An Essay On The Natural By Bernard Malamud

Choices, the story writen by Susan Kerslake is about how the choices that we make everyday affect who we are and how our life can change by making the wrong decission. But is it always a bad decission? is it always our fault?

We all have two choices in life: to live life joyfully or despondently. The choices we make define our future, which

Bernard Malamud was brought up in the mid 1900s, a time period when baseball played a huge role in the lives of many Americans. Americans loved baseball because it gave them a chance to stop working and simply relax while they cheered on their favorite team. It was a time when people played baseball solely for the love of the game and the thrill of hearing the fans cheer for them. Today, however, baseball is much more corrupt, and many athletes are only in it due to their own greed and selfishness. This strong desire for money stems from some important players in the past, such as Babe Ruth and Joe DiMaggio, who were outstanding athletes and grew very overconfident in their abilities. They became so confident that they began to demand

In The Natural by Bernard Malamud, Malamud displays the magnitude of how an individual’s decisions can influence their life. Malamud’s main protagonist, Roy Hobbs, is the leading example of this idea, as Hobbs continually faces both his internal struggles stemming from his desire for success, and external struggles attributed to his roller-coaster of a professional baseball career. Malamud uses Hobbs and the sport of baseball as a metaphor for typical American life by depicting Hobbs’ struggles as similar to any average American. Therefore, through the life of Roy Hobbs, Malamud alludes to the average American and explains how moral attitude can lead to a person’s success or downfall.

How do your choices affect your everyday life? Every choice has a consequence. A consequence doesn’t always have to be bad, it could be good. If you do something good why would you get punished? Or vice versa. Choices, everything you do is your choice. Left or right? Up or down? It’s all up to you. You choose your path, choose wisely though. Choices are like the domino effect.in life there are 2 paths, a good path and a bad path. We all try to go down the good path but that isn’t always the case.

In the story, The Natural, certain characters and events are portrayed in a distinctive way that makes this story unique to other books and shows the typical writing style of the narrator. The author uses a repetitive writing technique that is impossible to overlook. The writer of this book is able to catch the reader’s eye with his concept of the importance of beautiful description. The Natural, by Bernard Malamud, uses great imagery that makes the story appealing.

The decisions people make often have a significant impact on their lives. They may seem insignificant now but could change your whole future. Everyone has to make decisions on a day-to-day basis, some are simpler than others but the fact is everyone makes them. In fact Elie Wiesel had to make some tough decisions. Which involved life or death, due to the Holocaust.

Choices, they change us as humans and can greatly affect our lives. There is a book that showcases this completely describes this perfectly, this book is Tangerine. In the book Tangerine, many choices are made by the main character, his friends and his family that affects what happens and other people's feelings. Choices, even small ones can change lives.

In the book, The Natural (1952) by Bernard Malamud, Roy Hobbs is a character very much parallel to the legend of Percival. Roy, who has to overcome many obstacles throughout his troubled life, has the goal of becoming the greatest to ever do it. Malamud makes many allusions to this Arthurian legend making makes it his own by adding the twist to Roy’s destiny. Bernard Malamud uses the allusions to the Arthurian legend, while foreshadowing many twists of fate making it hard for Roy to follow his values, to build the story of, The Natural.

You are the greatest force for determining your outcome because the decisions you make can affect you in the long run, attitude affects your lifestyle, and the outlook determines your future. The decisions you make everyday can either be small or big. One must encounter choices that have to be made everyday. Those decisions can be made at work, school, home, and even the town that you live in.

    Challenging the strict deterministic confines of literary naturalism, which hold that "the human being is merely one phenomenon in a universe of material phenomena" (Gerard 418), Edith Wharton creates in The House of Mirth a novel which irrefutably presents the human creature as being subject to a naturalistic fate but which conveys a looming sense of hope that one may triumph over environment and circumstance if one possesses a certain strength of will or a simple faith in human possibility.

Mistakes are common enough that everybody in human history has suffered them – they may range from the small-scale simple arithmetic errors on a test to the faux pas in a socialite dinner that can cost a company a deal with a potential customer. While these faults are costly at first, learning from them as to avoid foolishly repeating the past is a must. In the novel The Natural by Bernard Malamud, the main character Roy Hobbs does not follow the aforementioned advice and echoes his mistakes in both the two lives another character, Iris, mentions, who classifies the first to make mistakes and the second one to learn from those mistakes and move on. While Roy’s first life is riddled with suffering, his second revival induces a fleeting happiness that soon gives way to prior mistakes repeated; this shines in stark contrast with Iris’,

Often times it can be difficult if not impossible to make what you think at that moment will be the right choice. One of the biggest factors that will hold people back is that to too often than not we are not completely clear on what type of result or outcome we want from a situation. Think about it, if you don’t really know what kind of result you want it is going to be pretty hard to know what choice is going to be the right one. So what do you do? You get a clear understanding, before you make any choice. Think about its effects in the long term, and short term. Knowing exactly what you want is very powerful. We have all heard the golden rule; do onto others as you would have them do onto you. This is probably one of the most important ideas to keep in mind when making good choices. When we are young a lot of us develop this me, me, me, attitude. We want all the toys, and we don’t want to share. Now this mentality may get us a lot of toys, but it defiantly doesn’t help you make friends. In this day and age a large part of personal success is based on working with others to achieve our goals. If we can help others get what they want, it will be much easier and they will be much more willing to help us get what we want. So when making any choice it is always ideal to think about how can I

Everything you do is a choice. You choose the way you are living today. As we walk on the path of life, we are presented with cross roads and forks. Some are pretty obvious which turn we should take. However, not everything is easy in life. And in the fast pace life we are currently living in right now, we move so fast that we meet many more challenges than before and often, we hastily decide on the choices we make.

I have made decisions after decisions that will lead me to success in 5 years. By allowing myself to focus on my future wasn’t as hard as I thought. Your present is as important as your future because we all want to accomplish and experience each moment in our lives, but we need to realize everything we go through in our life time leads to a purpose in the future. Although I’m not satisfied with the decisions I have been making, in five years, I will have a better health; better attitude toured myself, better education, and being more independent.