The Secret Of Life By Walter Mitty

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Hopes, dreams, and goals; we all have them, but how do they push us to do more? This paper will be using three articles The Secret of Life by Walter Mitty, How We Lose Hope and How to Get it Back, and The Wills and Ways of Hope. These will demonstrate how hope can drive one to move forward by providing something to work toward. Hope and dreams allow people to feel like they have something important to work toward and goals provide specific objectives to get there. Hope can keep you alive in the harshest conditions or keep you working to finish an English paper. Hope is littered through out The Secret of life by Walter Mitty but there are moments in the movie that show it better than others. Moses Ma also sees this and writes about it in his

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