Makayla Lux
Cagley
ERWC
11 November 2014 Value of Life The outlook on life can be viewed in so many different ways. Some see it as a beautiful way to say their last goodbye and others see it as a way to escape life. Throughout the past week we were asked what the real “Value of Life” was. Looking at so many different articles it was clear to me that different people value their lives differently. In Hamlet’s soliloquy, Roger Ebert’s biographical narrative, Kenneth Feinberg’s narrative, and Steve Jobs’ speech they all see the value of life in their own perspectives. Hamlet grew up in a castle in Denmark. Everything was going right in his life, until one afternoon when his father tragically passed away. Just two months later Hamlet’s …show more content…
Ebert had to get his jaw removed because of the cancer. Since then he had multiple surgeries to try to reconstruct his jaw, but all ended with no success. Ebert can not talk and has to write everything he wants to say down. Through all the difficult times Ebert found his special place where he could live a normal life, one where he can truly talk. “Never yet a dream where I cant talk” (Ebert). Its wonderful to know even in hard times you can find a place were you can be whole again. In my dreams I always find myself doing things I would never think possible in real life. In one of my dreams, I was up in heaven visiting my grandma who passed away twelve years ago. Of course that was all a dream, but getting to talk to her and knowing I have been making her proud was the real value of it all. Hamlet says that everything is one big dream. To be dead with horrible dreams, but Ebert states, “Dreams come from us” (Ebert). So we control what we dream and how they go. Hamlet shouldn't be scared that he will live the same dream after he dies. Ebert straight out says that they come from us, so hamlet should be able to manipulate his dreams into something he wants to live after he dies. Ebert values his life and is living it to its full extent because he never really knows when he’ll take his last
Cagley
ERWC
11 November 2014 Value of Life The outlook on life can be viewed in so many different ways. Some see it as a beautiful way to say their last goodbye and others see it as a way to escape life. Throughout the past week we were asked what the real “Value of Life” was. Looking at so many different articles it was clear to me that different people value their lives differently. In Hamlet’s soliloquy, Roger Ebert’s biographical narrative, Kenneth Feinberg’s narrative, and Steve Jobs’ speech they all see the value of life in their own perspectives. Hamlet grew up in a castle in Denmark. Everything was going right in his life, until one afternoon when his father tragically passed away. Just two months later Hamlet’s …show more content…
Ebert had to get his jaw removed because of the cancer. Since then he had multiple surgeries to try to reconstruct his jaw, but all ended with no success. Ebert can not talk and has to write everything he wants to say down. Through all the difficult times Ebert found his special place where he could live a normal life, one where he can truly talk. “Never yet a dream where I cant talk” (Ebert). Its wonderful to know even in hard times you can find a place were you can be whole again. In my dreams I always find myself doing things I would never think possible in real life. In one of my dreams, I was up in heaven visiting my grandma who passed away twelve years ago. Of course that was all a dream, but getting to talk to her and knowing I have been making her proud was the real value of it all. Hamlet says that everything is one big dream. To be dead with horrible dreams, but Ebert states, “Dreams come from us” (Ebert). So we control what we dream and how they go. Hamlet shouldn't be scared that he will live the same dream after he dies. Ebert straight out says that they come from us, so hamlet should be able to manipulate his dreams into something he wants to live after he dies. Ebert values his life and is living it to its full extent because he never really knows when he’ll take his last