Overcoming Adversity In The Utterly Perfect Murder

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm” (Churchill). The most important thing about growing up is learning to overcome adversity in life. The characters in the stories faced different problems, but all were able to move on and learn from their experiences. In “The Utterly Perfect Murder” the claim is proven because in the story it states, “Remember how he hit my arm? Bruises. I was covered with bruises, both arms; dark blue, mottled black, strange yellow bruises” (Bradbury 20). Plus, it also says, “But Ralph Underhill, forty-eight, had lost most of his hair, and what remained was threadbare gray, black and white. He looked sixty or sixty-five. I was in good health” (Bradbury 23). This shows that Doug was physically harassed as a child, but instead of giving up he persevered on and realized that there is no need to waste his energy and time dwelling on past events. He does this by going to Ralph’s, the bully, house and seeing that he has a better life and is more successful than Ralph. Doug is not the only character to face challenges in his childhood.
Another character who faced adversity in his life was David. One can see this in the story because David states, “And dumb was how the kids treated me. They’d make fun of me every

A quote that shows this is, “Still, stupidly he pecks on / and pecks, as if from under / his own skull- / yet makes no crack . . . / No crack until / he finally cracks, / and kicks and stomps / What a thrill / and shock to feel / his little gaff poke / through the floor” (Swenson lines 23-33)! One knows the quote supports the claim because the poet had a problem they could not get out of. So they kept trying to overcome this problem, and eventually they defeated the problem and overcame it. In this poem the poet uses determination to overcome his