Caroline Sacks 'David And Goliath': An Analysis

Throughout the past couple of months my fellow peers and I have been studying the topic ‘challenge’ and how it affects our lives and people around us. In our everyday lives we are confronting challenges, some are as small as walking up a few steps, and some are larger and more challenging that could be life or death circumstances.

I thrive on a good challenge. For example, if an assigned task is too easy, I tend to get bored and undervalue myself as a whole. I wonder why this person assigned this task to me; do they think I am not capable of a more difficult task? I expect my courses at the university to challenge me in ways I have never been challenged before.

In Brainology, Dweck labels the students who relish challenges as growth mindsets. Throughout high school I struggled with Geometry, so I found a tutor. This allowed me to put extra hours into studying and my grade and test scores improved. I took up the challenge and found joy in applying more effort in an area I was weak in to become smarter. I relished the challenge.

“Education was her dream of dreams, a passion so strong it was almost a disease, and she infected not only her own children with it but generations of little Morrisons yet unborn” (23). Kate, raised in such a family, naturally considers being intelligent and having education as a symbol of success in life. After receiving her university degrees, Kate realizes that Great-Grandmother’s desire for knowledge is not without reason: “the world was spreading itself out before me; I felt that I could go anywhere, do anything. Be anyone” (188). From Kate’s perspective, no obstacle can obstruct her ambitions from this point onward since success in attaining education is the ultimate goal in life, as believed by the Morrisons. Kate’s faith in education, inherited from Great-Grandmother, is also the major reason behind her admiration for Matt – he is the most brilliant of all four children and resembles Great-Grandmother the most. “It seemed to me that the only time those fierce old eyes showed any sign of softening was when Matt walked into the room.” (27) Kate

Everyone will face obstacles one day in life; but we can bow down and let them take over us or we can rise up to the challenge and conquer them. Often this rush of adrenaline or excitement cause one’s inner sense to take over and show what an individually can really do; this is often remarkable and shows that when you are backed into a corner, your inner strength shines through. Do not let this fear of a challenge over take you ,but instead use it to your advantage and show the world who you really are.

Not all stories, write about challenges but when they do the character reaches a point where they think to themselves. In “My People” by Margaret Peterson Haddix, and “Speech To The Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward by Gwendolyn Brooks discusses the importance of opportunity for young people who are growing up and searching for their identity. In both texts, they have characters that face challenges find a way to battle through them.

It wasn't until senior year that she got a envelope in the mail that changed her life forever. Ellington knew she had been applying to colleges, but he had no idea she applied to a New York college far away from the colleges she applied to in California. She had gotten a letter in the mail that said she had been accepted into a school for performing arts and she was over the moon, until she realized she had to tell him.

She is like a person around our life. She always tries her best to help her friends. From her, we know that we should be willing to help others who are in trouble. The other one Caroline was a rich girl before, but she is broke. She doesn’t be disappointed to her life, and she still have confidence in her life.

Personal challenge is something that everyone has to face at least once in their lifetime. I personally believe that personal challenges are a way to motivate a person to do better by achieving them. Overcoming personal challenges gives people a sense of feeling that if they can overcome their challenges then they can do anything. Everyone has gone through personal challenges, Kayla Montgomery, a girl from an article that I have read, has gone through her personal challenge and she is still going through it to this day. My mother went through her challenges and still going through one. I've also went through some personal challenges myself.

Some people do not like challenges, but still choose to face them with courage. Others choose to turn down difficult tasks. Everyone has different reasons which makes it difficult to understand why some people face challenges and why others do not. One reason why people would choose to face a challenge is that they are not only protecting themselves, but they are protecting other people.

Emily Dickenson is the poet in both of the poems. In the second one poem, she talks about taking her own power into her hands. The poem showcases Dickenson’s short comings in life. She compares and contrast her life situations to those of David and the Goliath. She does this by saying that the Goliath is something bigger than her and that she is working effortlessly fighting back even though the Goliath is clearly stronger. In my opinion, it much deeper. Is she not strong enough to tackle what life through her way, or is life too tough for her? I believe she left it that way to show the reader that life is tough, but that you have to be tougher to survive. I also believe that the story is a narrative of the poet talking to herself about battling

When studying any piece of literature there are many different methods and techniques that can be used. The Bible, in specific, is often referred to as a source of moral code, hope, and answers to social, ethical, and political questions. However, this incredibly influential book can also be read as if it were any other novel. The events, settings, and characters can all be evaluated for what they are, forgetting the notion that they are from a religious text. This approach is called narrative criticism. When regarding to the Bible in this way, we do not need to know any historical information or focus on seeking a deeper theological meaning. Instead, the stories are evaluated in terms of how

The utility of poetry has been debated for thousands of years; around 2,500 years ago Plato called for it to be banned for its lack of utility. Plato’s views on poetry were not wrong; looking at it from a purely practical point of view, poetry is not a necessity. It is incomparable to what society considers essential – medicine, technology, leadership. If there were an apocalypse in the future, and we could select only a few people to survive it, the poet would not stand a chance. And yet, this is not necessarily a bad thing. When something is considered useful, it must always be useful; there is a lot of pressure on scientists to continue to invent, and continue to help. This pressure to be productive and to consistently strive for perfection is not placed upon the shoulders of poets, who must understand that their craft is not, rationally speaking, necessary for survival. Along with society’s acknowledgments, the philosophers and engineers, Plato’s logical giants – the Goliaths of the world – will also get its expectations. The poets, like David from the biblical story, will match the Goliaths by using a different strength, not the tool of pragmatism. They are underestimated, and the lack of expectations on them gives them their strength: the room to be foolish, to be blunt, and to be imperfect. In short, poetry is useful because we do not think it is; as Sylvia Plath’s brutally truthful poems demonstrate, in poetry there is freedom to

Caroline has been the most successful of the three women in this story. She has received a college degree, and managed to move herself out of a homeless shelter into an actual home. She has a hard time keeping dreams for her career. She never is given the opportunity to be promoted in her jobs which leaves her discouraged. She classifies herself as the working, poor, poverty generated, handicapped worker. She has dealt with many bad marriages. To try and better herself, she enrolls in college again to try and make herself more hirable. Unfortunately debt manages to build up for her since she enrolled in college again. She has to move to find better jobs, but realizes that moving away from a familiar place is hard. It really hurts her self-esteem.

Challenges are the structure of self-development, so people could to develop critical-thinking skills to overcome those challenges. For example, workers are constantly encountering new set of challenges. The challenges help workers to gain more knowledge of their career and will prepare them for future challenges. According to a journal written by Doody discussed on jumping out of comfort zone in a medical field, “issues pertaining to patient safety and operative outcome targets may restrict the amount of autonomy that a trainee may be given to move from his or her comfort zone to the learning zone” (Doody). This prepares workers to encounter challenges, and how they will handle the situation either on their own or help from others. By doing so medical trainees will be able to adjust to their jobs on a medical field. It can help them learn and develop new tactics dealing with the situation because “advanced learners who require more complex, unpredictable challenges with higher stakes to maximize their learning” (Doody). People who are set in complex challenges will be able to handle the situation, which it can increase their ability to handle similar challenges they will encounter in the future. Comfort zones limits people from handling challenges, but enforcing challenges within their work can help them overcome the comfort zone. Challenges are necessary for people