Fifth grade was the perfect year. Incredible friends, a cute boy who sat across from me in math and the start of my passion for acting. The only possession from fifth grade that I still own is a yearbook, so I cherish the pictures it contains. This yearbook means nothing to my next door neighbor, but it means the world to me because I look back on the yearbook frequently, reminiscing the best memories. As seen in literature, the possessions that we treasure the most commonly mean more to us than what they are truly worth.
Possessions are objects that we accumulate over our lifetime. Photos of our families, stuffed animals from our childhood and the memories that will always live on. When all of our belongings are destroyed mercilessly, it ruins the objects that remind us of our past. The wildfires rage in California and wreck everything in their path; if we are lucky enough to come back to our property and find ourselves with a home to return to, we can count ourselves “extraordinarily lucky” (389). Those who have little to nothing are frequently less likely to complain about what they feel like their missing and they work harder as well. “I count it [what I lost] as nothing...did I depend on it last week?” (394). They can somehow manage to push through their misfortune and …show more content…
They “were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made” (187-188). Tom and Daisy are the kind of people who believe that “the rich get richer and the poor getーchildren. The problem with people like Tom and Daisy is that they never care to stay for long enough to realize how their actions affect the people around them. They wreck everything in their paths and do not care one
Possessions are objects that we accumulate over our lifetime. Photos of our families, stuffed animals from our childhood and the memories that will always live on. When all of our belongings are destroyed mercilessly, it ruins the objects that remind us of our past. The wildfires rage in California and wreck everything in their path; if we are lucky enough to come back to our property and find ourselves with a home to return to, we can count ourselves “extraordinarily lucky” (389). Those who have little to nothing are frequently less likely to complain about what they feel like their missing and they work harder as well. “I count it [what I lost] as nothing...did I depend on it last week?” (394). They can somehow manage to push through their misfortune and …show more content…
They “were careless people, Tom and Daisy – they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together and let other people clean up the mess they had made” (187-188). Tom and Daisy are the kind of people who believe that “the rich get richer and the poor getーchildren. The problem with people like Tom and Daisy is that they never care to stay for long enough to realize how their actions affect the people around them. They wreck everything in their paths and do not care one