A Journey To The Center Of The Earth Analysis

The gymnast that competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics, Charles Simmons, once said, “Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power.” This just means that determination is the key to everything. You can’t get through troublesome boundaries without it, and in order to succeed you need it. A Journey To The Center of The Earth is a book that shows that overcoming obstacles with determination can allow you to reap the benefits in the end. In the book A Journey to the Center Of the Earth, the author uses characterization to develop the theme that determination is key to succeed. For example, the character Henry is forced to go on a strenuous journey to the center of the earth. Henry even says, “If the kindly heavens would only remain densely clouded for six more days, we should have to put off our voyage of discovery for another year.” While he may not want to go on this treacherous journey over mountains and through the earth, he does, and when Henry comes out of it he is stronger than before. This

The theme: determination is key to succeed, is something that we use on a daily basis, whether it is to get through the day or to finish an assignment. For instance, if you had a lot of work to complete, showing grittiness would allow you to finish the work and it would benefit you greatly later. Moreover, if you were deciding you may want to try something new, but you weren’t completely sure if you wanted to, so you give up! You would never know what good things could happen to you because you missed out on an opportunity; however, if you showed determination and completed your goal you would be able to reap the benefits. Since the theme is determination I believe that this book would relate to people who want to try new things but are scared too, I think this because they may just need a bit of grit to try something that they might really