To Love The Marigold Analysis

Sections IV and V of The Impossible Will Take a Little While had a multitude of deep, interesting, and entertaining pieces. Section IV focused on the use of imagination and creativity to better situations in unexpected, often unbelievable ways. Section V focused on people taking action and the resulting effect of a community bringing about change. Although the decision was difficult, I selected a favorite piece from each section to focus on. In “To Love the Marigold” Susan Griffin discusses the use of imagination with regards to hope and our current situations. In “We Are All Khaled Said”, Wael Ghonim responds to the brutal murder of Khaled Said and ultimately brings together segments of the Egyptian community and initiates unexpected change. …show more content…
She goes on to explain how sometimes, especially in the modern age, it is difficult to find oneself not feeling hopeless; however, she counters this by explaining how people can maintain hope in the darkest of times, specifically citing the action of Robert Desnos prior to the scheduled gas chamber execution of him and several others in a Holocaust concentration camp. She uses his creative and successful approach of optimistically reading the palms of those scheduled to die in order to illustrate how imaginative thinking can dramatically alter one’s circumstances and the circumstances of the world at large. She also makes sure to emphasize that imagination is a positive, so long as it is not the type of imagination where one loses touch with reality and attempts to separate themselves from their circumstances as opposed to improving them. (To Love a