Thesis: According to Hanh and Berrigan, communities of resistance are groups of people dedicated to demonstrating that life is possible, and that serve as a place where one can resist against losing one's true self to different distracting elements of the world. In “The Raft is Not the Shore” by Thich Nhat Hanh and Daniel Berrigan they both discuss the importance of “communities of resistance” in life, and the pivotal purpose they serve in society. Hanh first attempts to define what a community of resistance is by laying out what he believe is a foundational aspect of their existence: “a community that shows abundance of life, that is an example of the wholeness of life, would be an eloquent sign of the possibility of the future,” (Hanh 124).
