Anna Harrington's Summary

Resilience is the ability to recover quickly from difficulties. In the book Night by Elie Wiesel, Elie and his dad did not have the best relationship in the beginning, but at the end of their very long journey they were inseparable. In the book Boy In the Boat by Daniel James Brown Joe did not really have a family until he made the rowing team, and until he met Joyce who would later become his wife and they would start a family. Human resilience is affected by family in both of these books.

The memoir The Glass Castle, written by Jeannette Walls, takes the reader on her life journey as a child and how her family represents resilience. But, what exactly does it mean to be resilient? Resilience is the capability of a person to bounce back from a hard time, to get back on their feet after stumbling, to understand that there is no end and you can always become better. This essay will model the explanation of resilience in my words, the explanation of resilience from both what was seen in the memoir and Elizabeth Edwards, and how these three tie together to model the same title; resilience.

In the novel The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls there are many moments in which you notice the struggle that the family and family are going through. By constructing this response to the proposed question; it forces you to look deeper into the stories character and see their resilience. Now of course in this novel there were characters that showed very little resilience or never sprung back from the situation they were in at a younger age. In this essay I will be explaining resilience and use examples from The Glass Castle to prove my points.

Resilience is the power or the ability to return to the original form. “Resilience is born by grounding yourself in your own loveliness, hitting notes you thought were way out of your range” (94). Father Gregory Boyle says this because he knows that resilience is needed in order to change. Resilience is important because we can become better people by doing things, we thought we couldn’t do. In the book, Tattoos on the Heart, The Power of Boundless Compassion, Boyle claims resilience is essential in our lives because it is the key to do better.

This summer I read The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls and it was amazing. I really loved every page of Jeannette Wall’s novel, and it just seemed to get better and better as I kept reading. Wall’s novel is recognized as “a remarkable memoir of redemption and resilience.” But what is resilience? To be honest I couldn’t really truly comprehend what resilience was. I had a very vague definition of it, but, not anything I could explain with certainty. In this paper I will find my own definition of resilience, which’ll not only help me finish a summer assignment but also help me to fully understand resilience.

Resilience, fundamentally, is the ability to bounce back from hardship and the phenomenon of overcoming stress or adversity, for example: personal crises, poverty, mental illness and trauma (Occupational Health & Wellbeing, 2012). This skill can help individuals overcome the most difficult of situations (Occupational Health & Wellbeing, 2012). Resilience theorists generally agree that the presence of protective factors can reduce the effects of exposure to adversity. The more protective factors (or “assets”) available, the more resilient a person will be. Protective factors are conditions or attributes that help people deal more effectively with stressful events and eliminate risk. On the contrary, risk factors are attributes or characteristics

Resilience is a term that is often applied to those who have faced hardship and viewed the experience in a positive light as an opportunity to grow and change for the better (Wagnild & Collins, 2009). The definition however seems to vary from place to place. Ungar et al. (2008) stated “definitions of resilience are ambiguous when viewed across cultures" (p.174) which is why the understanding of resilience may be difficult to capture (as cited in Windle, Bennett & Noyes, 2011). Although the literature agrees on several common themes about resilience there are many varying opinions on how to define the concept or the attributing factors. Earvolino-Ramirez (2007) and

Resilience is defined as the quality that allows people to be knocked down and come back stronger than ever. Resilience is demonstrated throughout the novel Defending Jacob by William Landay, and the ancillary texts “If” by Rudyard Kipling, and “The Third and Final Continent” by Jhumpa Lahiri though different literary devices. The similar conflicts of Defending Jacob and “Third and Final Continent” help develop a theme of resilience throughout the stories. Another literary device that helps to show this theme in Defending Jacob and “If” is point of view. Finally, the theme is displayed once more in the novel and “Third and Final Continent” through the use of characterization. The theme of keeping one’s head through troubled times and not giving up is developed through the use of conflict, point of view, and characterization in Defending Jacob, “If”, and “The Third and Final Continent”.

According to “Alison Doyle” Saying friendly hello or simply greeting people can make your store difference. Dealing with your customers with good attitude can possibly make them feel and found that just smiling, like saying they can solve their problems in everyday their living.

The purpose of this analysis was to gather information from previous investigations on resilience from a variety of fields, synthesize the findings, and identify the critical attributes common to all. Then, filter through those attributes to find those distinct to an individual’s resilience and were necessary for resilience to take place.

This story takes place in a fictional town called Upper Darby, Rhode Island in 2004. Anna Fitzgerald's older sister, Kate, suffers from acute promyelocytic leukemia, a blood and bone marrow cancer. Anna was born as a savior sister specifically so she could save Kate's life. At first it is successful, but the cancer continues to relapse throughout Kate's life. Anna is willing to donate whatever Kate needs, but when she turns 13, she is told that she will have to donate one of her kidneys. The surgery of replacing a kidney to Kate is major, it cannot guaranteed it will success for Anna and Kate. Campbell Alexander is a lawyer to help Kate so she would be able to make her own decisions regarding her medical treatment and the donation of her kidney and Julia Romano, the court-appointed guardian whose job is to decide what would be

Has anyone lived a life without misfortune? Doubtable; even the person with what could be described as the ideal life deals with some form of adversity. The novel, Speak, and the short story, The Third and Final Continent, both use plot as a way to convey themes of hardship. Moreover, these texts both use symbolism in order to develop their themes as well. The Art of Resilience and Speak utilize characterization as a method of developing their respective themes. Speak, The Third and Final Continent, and The Art of Resilience each deal with the theme that all people must learn to cope with adverse situations.

His concepts of delusion of reprieve and speculation about how much could be endured might attest to that, but hope, humor, curiosity, and thoughts of suicide can all be easily applied to all aspects of human nature. Frankl was able to use them all for his theory, and by blending the rarely felt human reactions to the daily ones, he has been able to create a school of thought that shows human resilience to even the most impossible of situations. This paper concentrated on a few specific aspects of this book and also how it can be related to life outside of inhumane conditions and violence with my mother’s reaction to her stroke over the summer. Though Frankl’s observations happened in extreme circumstances, his school of logotherapy can be applied to any person’s

Harrington’s article on resilience was informative regarding the elements of resilience and its usefulness in the workplace, but the article lacked substance on practical ways employers can foster more resilient employees. Harrington acknowledges that resilience is a “multi-modal construct”, and identifies key elements to resilience that are all unique to an individual and spread far beyond the workplace, such as spirituality and family life (Harrington, 2012, p. 29,30). The uniqueness of elements affecting a person’s resilience, and the fact it is built over time, appear to leave little room for employers to make a mark on someone’s overall resilience. Harrington offers only one piece of advice for employers, to consider the environment they

Resilience has been studied from diverse perspectives, such as displaying adequate development despite a series of risk factors that pose a threat to such development, functioning well under adverse conditions, or recovering normal functioning after a disaster or adversity (Masten, 2007). The theoretical postures and ways of understanding resilience are also different because they consider it either in personality trait or dynamic process. For the former perspective, resilience is a trait that is fixed and stable over time, and the main research goal is to determine the individual differences that may explain why some individuals perform better than others in adverse contexts ( Campbell-sill et al.,2006). The second perspective considers resilience as a stage resulting from the combination of diverse protection and risk factors, that is, a dynamic process that “protects” the individual any moment of one’s lifetime and can change as function of one’s personal, family, and social resources, as well as of one’s context and