Analysis Of Zaabalawi And Of Clay We Are Created By Rolf Carle

Hillenbrand and the author of the text about Mine’ Okubo explain how perseverance and resilience are essential for surviving difficult times. Throughout both texts, the authors use several methods to develop this central idea.

The main theme in this book is that of individual experience, which is written as if the reader was looking through the eyes of the narrator, not knowing the context, but understanding how life is for those who have been through the experience.

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them”, says Maya Angelou, an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. This quote reflects to Sarah’s journey in the novel Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay, since the main character, Sarah, faces events that affect her well being, as they make her both weaker and stronger. These events causes her to lose her innocence, makes her persistent, and then eventually drives her to be pessimistic. Sarah experiences traumatic events through her journey, which leads her to change both in a positive and negative way.

This story gives a reflection on the role of the media because it demonstrates how news matter when a catastrophe occurs. Media is there to inform the public and increase their popularity but they are emotionally detached on what Azucena is going through. Allende makes media react in a particular way on how they should act with the people and be in guard on what to film, to please the public. The media only follows the company’s demands which is to bring more money for the company and that they shouldn’t take daily events emotionally. Though there’s Rolf Carle, who is different toward Azucena and distracts her from her hurt and loss of hope.

In the short story “The Harvest” by Amy Hempel, an unnamed narrator is in a horrible car accident, where her leg is permanently disfigured. The story takes place after the accident, when the narrator is attempting to process the life changing event that’s just happened to her. The story is broken up into two parts,in the first part she describes the accident and the aftermath - the accident, the hospital, the recovery. But she opens the second half of the story by admitting that not everything we just read is factual. The struggle she is having throughout the story is to cope with and understand her accident, but her emotional distress inhibits that. The narrator conveys her instability and vulnerability that the accident caused in through the ways she decides to alter the details of her story. Although she goes through the process of reflecting on why she does this, she doesn’t come out the other side feeling less confused about why her accident happened to her, or any less unstable and vulnerable.

Universal among all journeys to destiny, tragic events test the perseverance and resolve of the one on his or her journey to destiny. In Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima, Antonio

The book, Till we Have Faces chronicles the life of Orual, who struggles with her relationship with the gods and with the people closest to her . . The reader is able to better understand  her  internal struggles as  she is the narrator of the book. Because the story  is written from Orual’s  point of view the reader sees  life  through her eyes. They experience her biases and the way her emotions, perspectives, and prejudices warp her views on her life and ultimately the world, allowing them to understand her even better. . The reader is brought into Orual’s thought processes and emotions. When Orual reflects on herself, the reader is able to reflect with her and see where she might have been wrong in her thinking. Throughout reading,  Till We Have Faces, I felt more and more able to personally relate to  Orual. As the story unfolded, I realized that many  of the similarities in our life and world views revolved around our selfishness and need for control.

By the end of the journey, it is obvious the narrative is a tragedy. The author has formed this safety blanket,

She was alone, she was scared, she had no idea that her normal life would be taken away for the next eighteen years… and hope is the sole reason that she survived it. For kidnap victim, Jaycee Dugard, the word “hope” brings back a flood of emotions and memories. In her chilling memoir, “A Stolen Life”, she describes a very personal experience in which she encountered at age eleven, where she soon learned just how important hope was. Dugard never saw it coming when a man named Phillip Garrido stole her from that bus stop on just another normal morning… or so she thought. Soon after, he took her away and held her hostage in his backyard for almost two decades. Interestingly enough, she has miraculously turned this cruel situation into a very inspiring story. Therefore, she proves to us that even if you’re living out your worst nightmare, you still have something to live for. For this reason, Dugard puts together a descriptive setting, her absurd relationship with her abductor, and personal symbols to illustrate how just a little hope can be the essence of surviving any situation life throws at you.

In Author’s Prayer written by Ilya Kaminsky the speaker talks about the meaning of our lives and what is most important. The speaker is praying, perhaps not to any particular God, or person, but rather to the world, begging for a change. There is a fundamental darkness to the speaker’s words, and while it ends with aspirations of hope, it ultimately sums up the darkest fears, greatest failures and the wildest dreams of the speaker. It is a prayer, but not like any prayer the world has come to know, it is more like a story, a thought about the pain and the pleasure of life.

Writers are supposed to spread hope. Not a false one, of course, but there needs to be something to hold on to for the reader. These dark times that have scattered their wings over the course of time need to move on and the optimism needs to be promoted. (WILLIAMSON, 2014)

It is pretty strange when Tretheway has not been ridden out the storm at that time, yet her ability to extend that empathy to the local residents is undeniable. Thetheway refacts all the deaths and “bodies washed away” (65) through the lens of witnesses – her family and the whole community – with emotional depth and

Omar N. Bradley, a senior officer of the United States Army once stated, “Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.” In other words, our world understands warfare more than harmony. Having ethical responsibility can contribute a major part in increasing peace around us. In the short story, “And of Clay Are We Created” the author, Isabelle Allende described the way Rolf Carle’s act of ethical responsibility effected a little girl's death in a way that she could die in peace instead of frustration and fear, knowing that an effort was made to live again, but it was in her fate to move on. Ethical responsibility, according to “www.smallbusiness.chron.com”, can be defined as “the duty to follow a morally correct path. In your personal life, you might feel the greatest sense of ethical responsibility to your family and close friends.

Introduction: God guides and protects us through all crisis by showing his power in faith to overcome. Sometimes we ask God “help us” or “save us” only when a crisis is present in our lives and forget

Psychologist and best-selling author Clarissa Pinkola Estes, who using stories in therapy says, “Stories act like an antibiotic that finds the source of the infection and concentrates there. The story help makes that part of the psyche clear and strong again.”4 In her book Remember the Time, Eileen Silva Kindig recalls a woman who is very depressed after the death of her husband until a young couple moved in next door whom the woman conversed with and shared stories. The woman’s daughter told Kindig the more she shared her stories and knowledge, the more vital she even