An Essay On No Exit By Jean Martre

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Is hell other people? Yes! Society always judges you, and if you really care about how others look at you or what they say about you, then, for you, hell is other people. However, if you are a stranger, a type of people always stay in their own “world”, everything happened in our real world is not affect them, they doesn’t really care anything, those type of people have no feeling for anything, if you are like them don’t really care about others opinions, then nothing will get in the way of your happiness. How other people look at you matters, but it is just a reference. If you do make it the only thing that matters, then your life will become hell. No Exit by Jean- Paul Sartre takes place in hell, there were three dead people, who judge one …show more content…

Society controls your life, for myself I feel my life is controlled by society. Everyone knows that high school students have to take SAT or ACT to get into college, and other people have to look at our tests and grade it, why do I have to put my future in others hands? Colleges look at us all depending on what score we got for the SAT or ACT, and this becomes the only method to get into a good college. Well, however America is much better than China, in China students only have one opportunity to get into college, if you fail that exam, you have to re-study for one year and take it again, also in China you can choose three colleges you want to go to, if your score didn’t meet any of those school’s score line, then you cannot go to college. This is real! This is how society judges you, this is how society controls you so much, that is how we don’t fulfill our desires and life becomes hell for us. In fact, for myself sometimes I feel the same thing, just like I said before; hell is your relationships with others. Usually I have a nice relationship with everyone in my school, but except one teacher, she was my Chinese teacher, and I can tell from her face that she didn’t like me, I don’t know why, she always bothered me for no reason, and of course she gave me low grades. That was unfair! That entire year was

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