Adversity: The Art Of Resilience

(Insert Title Here) Both adversity and resilience occur on spectrum. Adversity; from feeling a need to prove a point to abuse, resilience; none being so resilient that one becomes arrogant, closed-minded, and insensitive. Hara Estroff Morano outlines and informs about resilient people in her article “The Art of Resilience”. The boy from “Untitled” by anonymous is not resilient in any way; W. D. Wetherell in “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” is the “prime example” of someone who is resilient; and Jacques Lusseyran in “The Blind in Society” is the extreme resilient. The boy from “Untitled” crumbles when faced with adversity; he is not resilient at all. Before he would draw; “and it wasn’t anything”, and he would stare into the sky; “It would be only him and the sky and the things inside him

Lusseyran develops excessive amounts of “survivor’s pride”(Morano 7). He boasts about his blindness. How “barely ten days after the accident that blinded me”, he made a basic discovery; unlike most people who take longer (Lusseyran 56). Basic discoveries are not all that he claims to have made quickly; he also boasts about all the “great discoveries” he makes (57). He becomes arrogant and insensitive of others’ own struggles. He thinks that if he can survive being blind and the Holocaust then others can conquer their small problems. Being so closed-minded he thinks things such as; “If someone does not accept this explanation, which is the only correct one… he does not know the all-important truth”(63). One of the techniques that Morano brings up for reframing is to see “how heroic your acts were as a child”(7). Lusseyran takes this to heart; seeing himself as a true hero who should “show the world”(64). He does not take into account that, yes he is strong and resilient but, he is not the most important or only person in the world who has faced