Everyone experiences periods of self-doubt throughout one's lifetime, but some have taken risks to fulfill their loss of confidence. The two passages "Breaking Through Uncertainty-Welcoming Adversity" by Jim McCormick and "Neighbours" by Lein Chao both involve narrators that have experinced some sort of life-changing event that would have caused others to live in fear, but they have conquered themselves through taking risks. Through taking risks they have been able to regain self-confidence and maturity.The passage, "Breaking Through Uncertainty-Welcoming Adversity", demonstrates the greater benefit recieved from taking risks by involving a life-on-the-line risk and how he was able to overcome fears under a lot of pressure. In "Breaking Through Uncertainty-Welcoming Adversity", the narrator undergoes skydiving and experiences a …show more content…
She encounters an old couple and is invited to have dinner with them. During their meal, Sally has a need to buy a vacuum cleaner and the old couples coincidentaly have a refurbished model that works fine. Sally recieves it for free and feels overjoyed for encountering two nice elderlies that could aid her in her period of trouble. However, as their conversation head towards a sensitive topic of those living on welfare, Sally has experienced a similar lifestyle as them and argues that "you won't like me either"(39). She explains how there are plentyof poor people that may seem terrible on the outside, but really hurt on the inside. She took the risk of sharingher own private tradgedy that led her to her current liestyle where sometimes she " walked three hours instead of taking a bus" in order to save enough money for food. As Sally takes the risk of exposing her true self to strangers she is able to feel a connection between other homeless, poor people who may have experienced a tragedy in their life, just like
When individuals face obstacles in life, there is often two ways to respond to those hardships: some people choose to escape from the reality and live in an illusive world. Others choose to fight against the adversities and find a solution to solve the problems. These two ways may lead the individuals to a whole new perception. Those people who decide to escape may find themselves trapped into a worse or even disastrous situation and eventually lose all of their perceptions and hops to the world, and those who choose to fight against the obstacles may find themselves a good solution to the tragic world and turn their hopelessness into hopes. Margaret Laurence in her short story Horses of the Night discusses the idea of how individual’s responses
Before setting out, she gave herself a list of rules she had to follow so that her experience would be as real as it could be. Her first rule was when looking for a job she couldn't mention the skills she had learned from her education. Second, she had to take the highest paying job that was being offered to her. Third, she had to live in the cheapest accommodation that she could, providing that it was a safe environment. Going hungry and being homeless weren't ever able to be options.
Her realization that she is not alone in her oppression brings her a sense of freedom. It validates her emerging thoughts of wanting to rise up and shine a light on injustice. Her worries about not wanting to grow up because of the harsh life that awaits her is a common thought among others besides the people in her community. As she makes friends with other Indians in other communities she realizes the common bonds they share, even down to the most basic such as what they eat, which comforts her and allows her to empathize with them.
The experience not only gives Josie a new perspective on her career path and the unpleasant, harshness of being in the spotlight she has always craved. It also forces her character to take a step back, re-examine her life and decide not to continue to seek validation in the affections or appeals of others.
She shows the nature of power and how it slowly slips away from the person’s grasp. First it corrupts the mind of a person and changes them, and then it slips away from their hands leaving them with nothing but arrogance, pride and
“…people need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want" (79). Both protagonist learned about the dangers of fear through the tribulations of their journey. Although life may constantly though curveballs our way, it is important to learn how to take risks. One must to have the audacity to continue on. Odysseus, a courageous Greek hero, would not have made it very far if he was apprehensive of taking risks. Instead, he sought
... She comforts the Wilsons, feeds the starving nameless faces when she barely has enough for her own family, works together with the Wainwrights, and as the novel closes she is still directing her assistance to those who are in need any way she can, by helping the starving man and taking control of the situation. She feels that as long as she can hold on to some part of the family, she will see to it that they keep on going.
Individuals are prone to fear regardless of whether it relates to something as minute as choosing between clothes, or it can be something life altering, such as making a bold decision to leave home in search of a better life. In the memoir, “The Iron Road”, Al Purdy describes his fear as it relates to his future in his younger days. Al Purdy describes his life when he was just a seventeen year old boy wanting to leave home in search of a Job. He was quick in his decision to leave his parents, rather judicially so in terms of his confidence to climb aboard a train without the consent of his parents. The reader can feel sympathetic for a teen who is unaware of the potential hardships of life, when
The tale of Janie crawford a woman who has growed up looking for love and finding who she is as a person. Janie has spent her life searching for true love, and she has came close a couple of times let’s see how it goes.Sacrifice is an important obstacle everyone goes through. Janie deliberately sacrifices her individuality throughout the story for the well beings of others which establishes the theme of individuality.
After getting the apartment on 116th Street, Lutie didn’t know what her next step would be. She didn’t know how long she would stay there. They had just enough money to pay rent, buy food and clothes. Being locked into poverty enables Lutie to see a future.
She also used a comparison, “Like a little girl, she smooths back her dirty hair and proudly puts it on” (5). She used the comparison to make the reader realize that although she is homeless, she is not any different than anyone
...The significance of Estelle's need to explain her position to the listener, despite her fears, she sees the risk being worth it as opposed to the alternative of isolation form human interaction, which not only unveils Estelle's vulnerability but in turn gives Estelle credibility ("I Just Don't Understand It." Gale).
“Even though we face difficulties of today and tomorrow I still have a dream”- Martin Luther King.At times human beings face difficulties in life.These difficulties can either change us for the better or the worse. In the novel “The Outsiders” by S.E.Hinton we see how different people deal with different difficulties in their lives and how they’ve learned and grown from those experiences whether it would be positive or negative. People learn and grow from challenges and often people change from these experiences.
Through the use of internal conflicts, irony, dialogue, and foreshadowing, the author teaches the reader that things are not always as they seem. The main character of this story is Peter Williamson. This pilot has lost his leg, which causes him to struggle with internal conflicts throughout the story. Here is an example before he jumped into the English Channel (or so he thought),“He looked at his altimeter. Twenty-one thousand.
The point of view she expressed through out the whole text, was her own. She was able to keep readers insight of the psychoanalytic theory the story has. The actions the protagonist had in the story showed us how it affected her adult self, and how the issue developed a rebel over time. Even after years from when the recurring events took place, her actions as a child had an effect on both mother and daughter. This theory gives readers the idea that things that happen to people during childhood can contribute to the way they later function as