Article Analysis : ' Denver 's Eyes '

What is the purpose of life? Is it to be happy? To be well known? To be wealthy? Everyone is placed on earth to embark on an individual journey. Whether it is controllable or comes as a surprise, it must not be taken for granted but accepted as a gift. In Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, O’Brien was chosen from the draft to be deployed to the Vietnam War. He set off on this journey to fight for his country, but had to find himself along the way. In Song of Myself written by Walt Whitman, Whitman was tired of his day to day routine and set off on a tranquil journey to connect himself with the earth. Although “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien and “Song of Myself” both demonstrate a journey of self-discovery, they differ in that one

A significant event in one's life forces a person to reevaluate their current situation and decide how they will adapt to a new situation, or cause them to look back on the steps they took to get into that situation. In life as well as in the literature Crosswalk In The Rain, and THE TENT DELIVERY WOMAN’S RIDE, people have to adapt to what is happening in their lives, despite conditions they may have been through in the past. In life at some point there will be crossroads that a person must cross, they can either look back at what they have done to end up in that position or they can look forward and see what they must do to continue moving forward.

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

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.

Through the eyes of all those around us and you yourself, how do you know you see the same as them? A poem named “ Negative” by Kevin Young is written in such a view that life is too based on what we see, and some things won’t change no matter what they look like. I’ll be explaining why the author, Kevin Young, used the words that he did, and the comparisons he made. Additionally, break down one of the big main points in the poem.

“You got tuh go there tuh know there,” Janie, the main character of Their Eyes were Watching God written by Zora Neale Hurston says as she reflects on her life and what had brought her to her point of self actualization. Janie takes a long journey with many different people on the way helping her self-actualize. Achieving self-actualization came from fulfilling her talents and potentials with the help of others. On Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, self-actualization is considered as the achievement that all people should strive, but they must pass through the basic needs in order to achieve the one goal, which is self actualization. Janie’s life throughout this book progressed like a ladder climbing through Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs to achieve

In the depths of your despairs, you’ll realize that your situation repeats itself until you learn valuable lessons. Throughout life it is inevitable to meet a diverse range of people in your life that can help you create yourself as an individual. On the the other hand certain acquaintances can have an opposite affect on your life and will lead them to attempting to tear you down. Meeting a variety of people, you are bound to initiate affection towards them. As marriage is the united bond of love that two people decide to make everlasting, it also can change throughout the course of time. Experiencing circumstances where you feel worthless, in times where you should feel as a priority, it can lead to the collapsing of the emotions that were once there. In the story, Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zara Neale Hurston, the protagonist, Janie Crawford encountered multiple challenges in her search to be loved and wanted. Despite not having a definite understanding of who she is herself, her relationships she made along the way, did not only bring hardships, but ignited a superior comprehension of her desires she is searching for. As the story unfolds, actions taken by Janie’s relationships will present to her a multitude of decisions she has to make in order to fully blossom.

As he talks to Reuven about the silence between him and his father, he remarks, “…you can listen to silence and learn from it… I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it… It has a strange, beautiful texture… sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to” (249). Danny begins to understand what silence teaches him. He learns to listen to the pain of others because he suffers himself. Moreover, as Danny is about to leave to Columbia for college, Reuven describes, “His beard and earlocks were gone, and his face looked pale. But there was a light in his eyes that was almost blinding… There was a long, gentle silence” (270). Reuven notices that Danny is excited from the light in his eyes, and he now understands that silence is gentle. Because Danny realizes why Reb raised him in silence, he is no longer confused about his future. Likewise, when Reuven’s father asks Danny if he will raise his own child in silence, he replies, “Yes, if I can’t find another way” (271). Although Danny anguishes, he plans on raising his child the same way. He understands how silence taught him compassion, and he learns Reb’s purpose for raising him this way. Due to suffering, Danny understands how to listen to the world’s problems through

When we are at our all time low, feeling alone and helpless, that is when God will take the opportunity to remind us that He is always there. In Denver’s words, “When you get all the way to the end of your rope and there ain’t nothing you can do, that’s when God takes over.” We may not notice God when things are going the way we want them to, but the reality is, he is always there, even in the roughest times, if we just believe in Him and his capabilities. Another significant quote is, “I was embarrassed that I once thought myself superior to him, stooping to sprinkle my wealth and wisdom into his lowly life.” Ron’s shame at looking down on Denver goes back to another important theme of the novel: never judge a person based on what you see, for you have never walked a mile in their shoes. Ron’s first impression of Denver was drastically mistaken, which emphasizes that people aren’t always who they appear to be, and for that, one should never jump to conclusions or assumptions about

“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

As the author said, sometimes the fate can be changed by choice you make. It encourages the reader that it is always possible to change and fix destinies before it is too late. One important quote that the author wrote is, “This book is meant to show us how... our destinies can be determined by a single stumble down the wrong path , or a tentative step down the right one." (Moore xiv).

Response: (R) This passage shows how our fates destined the path to the course of our lives and the sacrifices people are willing to make for their loves ones. Fate, holds a remedy of ‘what if’, a wonderment that unwilling can our desires and aspirations. The other Wes Moore’s mother, Mary, had set a goal for herself. A goal of being the first in her family to get her bachelors of any major. Mary was determined, so much so, that she was paying her way through her education. She was working at Bayview for $6.50, which in present day is way below the minimum wage level that is now $9.00 (in New York). Everything was going as Mary desired, but on an unprecedented day her grant was eliminated. She needed that grant, it was the ultimate drive that

1) According to Dillard, lovers and the knowledgeable can see well. Yet she also suggests that those who are knowledgeable on a topic, such as people who have been blind from birth and can suddenly see (due to an opperation), can perhaps view more objectively the world around them, and see it in a way that those with vision from birth cannot. Infants, she says, can see very clearly, for they are viewing the world for the first time, and can observe the colors and the light with no prejudgments, but we forget this experience as we grow older, and only occasionally catch glimpses of this phenomenon.

In an article entitled “The All- Seeing Public Eye” in Berkeley City College, Derek Wallace discusses cameras and recording skills beyond personal experiences. Wallace maintains that it’s necessary to utilize the resources as cameras and videotapes properly, because it has huge power over society, that using in a better way it could collaborate to change weaknesses that this world has. Moreover, he argues that cameras are special tools in political matters that people have the dominions and should be them in a way that it helps themselves and not politicians and media stream. Finally, Wallace concludes that people have a big instrument over their hands, and it good uses could help to transform the world.

“The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked hard for