A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune, by Chris Crutcher and One Friday Morning, by Langston Hughes

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The stars perish only to reform into more radiant heavenly bodies; humans encountering quarrels is the path to a greater expectation, for the future and beyond. As Life evidently offers many challenges, obstacles in the early times cannot indeed foreshadow the turns of the tides of Destiny. And since History tends to draw its parallel upon fictional tales of valor, it is stories such as “A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune” and “One Friday Morning” that manifests how iron can be burdened with fire, but still constitutes itself into steel. It is logical to suggest that the core reason for the stories above, written by Chris Crutcher and Langston Hughes respectively, are aimed to demonstrate that courage against impediments can turn the future of one’s journey, as alleged in “A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune” and “One Friday Morning” where Angus Bethune and Nancy Lee faced challenges with courage during their journeys that made them stronger in the end.

In the story “A Brief Moment in the Life of Angus Bethune”, Angus Bethune is pressed by the urgency of making a decision which would deeply influence his future, and through this process to characterize himself into a stronger person. As in the story, streams of terror knocked on Angus’ mind several times in attempts to force him surrender, as depicted in the passage: “My fear is nearly paralyzing, to tell the truth, but I’ve faced this monster down before—though, admittedly, he gets more fierce each time—and I’ll face him down again. When he beats me, I’m done” (4). In the depiction, Angus is confronting his last chance to “escape” the terror, which would in turn obstruct him from becoming stronger. But as he surely understands that this might well be the last ch...

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...ence is structured in an ordinary tone and word choice, the strength of the speaker (Nancy Lee) is shining through every word. Now after a quarrelsome beginning, Nancy Lee has transformed herself into a stronger being in the end.

In final conclusion, one could confidently argue that Fate is unjustifiable, but Fate is in no sense impossible to defeat. To break the bonds and limitations of Life, the handiest tool is the courage among the stragglers. In Reality, there are factors that are outside the physical variances; and that is the strength within our minds, which aims not to those material benefits, but the refinement of our Bravery through the journeys. And this goal should be the highest pursue of a wise person, who must care little of the difficulties posted by external forces, and conquer those difficulties with high spirits and become a stronger being.

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