Analysis Of Message From Mirror, Courage, Explore, Douglas

Life is a gift, not lasting forever, where will you choose to end up? For worse or better? In this beautifully written poem by Linda Ellis she talks about how just one little dash represents our life from the day we are born until the day we die. A dash that means so much more than what it appears to be, representing a lifetime throughout that little dash. Sometimes in life we must look beyond just the writing, we must push ourselves to go deeper and find a hidden message.

Courage is important because if you’re not courageous you will not explore new things, get new experiences. An example of courage happens in the first couple of pages when Jasper and Charlie go out to explore late at night into the forest. If they haven’t gone out there they would’ve never found the body

Life is all about what you make it. More so now than ever, lives are taken so much for granted and the small things are so overlooked. Many lives are lived by the wrong priorities, in my opinion. Every day is up for grabs and every moment matters.

How can courage defined? By power? By strength? No, my definition of courage is when you know the task that is presented before you will risk your safety and/or well being, but you do it anyway so that you can help to achieve a greater cause. "You know, courage seemed to skip a generation. Thank you for bringing it back to our family”. Obviously this quote is more of a metaphor rather than a literal statement but it has an important meaning, which in my opinion it means that a large majority of us become comfortable with our current lives and that we don’t really want or think that we need change. I think that this can only change when a few people show great courage like Aibileen and Minnie showed in the book by sharing their story.

“For a lot of people, life is a series of day by day decisions, living each day trying to do the best we can, and where we end up in life is not always where we would have predicted when we were

“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” I try to live by this quote by Charles R. Swindoll every day. I feel that this is a strong quote with a lot of meaning behind it and, it can be interpreted in many ways. In my opinion, we should see things in a positive way all the time. We also should do what we love every day because you never know how close you are to the end.

The importance of courage is that it helps continue with our story or life. Courage gives us strength and bravery to keep moving on with our life. If we didn’t have courage we would be still and not want to move on with our life. In the book Peace like a River by Leif Enger, Ruben, the main character, has courage to move on and go find his brother. Ruben finds the courage to go to go find work, when Jeremiah got sick and couldn’t support the family. Ruben find the strength and brave to go up to the stand and testify of what he saw during the shooting. Last Ruben had the courage to go and find Davy in the Badlands.

Doesn’t everyone wish they could grow up faster when they are younger, but when they actually start to grow up, they just want it to slow down? Aging is a unique experience to everyone and each person deals with it differently. This theme of aging and how people see themselves can be seen both similarly and differently in “Mirror” by Sylvia Plath and “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost. These similarities and differences can be seen through each author’s tone, each poem’s structure, and each poem’s overall message.

Life in its ever-evolving glory seems at times to be nothing more than a serious of random events that lead us from one place to another. It takes many years of grace and wisdom to see that life is much more than that. Life is far bigger than any one person or group of people. Life is a lesson and sometimes lessons need to repeat. Life during the time of Walt Whitman was oddly and sadly similar

If someone could reflect on their entire life after they had passed, what would they say? What if that person heard that their loved ones were not appreciating everyday they were alive? What would they say to them? In the poem “Lucinda Matlock”, written by Edgar Lee Masters, the character Lucinda Matlock, who has passed away, shares the story of her life and gives some advice to her loved ones who are alive and experiencing some bad times. The theme Masters uses is to make the best of life because life is too short to be negative. The character Lucinda Matlock has passed away but is reflecting on the ups and downs of her life, but always remains positive. Masters describes the theme by using persona, tone, and

”Life should be an exciting adventure. It should never be a bore. A man should live fully, be alive. He should be glad to get out of the bed in the morning. He should be doing a job that he likes because he does it well.”

“Brian died because he refused to live” (Meghan Daum, Variations on Grief). What exactly does it mean to live? One’s goal would be to live and not just be alive. Brian went to upscale restaurants, drove luxurious cars, and traveled the world, yet he died at twenty-two. The outlook would be that Brian’s life was fascinating and exhilarating. ”Living life to the fullest” can be perceived differently depending on the person. Brian was given everything he needed and wanted his entire life. He never had to work for anything and he did not have to stay in college. He did not live for the moment. Meghan Daum was less fortunate, however she worked every day and attended college to give herself a better opportunity. Brian on the other hand, had no desire.

The world as a classroom really speaks to me. Life is all about learning and moving onto the next big thing. Our whole life until we turn eighteen is focused on school, passing the tests, and succeeding. After that we go to college or go to work, we do not want to stay in that place for too long so then we focus on

In our reality, courage is important because all good things require risk, and courage is the ability to take that risk to get the reward. In the book Speak, there are many displays of courage. Many things we have today would not exist if us the people did not have courage. Like Martin Luther King, if he did not have the courage to stand up to all the people, we would still live in a divided society. Like all those soldiers in World War II, it requires a lot of courage to risk your life to save others, if the soldiers did not have the courage, we wouldn’t of been able to fight in the war. It is important to be courageous, because it gives you a voice, it protects you from pain, and sometime it will show you new possibilities you never thought could happen.

What is a life truly lived? Can one be happy all the time? To truly experience all that life has to offer, one must be able to compare the good and the bad. To know what happiness is, one must know sadness and to appreciate the highs, one must overcome the lows. In Brave New World, written by Aldous Huxley, we can see that a life without both good and bad experiences is a flat line and does not complete a person. Bernard was not happy though he was a member of Brave New World, Helmholtz was incomplete though seemingly happy and actually chose a ‘less-than-ideal’ life while Linda thought she was happy, but when she tried to apply her lifestyle in a new environment, she was unsuccessful and eventually died