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“Actually, feeling lonely has little to do with how many friends you have. It 's the way you feel inside. Some people who feel lonely may rarely interact with people and others who are surrounded by people but don 't feel connected” (Karyn Hall 2013). Truthfully, loneliness is something almost all people fear. It 's a deeper feeling then just being isolated. It 's feeling distant or disconnected from others. Loneliness is so much more than just feeling secluded, it 's feeling rejected by society, or even like an outcast. In Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck suggests that there is a deeper meaning to being lonely than just the superficial sense of

Bradbury writes “He stood entranced, not unlike a night moth, stunned by the illumination, and then drawn toward it.” With this simile, the man is now transfixed by a bright light and unable to move. This is a major shift in the setting and feel because the reader now feels an anxious or agitated feeling instead of the previous calm and content feeling. This simile leaves the reader wondering who is behind this transfixing light and what will that person do with the protagonist. Bradbury uses this suspense and wondering to allow the reader to really feel what the protagonist is

Loneliness has become an epidemic among young adults and spared out in elders’ everyday life where social isolation has become a cause of early death because we cannot cope alone.

All kinds of people will feel loneliness and sometimes the innocent feel the loneliest. The importance of life is experiencing loneliness. People do not remember every emotion they have felt but we will always remember the feeling of being lonely. No matter how strong someone is or how happy someone seems to be. Loneliness have infected their lives and changed them. The timeless novel To kill a mockingbird teaches one of the many universal lessons, that everyone experiences loneliness. Harper Lee clearly shows that loneliness exists in the community of Maycomb through the characters Mayella Ewell, Boo Radley, and Mrs. Dubose.

Oftentimes, people confuse loneliness with the state of being alone. When looking at the overall big picture, it is easy to forget that loneliness is temporary. People are not alone because even back in primitive times, they bore a natural instinct to strive for companionship in order to survive. Human imagination creates companions in cases of extreme loneliness which contradicts the state of being alone. Due to societal and family standards, others in society make it practically impossible to be alone. Mankind often goes through life without realizing the overwhelming amount of human contact and support. People are never alone, they are just simply

Have you ever felt so alone, you get the impression that you do not belong at a place? Sandra Cisneros describes the unfavorable relationship she faces with her family. Although Sandra is talked down upon, she persuades the readers how the loneliness impacted her life.

Nouwen (1975) describes loneliness as a universal experience that affects even the most intimate relationships. He identifies loneliness as one of the universal sources of human suffering. Some of the mental suffering in the

People are considered to be social beings, yet, again and again, they seek to falsify the claims of civility, and show themselves as the detached individuals they tend to be. In his novella, “Of Mice and Men,” John Steinbeck designed several faulty pairings that display the true disparity and detachment that are proven to be a part of every relationship in the story. Through the associations of the main characters, Lennie and George, along with several other characters within the narrative, Steinbeck exposes the root of 1930’s relationships in promises, loneliness, and a basic need for companionship, rather than any true fondness- a junction that can easily be nullified.

Loneliness and exclusion from society hurts and affects everyone; the emotional strain a person endures from it creates the image they present to others, but deep down they are not the display image they manufacture. As an illustration, while opening up to Lennie in the barn Curley’s wife states, “I get lonely… You can talk to people, but I can’t talk to nobody but Curley. Else he gets mad.

Today’s society suggest that solitude is something to avoid. Being alone is looked down upon and is considered a bad thing. Instead of loneliness, we value communication. In her essay, “When Collaboration Kills Creativity,” by Susan Cain, Cain discusses how creative people tend to be introverts and that solitude is the key to innovation. Furthermore, she explains how society favors working in groups which has become a necessity in many settings. Similarly, in “The end of solitude,” by William Deresiewicz, Deresiewicz points out how the use of technology destroys time for ourselves and is used to counteract the fear of being alone. He emphasizes how solitude helps us listen to our own thoughts and for spiritual growth. In the past, solitude

In The Fog Horn, Ray Bradbury uses a multitude of methods in order to convey the atmosphere of mystery and suspense. Bradbury does so through the use of references and literary devices to features the sea, the fish and the lighthouse. The narrative is a comprehensive and concise story that shadows the life of Bradbury’s character McDunn and Johnny whose job is to alert ships passing within the fog of their proximity to land. While working alongside each other, McDunn delays telling Johnny of the ominous monster that lurks their sea and repeatedly makes visits to the light house. In the except analysed McDunn, the main character, was giving a detailed narrative about the period when the fish of the sea would surface in order to gaze at the towering

Astronauts spend much of their time in solitude, with their only companions being their fellow astronauts. The psychological effects of being alone for long periods can cause mental damage to the astronaut, which is why many hours of training are spent in isolation from others. On long space travel missions, communication with the people on earth can be completely lost. Technology and communication systems can fail, and space travelers must solve problems by themselves without the help of a team on earth. Astronauts seem to be more psychologically prepared to deal with being alone better than the average person is. In the video “The Innovation of Loneliness,” scripted by Shimi Cohen, human loneliness and its causes are analyzed and differentiated

You do not have to be consciously aware of this loneliness, but your

To be lonely is an easy thing, being alone is another matter entirely. To understand this, first one must understand the difference between loneliness and being alone. To be alone means that your are not in the company of anyone else. You are one. But loneliness can happen anytime, anywhere. You can be lonely in a crowd, lonely with friends, lonely with family. You can even be lonely while with loved ones. For feeling lonely, is in essence a feeling of being alone. As thought you were one and you feel as though you will always be that way. Loneliness can be one of the most destructive feelings humans are capable of feeling. For loneliness can lead to depression, suicide, and even to raging out and hurting friends and/or

Loneliness seems to have become a common characteristics that individuals share around the world. Although this is a subject that has been a part of discussions and a focus of research for many years in philosophy , theology, psychology and literature, the scientific study has had a relatively short record. In this day and age there have