Past experiences can influence ideas, perspectives, and emotions of a person. Based on the type of experience, it could cause a positive impact or a negative impact. While it can also be used as guide in order to face many other difficulties or be used as wall that could prevent a person from escaping its dark cloud. For instance the novel, Beast of No Nations by Uzodinma Iweala, depicts the experiences of a young soldier boy name, Agu. His experiences influenced him from acting as a normal kid with a large imagination of purity to a soldier with the imagination of blood and killing. Agu, is a small boy who lived in a small village, that was proclaimed as a neutral country during the war. He lived with his father, mother, and two siblings, in a small house, and constantly used his imagination to keep himself entertained and amused. But the one thing, that he did not expect to lose, was his imagination, to be replaced with brutal and cruel thoughts. None of this …show more content…
He wanted to use his knowledge and new skills to seek for revenge. For instance, when the group hijacked a military truck, the Commandant pressured and influenced Agu to kill the soldier that survived. Agu hesitated, but the Commandant’s reminders of telling him that it was them who killed his brother and father, he was one of the ones that ripped his family away from him. This only caused for Agu to feel more desperate to seek for revenge, making him slit the soldier neck. Furthemore, the experience of having to see his mother leave, caused him become desperate. When they reached at a town, he saw a mother and her daughter. Instantly he was reminded of his own mother, he ran to her and held her and cried, calling her mother. Until he saw her struggling trying to escape, that was when he noticed it was not his mother. His loneliness and desperation influenced him to take a cruel action and rape her, then shot
Ultimately, it goes without saying that the past is a place we cannot revisit and because of this every event, that have happened in life before, will make an influence on it. Moreover, some things might change person's life in drastically way. However, people should understand that everything what happened in the past - stays in the past, and there is no reason to worry about bad occasion that already gone and relieve all negative emotions again.
His observations of surrounding nature changes after a few ironic incidents occur. The role he plays reverses itself and he finds that he is merely a scared child who is lost and alone in a big scary world. While at Greasy Lake, he is involved in a terrible fight where he almost kills another person, and attempts the heinous crime of rape onto an innocent girl. As he begins to gang rape an innocent victim he is forced to run for his own safety when more people show up at the scene. Ironically, within minutes he converts from being the bad guy, forcing himself on an unwilling victim, to becoming a scared kid hiding in the woods from attackers. While...
about the war and his lack of place in his old society. The war becomes
He begins to think how he had just killed a man and how him and his friends had tried to attempt rapping a girl. As he is walking in the lake he touches a dead body and gets freaked out even more and began to yell. Then the girl hears him and scream there they are and began to throw rocks into the lake trying to hit the narrator. He then hears the voice of Bobby who bought him relief and sorrow at the same time. He felt relief because he discovers that the Bobby is not dead and sorrow because the Bobby was alive and wanted to kill him and his friends.
He arrives back at his town, unused to the total absence of shells. He wonders how the populations can live such civil lives when there are such horrors occurring at the front. Sitting in his room, he attempts to recapture his innocence of youth preceding the war. But he is now of a lost generation, he has been estranged from his previous life and war is now the only thing he can believe in. It has ruined him in an irreversible way and has displayed a side of life which causes a childhood to vanish alongside any ambitions subsequent to the war in a civil life. They entered the war as mere children, yet they rapidly become adults. The only ideas as an adult they know are those of war. They have not experienced adulthood before so they cannot imagine what it will be lie when they return. His incompatibility is shown immediately after he arrives at the station of his home town. ”On the platform I look round; I know no one among all the people hurrying to and fro. A red-cross sister offers me something to drink. I turn away, she smiles at me too foolishly, so obsessed with her own importance: "Just look, I am giving a soldier coffee!"—She calls me "Comrade," but I will have none of it.” He is now aware of what she is
Accordingly, although Ruth shelters her children from her painful past, she reconciles her experiences and becomes a wiser and stronger mother to raise her accomplished children. Ruth’s memories reveal a mother’s triumph in providing an optimistic outlook for her kids. Similarly, when people reflect on their past, especially via their defeat and agony, they can gain wisdom by understanding how problems developed and how people approached them. These reflections also help individuals understand who they are today and where they are going tomorrow. Lessons from the old days can empower them to adjust their present behaviors and to reach their goals in a brighter prospect.
There is a saying that goes “don’t live in the past” because things will always get better in the future and that you should let time work itself out. People often think of their pasts and let that dictate their future, which in many cases keeps people from achieving their full potential. People become blinded by their pasts and the good memories they’ve had which turns to them seeking the same thing to satisfy themselves because they’ve become comfortable and do not want change. They may not want change because they are scared of what is to come or because of getting hurt again like they have in previous experiences. A prime example of this is Erykah Badu’s song “Bag lady” as it explains how people should let go of their pasts and look to the future.
...e Spain’s rifle. He cries out for his dead father as a young child would, but makes an adult decision to run away from everything and his family.
The situation that I have thought of is, when I was on the jury for juveniles who committed first offenses. While I was listening to the lawyers depend these kids, I looked on the list and saw a familiar name. The name was a person I went to kindergarten with. She was being convicted of shoplifting. I could not believe it. All the thoughts of that soft, kind-hearted person went out the window. My behaviors were changed by the environmental influences. My thoughts were overcome with coldness. I felt that she choose her situation. Somewhere along she became part of the wrong crowd and never changed her situation. I also think that the situation changed what I thought of her.
does not wish to strike down his mother, but realises that he must. The defense
...ing her life, he is able to control something and finally rid himself of some of his torments.
... sins, but she can’t take back what she did so she will forever have blood on her hands. This guilt and all of the lies she has told is giving her true trepidation and in the end she decided to end her terror by taking her life.
... He saves her from harm and delivers her to the shore where he is verbally attacked by her quite worthless guardian. As he attempts to flee, he is shot in the chest and when he eventually recovers his pity and love for humans is absent to his impulses. This is an extremely moving scene because it shows the passage of his soul from good to evil for the final time.
My childhood was somewhat gloomy due to an alcoholic father; verbal and physical abuse was part of my upbringing. An event that I remember that shaped my life was when I failed the first grade. As a child I could perceive it, and these events helped to reinforce and mold future behaviors. During my teenage years I had much difficulty with love relationships even at times having inferiority complex after a breakup.
...ic motives with his goals. This is boldly highlighted towards the end of the film, where Gru realizes that his desire to be with his three daughters and become a good father, an intrinsically motivated goal, outweighs his desire to be recognized as the world’s greatest villain.