Into The Forest Analysis

Life Changes Based On Circumstances Different phases in life can affect people in different ways; it is the circumstances faced that can partly shape people into who they become based on certain changes of in life. Even if where you live stays the same, people grow and change into different people based on certain challenges, even if they do not notice the adjustment right away. In Into The Forest, by Jean Hegland, many things change in Nell and Eva’s, life but even through the hardships, they continue to believe that, in time things will return to normal. A constant modification in life makes people realize the things they miss most once they are gone. Life is not always the same from year to year. Like Nell and Eva’s continuously changing …show more content…
I have two little sisters, and we have to work together to keep life normal while my parents dealing with the death of my grandfather. This sudden death has taught me to step up to the plate and to take care of myself, and to realize that even though I am in the same place, I am still continuing to grow. Growing up can happen in events and not just through time. For example, like Dr. Scott Miller’s lecture on Identity and Place, he found himself in the wilderness when he went several days in the wilderness. He hypothesized that “Apocalypse narratives take us out of the structures and institutions of “civilization” and “into the forest” of ourselves, to open up, explain, and evaluate the various forces that make up our identities. As society dissolves, we find out who we are again. AND we find out what “society” is.” I have to agree, after this experience of being on my own with my sisters more than normal, we started to grow into our own people. We still worked together, but we all did separate things to cope with life that was quickly changing. In the book, Nell resorted to school, and Eva to dance. I was drawn to swimming, my middle sister running, and my youngest sister, she took up drawing. We still got things around the house done like cleaning, cooking, and schoolwork, but it was different than usual, I had to take over during this stressful time and I had to be in charge of things that were foreign to me. I had never had to think about what time my sister had to be at school, how they got there, if they had a lunch packed, and homework done. It was all new, and I actually enjoyed helping my parents and sisters out. I made me grow as a person in just two months, and it let me find