Michael J. Fox's Always Looking Up

Failing a test is a hardship that is faced by all individuals, but how this should not be a step backward, but a step forward towards being more resilient, this courage may cause jealousy from other individuals. I believe that human emotions of hardship are essential to human qualities because it can lead to new understandings of how an individual can cope with their surroundings. The idea of resilience is a quality that is represented in a text named Always Looking Up written by Michael J. Fox, he represents the hardship that he faced through the view of being a parent. In addition to this quality, there is another factor that also plays a big part and that is suffering which is an emotion faced by a young adult named Cecil in the short story …show more content…
In facing all the hardship Cecil demonstrates resilience and lets the jokes slide by, but then he is faced by a member named Moose who has been working in the lumbering industry for a long time but he demonstrates a harder crueler character towards Cecil this is shown in the text when the narrator says "Moose devised more cruel and intricate ones" which are the jokes that Moose ways saying to Cecil. Cecil notices this and stays tolerant of Moose jokes that really go beyond the line of joking. When Mr. Anderson asks Cecil how he tolerates all the of the hardship that Moose gives him he says "He was one of those kids kicked around from birth" this quote illiterates that hardship is not a challenge faced later on in life it is really faced a soon an individual is born. Even after facing all of this hardship and life-threatening abuse of Moose, Cecil resilience then collapses when he clearly states to Mr. Anderson "This is the first time I have broken down" this shows that hardship can push and individual to the edges of life where an individual cannot handle it anymore and so to conclude there was a key factor to all of this trouble that Moose was giving Cecil and that is