God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater called on me to reflect on how I assist my community and act towards other individuals in my society. Throughout the novel, Eliot Rosewater has a drive for service in any way possible. Eliot’s overwhelming generosity is so rare to society that people in the novel began to view him as insane or strange. The idea that Eliot is seen as having a mental problem shows that we live in a world where showing kindness to other people who are in our community or may be different from us is out of the ordinary. God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater brought forth the idea of furthering my service in my community, reflecting on how I can improve my character, and being grateful for the life that God has provided me.
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Eliot strikes me as someone who is mindful of how his doings and the effect of his actions on others. Mr. Rosewater regards the good that comes from being nice in such a corrupted world that he describes as “full of suffering” (168) and believes that through his deeds, he can relieve the suffering by buying “decent food and clothing and housing for the poor” (168) as an example. The novel stresses the importance of sincerity, compassion, understanding, and good-nature in a person as not only does it benefit yourself to gain such qualities, but those around you. The qualities that Eliot’s character highlights are all of which I admire. When reading this novel, I thought about my character and how I treated others. I noticed that being selfish or unkind to people around me not only was harmful to others, but negatively reflected who I am as a person. In God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater, characters such as the Senator and McAllister only cared for themselves and opposed helping anyone who was different from them as the Senator once described the poor as “whores, malingerers, pimps, and thieves,”(67) lacking a sense of compassion towards people who are less fortunate. The Senator and McAllister represented how people similar to them led to a corrupted world as they are full of greed and lack the essential qualities that Eliot’s character emphasizes. I would dislike to be someone who would be an addition to bringing down our society and bringing forth its corrupted nature. Therefore, this book pushes me to improve myself. It encourages me be a good-natured person, one who reflect on my actions and words, and further the compassion and sincerity I show onto others. As a person who grew up in a religious environment, the novel made me aim to further my path with Christ, who similarly to Eliot, encouraged others to be good and
...es with contradictory messages about service, not being wholly dedicated to helping David and then realizing in the end that he is more crucial than Harvard. Katie struggled with deciding whether to please her parents and teacher by putting all her effort into getting into Harvard, or to put all her effort into pleasing herself by bringing David to America. Katie was finally able to come to the conclusion that getting into Harvard wasn’t as important as saving someone’s life. Even though it took Katie a few weeks to come to the understanding that helping others is more important than helping yourself in life, she gained a wonderful gift in the end. She gained the gift of a brighter day and the gift of a new brother.
Throughout the novel, F. Scott Fitzgerald uses cruelty to argue that similar dignities exist across very socially different people and that both people of the elitist old money and the contemptible new money are capable of cruelty. In doing so, he wants us to see that wealth, or the culmination of both monetary currency and social currency, can disguise cruelty with a beautiful façade and that to successfully judge a person’s personality, one must look beyond superficial gestures and instead into the inner brutality of the person.
One scene that really exemplifies the reader’s empathy towards Rose is when her and Troy get into a fight while in the backyard. This argument occurs when Troy first tells Rose that he got another woman pregnant. Wilson uses a strong metaphor here to aid him in getting Rose’s point
Alice Walker’s “Roselily”, when first read considered why she decided to use third person. Especially when the story is in such a private line of thought, but then after my second time reading the story I decided that Roselily would not be a strong enough woman to speak about the social injustices that have happened to her. One key part of the story is her new life she will be facing after she is married in Chicago, while comparing it with her old life she is leaving in Mississippi. In Chicago she will no longer have a job, but instead be a homemaker where she will be responsible for the children and home. Also, in Chicago she will become a Muslim because it is what her new husband will want her to be, but back in Mississippi she was of the Christian faith. One of the more positive outcomes of her marriage is that she will go from extreme poverty, to not having to worry about money on a day to day basis.
The Odyssey and O Brother Where Art Thou are considered a representation of each other in some ways and prove more similar than it is commonly thought. Although the overall persona of each portrayal is quite different, it still illustrates the same message. A good lesson to be learned from this comparison is to contemplate your actions to prevent bleak situations from occurring. The characters in these tales had to understand the consequences by experiencing it themselves. Acknowledging the time period that these voyages took place in, they didn't have anybody to teach them proper ways to go about situations.
Eliot found himself opening up again both to love and to the divine. Out of this
William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily tells a story of a young woman who is violated by her father’s strict mentality. After being the only man in her life Emily’s father dies and she finds it hard to let go. Like her father Emily possesses a stubborn outlook towards life, and she refused to change. While having this attitude about life Emily practically secluded herself from society for the remainder of her life. She was alone for the very first time and her reaction to this situation was solitude.
In Eliot’s The Wasteland, It seems as if the more his world is falling apart, the more he wants to break it down and find what really matters or what he really needs to continue living and to truly appreciate life. As he examines his surroundings, he realizes so much of it is in ruins, and that alone makes him feel as though his own life is slipping away, as if he does not even control his own fate. Eliot also realizes how upside down and backward his world is now functioning. Everything that was once right is now wrong, and everything that once seemed moral is not moral any more. Once this is brought to his attention, Eliot decides the only way to overcome this is to do away with the bad and keep only the good, then reforming the old into a new overall positive and secure place of true life.
In a time where the general population is overweight and obsessed with technology, there isn’t much time for the outside world. A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson is about two corpulent men on a journey to walk the Appalachian Trail. At first their tale seems unlikely because of their weight and the fact that they have never hiked a day in their lives. However, it quickly turns into an inspiring story that we, as people, should use to spark our own adventure in the great unknown. Bryson writes A Walk in the Woods to encourage people to live a little and experience the great outdoors, to meet interesting people in it, and to encounter the enthralling wildlife that resides on the Appalachian Trail.
T.S. Eliot had very philosophical and religious meanings behind this poem, and that helped me relate personally very well with this work of his. He used allusions to other poems, letting me make connections with works I have read before. He also used inclusive language and had the same opinion as me portrayed in this work. Based on these, T.S. Eliot has convinced me of his messages in this poem, as well as made this by far my favorite of his.
Being a new married couple is always exciting, sad, and definitely emotional, but of course you are going to go though that all when you're marrying the love of your life. Walking down that aisle with your dad and realizing your whole life is about to change, can be eye opening. They are many great reasons as to why people get married, such as: they surprise you for no reason, but only just to see a smile on your face, they listen to you when you talk, you miss them when they're gone, but you also can still live your life when they're away, too, you can see a future with them, you genuinely want them in your life, you love them as not just a lover, but as a person, you have similar interests and goals, they want the best for you, and they always lift you up, they're okay with helping you when you need a favor, they compliment, and most importantly they get along with your family.
In my final and concluding source, I used Robert B. Heilman, and American educator and critic who has written extensively on English drama and fiction. He begins by not directly jumping into the criticism, but describing how the book is regarded along with other pieces of Eliot’s. He then makes a gentle transition to into the plot line of Silas Marner. He makes a point that in all of Eliot’s novels there is the presence of ethical problems, “derived from her early evangelical training”.
In T.S Eliot's poem, Portrait of a Lady, he gives a glimpse into the upper class of post war society- something rather dispirited and forlorn. It is filled with people from the higher social standings and they are as soulless and empty as the lady in the poem. The upper class was also represented by the main character himself, who is truly unable to connect as a whole to his surroundings. He initially describes the world in the poem as dark, covered in smoke and haze – the scene that is in and of itself a mere half life, the individuality of the characters already swallowed by the abyss of ritual that has devoid of meaning. The truly shocking part that links this poem to the author’s previous poems is the underlying brokenness and the soullessness that the characters seem to inhabit. The main character of t...
T.S. Eliot distinguished what was incomplete about the aesthetics of society and overcame his introverted nature to bring the rest of the world to the realization of what needed to be changed in order to make their lives righteous. He uncovered that many individuals lose their true personalities to thoughts that they have to be a certain way or fit a certain stereotype. His work communicated that one cannot be completely free until they understand and believe in whatever their personal meaning of life is; Eliot found cultural diversity and truth to be of great importance. Eliot taught an important lesson that virtually anything can be accomplished and overcome with the right beliefs, perseverance, and determination to succeed.
Most people, throughout history, have always been quick to judge others and their actions. Author John Milton is no different. In his books of Paradise Lost Milton finds faults in Eve’s actions and blames her for the fall of mankind. He points out specific flaws in her character. Flaws like chosen ignorance, pride, and vanity. They way Milton makes these points in Paradise Lost almost encourages readers to believe that all women possessed these character flaws and are there for the cause of most problems for men.