“Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.” This quote by William Arthur Ward demonstrates the profound impact that adversity has on everyday individuals. Furthermore, this impact is especially visible in the texts, “Divisadero” and “The Rose That Grew From Concrete”, but also in our everyday lives, such as in the devastating form of climate change. Adversity shapes an individual’s identity in one of two ways: by building character strength or by breaking it.
Michael Ondaatje’s novel, “Divisadero”, illustrates the experience of a woman, in nineteenth-century-France, overcoming her adversity. Her unfortunate circumstance comes in the form of losing her provider, her husband, to prison, and “now, with him in jail, she could hardly keep up”. …show more content…
The world, at present, is facing a large adversity, climate change; it is larger and more dangerous than anything that it has ever faced in its entirety of human history. For instance, the recent hurricanes in the Caribbean and parts of the United States that have completely wrecked the existing infrastructures, down to its foundation, but more than that, it will have a lasting impact on the regular individuals, especially on the children, that reside there. Regrettably, these children, whose minds are developing, could be suffering from a trauma, after this experience, and for the parents of these vulnerable beings, ensure that the spaces their children are in, are safe, experience the feeling of failure. Moreover, this disaster has truly exemplified the need to implement strategies to combat climate change to prevent further unfortunate occurrences, but we must cooperate, as a whole, to have any hope of success. Finally, climate change is a global adversity; it is the type of adversity that we must combat, as a whole, or be perished, divided by our own
Michael Ondaatje’s novel, “Divisadero”, illustrates the experience of a woman, in nineteenth-century-France, overcoming her adversity. Her unfortunate circumstance comes in the form of losing her provider, her husband, to prison, and “now, with him in jail, she could hardly keep up”. …show more content…
The world, at present, is facing a large adversity, climate change; it is larger and more dangerous than anything that it has ever faced in its entirety of human history. For instance, the recent hurricanes in the Caribbean and parts of the United States that have completely wrecked the existing infrastructures, down to its foundation, but more than that, it will have a lasting impact on the regular individuals, especially on the children, that reside there. Regrettably, these children, whose minds are developing, could be suffering from a trauma, after this experience, and for the parents of these vulnerable beings, ensure that the spaces their children are in, are safe, experience the feeling of failure. Moreover, this disaster has truly exemplified the need to implement strategies to combat climate change to prevent further unfortunate occurrences, but we must cooperate, as a whole, to have any hope of success. Finally, climate change is a global adversity; it is the type of adversity that we must combat, as a whole, or be perished, divided by our own