The Deafening Silence Analysis

Many who have endured hard times, find resiliency and working towards a goal, transcending past adversity, by thinking of it as a temporary state. In the article, “‘How People Learn To Become Resilient” it states, “Like Garmezy she soon discovered that not all the at risk children reacted to stress in the same way. Two thirds of them developed serious learning or behavior problems by the age of ten … But the remaining third developed into confident, competent, and caring young adults” (Konnikova). Two thirds of the total kids come from the same background, however they reacted differently. Two thirds of that group remained troubled kids and continued to let life take its toll on them.However, the other third of kids were resilient and didn’t …show more content…
Nancy Johnson, bullied at a young age, did not use her voice, therefore overruled by her bullies. However, she began to continue to use her voice, she became resilient and did not that the bully win, but instead she found her voice. She makes a living off a something she hadn’t used in a while, due to the adversity of a bully, her voice: “He was nine years old with an alcoholic mother and an absent father. Each day, he would arrive at school with the exact same sandwich: two slices of bread with nothing in between … Each day without fail, he would walk in with a smile on his face and a ‘bread sandwich’ tucked into his bag” (Konnikova). While several individuals, move past the adversity in their lives, others let the adversity become a permanent , life defining experience, an experience in which they may never move …show more content…
The article, “Untitled” suggest “And when we lay out alone and look at the sky it was big and blue and all of everything but he wasn’t anymore he was square inside and brown and his hands were stiff and he was like everyone else…it was stiff like everything else” (Anonymous). The boy in the poem had a voice at one point, showing his true self. However, criticized for being his true self, he fell under pressure becoming apart of the crowd, square brown and stiff. In “Grass” by Allen Wheelis, he describes his experience “During the next two weeks I often played with my friends but never fully lost myself in play and was secretly glad when school started and life settled down to a routine again. I was more quiet than before and better behaved, and when next report cards were distributed I had a nearly perfect score in conduct” (Wheelis). Even though, the author may have overcame the challenge of cutting this endless acres of grass, a foot high, after this experience he was not able to go back to his life. He became custom to working and having a schedule, he was not able to enjoy the company of his friends, like how he use to. This became an experience that defined his life, he let this experience control him, since he was not able to overcome and be his true self, playful and