Okonkwo

A challenge is something that stands in your way; it is like a barrier. If you try hard enough, the barrier can be knocked down. Everyone faces challenges, but only the people who rise to them can come out victorious. Although challenges come both big and small, facing them is never easy. Some of them can be resolved by just putting in a little effort and determination. On the other hand, some challenges take much more. At the end of the day, a challenge is an obstacle that will only stop you if…

Fear is seen all throughout the novel The Road By Cormac McCarthy. The world that has become apocalyptic, where only a few people are left alive. A father and a son struggling to survive, while other people commit inhuman actions to survive. Fear is what keeps these people moving forward. They fear disease, death, hunger, and even encountering with another human being. The father priority in the novel was his son. He is afraid of what could happen to his son if anything happened to him. He…

Junior who comes from a poor Indian reservation has always been negative about good things. And positive about bad and depressing things. So did not believe in his potential as a person. Maybe because he thinks he is different. Junior does not have perfect parents or friends. And sometimes that is what makes a person stronger. Better, and allows him to succeed. He had attended a lot of funerals and all the people around him were dying under the influence of alcohol, yet he was looking at them in…

Many things affected Jamestown from growing. The english men wanted to explore other places and came upon Virginia. They were surrounded by Indians, none of them have ever seen a white man before in their life. Before they knew were or if there were any Indians there, they were looking for gold and the Indians saw them in search of something. They told the chief Powhatan and he told them to strike. They fired arrows at the men and then many deaths occurred. The white men expected them to be…

CA Author Recounts Family’s Struggles with Male Anorexia in Memoir William Zemba’s memoir of his anorexic brother reveals more than just a male suffering of a complex disorder. Anorexia nervosa knows no gender. For people who think the disorder impacts only women and girls, such statement would be shocking to them. They will find it hard to believe until they read the book David and the Old Man (WestBow Press, 2010). David and the Old Man throws light on male anorexia, informing readers…

react differently to different situations. LIke if it is a negative conflict people will react badly. On the other hand though if it is positive conflict people are more likely to react positively. One example of a negative/positive conflict is okonkwo and his desire to be better than his dad. This is positive because he has goals. He doesn’t give up when conflicts arise in his acts to be better. This is also negative in many ways. He is willing to drop his family and kill people who get in…

“Maybe our mistakes are what makes our fate.” -Carrie Bradshaw. Throughout reading The Crucible, flaws within each character, and the actions they made based upon those inner flaws, eventually lead to their “downfall”. John Proctor was a highly respected man in the community of Salem, as well as by himself. John Proctor presented himself in the guise of a happy and put together man, hiding his imperfections and weaknesses from the rest of the community at all costs. By the end of the play, John…

Although Gile Corey’s death was caused by being crushed by stones, it was ultimately a little slip up by him that caused his own death. While reading The Crucible, we find out that Giles was a very old man that was blamed for everything in the town. If a cow had been stolen, he was blamed even if the cow had run away. He was married to Martha Corey who gets accused of Witchcraft. In The Crucible, Giles Corey makes the mistake of bringing suspicion to his wife’s name which in turn leads to…

" If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem" - African Proverb (Unknown African Source). In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Darfur Genocide and Syrian Refugee all show that when a person's responsibility when confronted with another suffering is to help them but sometime the situation that we are, and can affect if we are going to help the person or not. Sometime were are in position where we choose not to do something when we know that someone is suffering because we…

When considering the original story of the Cup of Trembling in Isaiah, the cup was meant for the righteous captives of Babylon when there was no hope left for them. The cup was made to redeem the righteous who still had faith in God. When comparing this to Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin, parallels can be made. By giving Sonny the Cup of Trembling the narrator finds redemption through Sonny and therefore, his community. When analyzing the narrator, readers notice that the narrator has a…