reality. Furthermore, she feels “ familiar hollow space” inside with respect to departed from her parents and homeland while walking to the jetty by recalling her memories of church, library, doll store, etc (40). This reveals her prediction that she will miss her place, even in process of departure, since empty space represents her depressed yearning for adoration of her family. Hence, with the aid of her country, she is not able to simply leave compared to …show more content…
In “Marita’s Bargain”, although Marita does not live with common life: no chance to hang out with friends, lack of sleeping time, and no time to do her homework like other wealth kids, even like normal class, she immediately decides that she bargains her leisure time and convenience only for the goal, KIPP (Gladwell 13). In other words, this school is not her next best thing. It is the most significant case that cannot compare with any other things and never brings again to her world as she concludes to give up other things. Similarly, in “A Walk to the Jetty”, Kincaid refers “sometimes followed by my address as it would be in England. I did not want to go to England… keeping house for seven unruly men rather than go on with my life as it stood” (Kincaid 31). This implies that Annie is not willing to study abroad at first, but at the same time she would necessarily lose her remarkable time with her family so that she goes to England in which she would arrive in the destination to succeed. Consequently, both are eager to grasp opportunity for high education that follows sacrifices such as giving up their precious time.
Despite “Marita’s Bargain” and “A Walk to the Jetty” depict different values making between the protagonists, they have same focal point by producing sacrifices at last. Gladwell induces Marita to focus on specialized