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“Although tragedy and loss are regrettable commonplace, we aren’t measured by what happens to us but rather by how we respond to it” written by Steve Pemberton in A Chance in the World. This is my favorite quote from the novel. A Chance in the World was an eye opening book for me to read, and I enjoyed every minute of it. Many things stood out to me in the book, one being that each chapter would start with a quote from a different book, and that related back to how much books saved his life. Another thing that stood out to me was how throughout the chapter he would ask himself questions, and those questions were never answered but it was like he was sharing his thoughts with reader. The reason these book was eye opening was because my father, gave up his parental rights at age five because of drugs, and even though our situations are only slightly similar hearing his story and how he overcame all his struggles made me realize how I can get over my own problems with the past. The novel was a tear jerker from reading how the Robinsons abused him, how he first struggled with college and how each side of his family had so much pain and sorrow. Steve Pemberton overcame every …show more content…
Some key things being do not ever give up faith or hope, and do not let anyone tell you your own potential, you make your own dreams. By the end of the book, the greatest thing he learned was the everyone has a past but that does not define your future. If that was the case, Steve would not be the person he is today. He learned how to fight back against life. Throughout the novel Steve wanted to find out more about his family and their past. That is where he learned his biggest resolution. That his past or his families past make him who is his. In coming to realize that, was because there was so much pain and sorrow in both his families bring it up would not change his past, and or the future he learned to put it behind
Having a better mindset could have changed his whole life around like the author Wes Moore. Carol S. Dweck states, “Other students believe that intelligence is something through effort and education. They don’t necessarily believe that everyone has the same abilities or that anyone can be as smart as Einstein, but they so believe that everyone has the can improve their abilities”(1). I believe if the other Wes Moore or even the author Wes Moore knew about how they could manage their mindsets they both could have done good and not had to been going through rough paths because both of them didn’t know how to behave and stay out of trouble at the beginning of the book Wes Moore states how both Wes Moore where dong bad and causing problems that disappointed their loved ones. Maybe if they were a little interested in changing their lives they would have tried better to try to change the mindsets they had, with that being said having a growth mindset, which is a type of person that is willing to learn stuff because they want to and not because they have to. I were to be in there situation I would have been thinking positive and proving people that you’re not that bad guy everyone thinks you are, that you could change for a good person especially to
If my life had no purpose, no individuality, and no happiness, I would not want to live. This book teaches the importance of self expression and independence. If we did not have these necessities, then life would be like those in this novel. Empty, redundant, and fearful. The quotes above show how different life can be without our basic freedoms. This novel was very interesting and it shows, no matter how dismal a situation is, there is always a way out if you never give up, even if you have to do it alone.
The ending of the novel was inspiring. The author suggests the reader to look into great novels, and even supplies a list of novels a personally suggests. He ended with a very ...
We can transform our life by altering our thinking process, and the stories by Shirley Jackson and Chris Abani emphasize on changing the thought. Shirley Jackson’s story, “The Lottery”, conveys a great ironic tradition of a certain American community at some time in history, probably not that old. Similarly, “The Lottery” by Chris Abani also explores a similar tragic story about a loss of a life, and presents the life and survival as a lottery, which is never certain. In these regards, both these stories express a common theme of a traditional belief and a tragic end of a life but in a very contrasting fashion and settings.
Though most have a desire to leave earth and enter eternal life peacefully, without any sorrow, the departure of a loved one can be despondent. Previously in 2011, my grandfather passed away due to heart failure. It was an arduous battle, not only for my grandfather, but also for the close knit family surrounding him. His battle with heart failure enabled me to create unforgettable memories with him, even in his final days. Laughing together, playing together and learning significant values about life together made me grow to become a more mature and wise person. Therefore, my personal experience is entwined with empathy because the death of my grandfather has made me realize how dismal it is to lose someone important. It also interplays with self-interest because I have grown as an individual to deal with the ache that is attached to losing a family member. It has helped me to realize how beautiful the gift of life is. Stephen Dunn, the poet behind Empathy and my story are connected because they both involve the feeling of empathy for others and the self-interest of an individual. They help us to grow and learn about ourselves and the emotions of
Literature has always been very grasping to readers a reason why literature is grasping to many people is because of the way it mirrors the characters similar to the reader 's personality. When readers can relate to what the character is going through and what their feeling the author has done a good job in character development and telling a story. Two stories that are really good at relating and answer these two questions, Do character 's shoulder or dodge their obligations? What do their choices say about them? The two pieces of literature is the short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson and the article, Would Our Two New Lives Include a Third? Written by Ronda Kaysen. Then I will state about the controversial obligation that I feel
Boethius' “The Consolation of Philosophy” demonstrates many thoughts and ideas that Boethius had while he was imprisoned at Ravenna. Boethius wrote of his “conversations” with lady Philosophy, who came to help cure him during his sentence. Throughout the book, she explained (or reminded) Boethius of many things such as the nature of power and the nature of fame. Many things that she explains in the beginning of the book can be summed together with the thought that God governs everything. God, though not the afterlife, is a very important theme in “The Consolation of Philosophy”. One part of this theme that I have looked at is whether God orders the world totally, or there is chance in our lives. Boethius explained, "Whenever something is done for some purpose, and for certain reasons something other than what was intended happens, it is called chance." (p. __) So is it that there is no chance in life, or do we truly have free will? I believe that there is a concept of chance in our lives, and even though God may know what is going to happen to us, that does not necessarily mean that he made the choice for us.
What if we lived in a world where a small piece of paper was considered the Angel of Death? Where your neighbors would turn on you in an instance because a small black box “prophesized” them to? When true human nature is shown before you are cast into the blackness of death? Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” is a short story in which villagers gather once a year with a black box to perform a lottery that decides just that. The head male of each family must draw till someone has the black dot that decides which family will draw next. The “winner” in that family is then stoned to death by everyone in the village, including their own family. The story has multiple hidden messages that are hard to distinguish from the text. Each message shows a side of human nature that most people believe they do not have. By using literary analysis, Shirley Jackson’s messages become
Kate Chopin the author of "The Storm" and Shirley Jackson, the author of "The Lottery", both hit on key points of human nature. In "The Storm" Chopin writes about a storm that tears apart a family. The family starts to compromise some of their rules. Some of these compromises are more severe than others. "The Lottery" is all about a modern day sacrifice for crops. A town comes together just to kill one of their own, but in this story people begin to question their sacred tradition that has been going for ages. Even though these two stories are so different the two authors do a great job in point out the weaknesses of the human nature. These authors challenge the man versus himself mindset and also man versus society, in multiple ways.
For starters, what is literary greatness? Simply it is why people believe that something is a great piece of work. The author must meet their goal by moving the reader throughout the piece and invoke thought. Therefore, Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery,” is a perfect example of literary greatness. When people read the title of Jackson’s story, they all think of the same thing, and that is someone must have won a lot of money. However, in this particular story Jackson did the complete opposite of what anyone would have expected. Basically, “The Lottery” is about a small town that gets together once a year for a mandatory drawing ran by a guy named, Mr. Summers. During the drawing each person comes up and grabs
In the short story ‘The Lottery’, Shirley Jackson delivers an effective and influential meaning to the reader. However, what makes the story so impactful? Shirley Jackson utilizes a combination of irony, symbolism and an objective point of view to accomplish this master piece. Irony creates suspense, symbolism creates foreshadowing and the point of view wraps this all up to create a story that represents people’s stupidity in blindly following tradition without questioning it.
Uniqueness. It is what separates you from the other 7.4 billion people on Earth. Although many may think that what you look like is how you are individualized (which is true and plays a big role), what really makes you stand out are your values. Just as your values shape who you are, like family or your favorite sport, your life experiences shape your values. That is why learning from your mistakes or understanding history and background is crucial. In the novel, The Probability of Miracles, written by Wendy Wunder, a strong sixteen-year-old fighting cancer by the name of Campbell Cooper, has had seven years of ups and downs, in and out of hospitals. For she has struggled severely, she learns to be optimistic from her previous experiences and gets motivation from her precious values, family, friends, life, and hope. Whereas, in the article, “Those Three Wishes” by Judith Gorog,
Imagine year after year being forced to participate in an event that you did not accept all. You are doing it because everyone else is, because it is tradition. This is exactly what happens in “The Lottery”. The purpose of this essay is to explain the literary elements of this short story. Also I will explain how similar it is the famous “Hunger Games”.
An extensive use of Goldratt's thinking process is applied in the various businesses as part of the problem solving. "It's not luck" emphasizes the importance of using the thinking processes in business and in your personal life. The thinking processes refer to a logical, graphical, general and practical method of problem solving methodology and basically comprised of 3 steps. These steps as described by Goldratt are:
...s you valued most in your life, as time spent with loved ones. I think many would agree this is the most important point the book made, because you do not know how long your loved ones will be around to share those memories with you of when you were happiest in your lifetime.