Secret Life

answers the main question presented to Miles in the novel. Throughout the story, Miles, Alaska and their friends were all struggling with their own challenges and their question was how to stop the suffering, how to get out of this life of pain, and what is the meaning of life if it produces pain. Point: The death of a loved one often leaves us with unanswered questions, and part of the suffering that comes with death is the fact that these questions will never be answered. Miles suffers…

I credit much of this independence to my English teachers, but I was also significantly impacted by material I picked for myself. Describing a sheltered child with very little control over his own life, Ender’s Game had an enormous impact on me. I related to Ender’s struggle to be an individual in the midst of people telling him what to believe and how to think. After reading this novel, I realized that I had been desperately wanting to be my own…

heart-felt song that yanked on the heart-strings of everyone in America and even made many Americans feel as if they were lonely. Although Mary Shelley wasn’t in a boy band nor did she create a catchy song, she did however create a novel that explored the life of a mad scientist that conducted experiments with zero boundaries and as a result had to suffer the greatest consequence of loneliness that came as a result of his work. Even though Frankenstein was written almost two hundred years ago…

lawyer who fights for the underprivileged and helps create access to educational opportunities for them. As Irish immigrants with limited money and no education, my great-grandparents moved to a three-decker house on Vernon Hill. They sought a better life for their children by stressing the importance of education as the key to social and economic mobility. Three generations later, I am a rising sophomore at the College of the Holy Cross, located within a few miles of this neighborhood.…

determined to make a better life. Over the last couple days, I have discovered many different things. I don’t know what has happened with my life. My wife and I were so happy together at the beginning. I had started my own little garage, which meant that’s she didn’t have to work. We were so in love. We thought about each other every day. But you know what, these kind of things can’t last forever. Two nights ago she was run over and killed instantly.…

stupid, reckless, and it disrespected the land he wanted to live off due to him traveling with very little resources, disappearing from his family, and eventually leading to his fatal death. Christopher McCandless went on adventure to find a purpose of life. His father expected so much from McCandless that he wanted him to go to college and so he did. McCandless was pressured to do what his family wanted and not what he wanted. Therefore, McCandless decided to leave his family and go into the…

For some people, tragedy is what it takes to realize core values and grow. In Jonathan Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Oskar Schell is a gifted nine year old in search of a meaning for his life outside of his central tragedy--the passing of his father in the 9/11 terrorist attacks. More than anything, he cannot escape from his own mind and his obsession with his father: “It doesn't make me feel good when you say that something I do reminds you of Dad” (Foer). Despite his gloom, one…

that her alarmingly uneventful life is reflected in letters and poems, not in known actions. Emily Dickinson’s reputation is a mystery; since she was isolated from the world, she sort of through all her depths through poems. Her poems are known for her morbid taste with death; however, one might view this as insane and miserable, but in every poem, she would…

perfectly illustrates the horrors of being Jewish in such a damaged era. A time of death, a time of destruction, and of war. This unintentional autobiography is a masterfully written piece of history, which describes the life of Anne, her family, and the other residents of their “secret annex”, the place where they remained hidden for two years. In the time spent in the annex, Anne displayed her relationships…

their hard life by helping with chores overnight, such as chopping wood and clearing paths. However, after he is treated with inhumanity from them, the very people he perceived as his kind friends and protectors, he becomes bitter and cruel. “QUOTE WITH ADAM BEING ANGSTY”. In blaming the family’s actions on his appearance, he transfers the blame for his loneliness to his creator, Frankenstein, and becomes warped with a lust for revenge. In a similar way, Frankenstein first seeks out the secrets…