Life Doesn't Go as Planned Life is strange, sometimes sad, sometimes joyful; and then sometimes life doesn't cooperate with us, no matter how hard we fight. A novel, The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, by Brady Udall is about a boy who gets his head run over by a mailman, which sent him into a downward spiral. The central themes in this book are the struggles and unrelenting human spirit. Edgar, wistfully, is sent to a lot of places, plus loses his family members. Although fate struck him during the accident, Edgars destiny was to keep going and not to give up in life. Life is a maze, if you take the wrong turn life becomes difficult. Therefor, people struggle, Edgar Mint is an indian kid who is run over by a mail man truck. Sending him into the hospital. The hospital to him was very calming. Later he get let go by the hospital and then is sent to an Indian school. There, his life goes downhill. The struggle of being bullied and picked on for being the new kid in the school is evident: “I determined right then that there was no way I was going to allow him to put that turd in my mouth. I set my teeth so hard that my head began to ache” (Udall 105). This is disgusting, but not unusual for the kids who do this because every new kid is either pressured to do something gruesome or beat …show more content…
up. The older kids in that school also steal stuff and let Edgar do the dirty job. That wasn't all for Edgar mint life even went more downhill. He also is being ignored by his mother and was left by his father while his mother was still pregnant. Sometimes parents don't take good care of their children and leave them as stated by Dr Pinkley:“This is your son Edgar. He’s waited a long time to see you, My mother looked everywhere in the room but at me” (Udall 152). Edgar’s mother was an alcoholic, therefore she showed no interest on him even though they have not seen each other since the mailman ran over his head. Just when one thought that his life has thrown him every struggle and could not possibly get worse, his own mother, shows ups after he hasn’t seen her for many years and can’t even recognize him. There is also another side of life that is not just struggle it is the opposite, happiness and hope.
Edgar Mint struggles so much because he gets ran over by a mailman's truck and went into a coma. He is spared in life after he was ran over by a mailman: “ Doctor named barry Pinkley who decided he was going to bring me back from the land of the dead. Any other doctor would have taken one look at me, recorded an approximate time of death and called the hospital” (Udall 24). there is a good side because the doctor did not give up on Edgar even though he was in coma for a month. This gave Edgar hope to wake up from the coma. It gave him hope because of the nice people he was surrounded
by. He still had to struggle in his life. He had had enough. Edgar tried to take out his own life by jumping from a cliff but he was unsuccessful. When he jumped he landed on bushes that broke his fall and spared his life. Some people just need a little fate and believe in someone: “ We ask thee to bless this child, Free him from the evil spirits that torment him give him peace, heal him, heal his body and spirit” (Udall 225). Edgar was asking God for answers. After surviving the jump these men found Edgar and took care of him by taking him back to the same hospital and was recognized as the coma boy. After he recovered, the men show him the right path and give him hope. They tell him that he had a mission on Earth, which God wanted him to do. He later found out that he has to find the mailman that ran over him, who thought that he killed him. Edgar has to find him and tell him that he is still alive. After that, Edgar finds the mailman. Then the mailman adopts Edgar and they live happily together after. Edgard life finally had a turn. Life is a test and there will be obstacles that one will have to dodge and find the finish line to happiness. Even though Edgar had a rough life he managed to survive and find the right way to find happiness in the end. In life there will be moments of struggle and sadness, which will have to be avoid to then find happiness. Life can't always be cheerful and happy, if there was always happiness life would be boring there has to be struggle and sadness to appreciate the little moments of happiness and joy.
It deals with obstacles in life and the ways they are over come. Even if you are different, there are ways for everyone to fit in. The injustices in this book are well written to inform a large audience at many age levels. The book is also a great choice for those people who cheers for the underdogs. It served to illustrate how the simple things in life can mean everything.
Many people oppose society due to the surroundings that they face and the obstacles that they encounter. Set in the bleak winter landscape of New England, Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton is the story of a poor, lonely man, his wife Zeena, and her cousin Mattie Silver. Ethan the protagonist in this novel, faces many challenges and fights to be with the one he really loves. Frome was trapped from the beginning ever since Mattie Silver came to live with him and his wife. He soon came to fall in love with her, and out of love with his own wife. He was basically trapped in the instances of his life, society’s affect on the relationship, love, poverty, illness, disability, and life.
In Craig Lesley’s novel The Sky Fisherman, he illustrates the full desire of direction and the constant flow of life. A boy experiences a chain of life changing series of events that cause him to mature faster than a boy should. Death is an obstacle that can break down any man, a crucial role in the circle of life. It’s something that builds up your past and no direction for your future. No matter how hard life got, Culver fought through the pain and came out as a different person. Physical pain gives experience, emotional pain makes men.
...seems to have endured the most in his life. Not only did he spend his youth caring for his sick mother and then wife, but he now must live in the painful memory of how his life could have been if the accident never happened. The end of the book leaves the readers saddened and frustrated. Though the novella began with a plotline seemingly leading to an ending as cheery as that of Snow White, in the end, this beautiful maiden turned sour. In this storybook tragedy, “the lovers do not live happily ever after. The witch wins” (Ammons 1).
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.
Edith Wharton’s brief, yet tragic novella, Ethan Frome, presents a crippled and lonely man – Ethan Frome – who is trapped in a loveless marriage with a hypochondriacal wife, Zenobia “Zeena” Frome. Set during a harsh, “sluggish” winter in Starkfield, Massachusetts, Ethan and his sickly wife live in a dilapidated and “unusually forlorn and stunted” New-England farmhouse (Wharton 18). Due to Zeena’s numerous complications, they employ her cousin to help around the house, a vivacious young girl – Mattie Silver. With Mattie’s presence, Starkfield seems to emerge from its desolateness, and Ethan’s vacant world seems to be awoken from his discontented life and empty marriage. And so begins Ethan’s love adventure – a desperate desire to have Mattie as his own; however, his morals along with his duty to Zeena and his natural streak of honesty hinder him in his ability to realize his own dreams. Throughout this suspenseful and disastrous novella, Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton effectively employs situational irony enabling readers to experience a sudden shock and an unexpected twist of events that ultimately lead to a final tragedy in a living nightmare.
The theme of this novel is to look at the good you do in life and how it carries over after your death. The moral of the book is; "People can make changes in their lives whenever they really want to, even right up to the end."
Life is a complicated process. It’s filled with many things that keep it interesting but at the same time, very dull. Life’s what you make it and for many, it’s something we all strive for. In the story, The Space Between, the author takes full advantage of the premise as there’s rarely a dull moment- as in life. The book is filled with many literary devices that work nicely with the plot and dialogue. These include; metaphors, similes, irony, personification, and many more. We follow a young man who is finding his way in the world. He has only a week to change his life for the better. But he will face many obstacles on the way that brings the readers into a startling and fun journey.
From death to drug use “The Ascent”, teaches a crucial moral lesson in how decisions affect more than one individual. In Ron Rash’s, “The Ascent”, he tells a story about a boy named Jared who has a rough life due to his parent’s decision making. While Jared is on Christmas break he begins to explore in the woods. As he was exploring he discovers a crashed plane that went missing recently. As the story continues Jared reveals little details, or inner thoughts that his young mind does not understand what is happening around him. Rash’s use of naïve narrator, critical foreshadowing, and imagery to create an effective setting that leads to a character revelation.
Jonathan Kozol's Amazing Grace is a book about the trials and tribulations of everyday life for a group of children who live in the poorest congressional district of the United States, the South Bronx. Their lives may seem extraordinary to us, but to them, they are just as normal as everyone else. What is normal? For the children of the South Bronx, living with the pollution, the sickness, the drugs, and the violence is the only way of life many of them have ever known.
William Golding’s article, “Why Boys Become Vicious” is a descriptive account of the negative behavior some boys posses. It describes several instances where boy’s behavior can be extremely violent and cruel. In his article Golding also gives reasons for some of these actions and attempts to determine whether deep seeded cruelty is something people are born with, or if it is something people collect throughout their lives. He supports these two possibilities with conditions that could cause issues to arise in boys.
Chabon’s “The Lost World” follows teenager Nathan Shapiro in what is, more than anything, a coming of age story. At the age of sixteen, Nathan (and friends) become drunk and go out for a drive around their quaint suburbia. Eventually ending up at the house of the “easy” Chaya Feldman, he is persuaded to go up to her room, buck naked. Once there, she gives him a letter, which he, through various unfortunate circumstances will not read for several months. Upon reading this letter, Nathan has a revelation about life and the human condition.
All through the times of the intense expectation, overwhelming sadness, and inspiring hope in this novel comes a feeling of relief in knowing that this family will make it through the wearisome times with triumph in their faces. The relationships that the mother shares with her children and parents are what save her from despair and ruin, and these relationships are the key to any and all families emerging from the depths of darkness into the fresh air of hope and happiness.
Our world, and lives, are full of trials and tribulations. Its our choices, actions, or lack thereof when facing these difficulties that influence the direction of our lives. Rene Denfeld explores this wonderfully in her novel The Enchanted. Her characters all face trials, of varying degrees of intensity, that not only shape them but also the direction of their lives. She delves into this process thoroughly through her character of the white-haired boy. He transforms from an optimistic boy, to a hollow victim of abuse and a corrupt penal system, and finally into a man who did what was necessary to survive.
He has grown up in the backwash of a dying city and has developed into an individual sensitive to the fact that his town’s vivacity has receded, leaving the faintest echoes of romance, a residue of empty piety, and symbolic memories of an active concern for God and mankind that no longer exists. Although the young boy cannot fully comprehend it intellectually, he feels that his surroundings have become malformed and ostentatious. He is at first as blind as his surroundings, but Joyce prepares us for his eventual perceptive awakening by mitigating his carelessness with an unconscious rejection of the spiritual stagnation of his community. Upon hitting Araby, the boy realizes that he has placed all his love and hope in a world that does not exist outside of his imagination. He feels angry and betrayed and comes to realize his self-deception, describing himself as “a creature driven and derided by vanity”, a vanity all his own (Joyce). This, inherently, represents the archetypal Joycean epiphany, a small but definitive moment after which life is never quite the same. This epiphany, in which the boy lives a dream in spite of the disagreeable and the material, is brought to its inevitable conclusion, with the single sensation of life disintegrating. At the moment of his realization, the narrator finds that he is able to better understand his particular circumstance, but, unfortunately, this