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The author highlights on the idea of people keeping their emotions to themselves when they have a harrowed heart. He says, “We open windows to each but we live alone in the house of the heart” (Doyle 60). The

The sun shines vibrant rays of bliss, and so shall I. A warm radiance spreads serenity throughout the immeasurable abyss, bringing a sense of hope and new beginnings to many. Having a radiant heart, that shines like gold, is like the heart of an

“The future was sunset; the past something to leave behind. And if it didn't stay behind, well, you might have to stomp it out. Slave life; freed life-every day was a test and a trial. Nothing could be counted on in a world where even when you were a solution you were a problem” (302).

Who are you? Have you ever wondered where you get your identity; what exactly defines you as a person? The obstacles in our lives shape us people, Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart illustrates the circumstances one man and his son face in an Ibo village in Nigeria. Okonkwo, the protagonist/antagonist has a tragic flaw, the fear of weakness which ultimately causes him to expect more from his son, Nwoye who never falls short in disappointing him. The relationship between the two is not the most desired seeing that they both do not show the affection most father-son relationships do. Traditionally, most sons follow their father's footsteps, however, this is not the case for both

“We departed each morning; shut the house like a well-oiled lock.” This simile shows a familiar routine that shows stability and a feeling of belonging in a place. They lock the family home as it is a place that brings them together. His connection to this place explores how perceptions are influenced by places in terms of belonging and not belonging.

Here my thoughts stop and will not go any farther. All that meets me, all that floods over me are but feelings--greed of life, love of home, yearning for the blood, intoxication of deliverance." "aside. We will be superfluous even to ourselves, we will grow older, a few will adapt themselves, some others will merely submit, and most will be bewildered;--the years will pass by and in the end we shall fall into

In our readings, the authors yearned for a more simplistic approach to life and looked back on their lives and wondered if they are living correctly. They had left the human restraints of society, that separate them from nature, to search for the answers that no one seems to have the answer to. “ I had crossed the highway, stepped over two low barbed-wire fences...” (Dillard 6) “I’ll

We were born at the day, time and place for a reason that our eyes cannot see. We were born with a purpose although we struggle to discover it. We do not have a manual indication what to do on certain circumstances of our life, but we gain experience as we live each day. We fall in love because we feel the warmth in our heart. We suffer too because our heart has been hurt. We keep living, and we keep fighting to find how much our life is worth. We push forward if we are ambitious enough, or we may live stuck in the same limitations that we put on us when we don’t expect more from ourselves. Sooner or later we became aware that we have lived part of our life’s purpose. The other half of our purpose will be fulfilled when we change. We do not choose to be who we are, neither did we picked the conditions we live on, but we choose the attitude to become the person we want to be, we decide when to start our new journey. We can see our life, and our purpose thru Denver’s eyes. We might have seen the endless plantations, and our eyes could have seen the never ending debt. We see the person that has loved us the most die. It is thru Denver’s eyes that we see the train taking us to a place where we are alone. Is true his eyes that we also can see a change. Denver faced several changes in his life than anyone else.

“It’s at the very back of your mind, but fear never lets you suppose it.”(P.22)

"I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys" Part 2, Chapter 4, pg. 104

It is the condition of separation and distancing. As such, the “trauma of displacement” has a “psychological, sociological, and environmental” effect on nations, communities, families, and individuals. On a broader sense, Frank Ritchel Ames’s careful analysis of the “cascading effects of exile” shows how the exilic experience sociologically affects individuals in three ways. First, exile diminishes resources and security. “Exile separates people from their property, including food and water, clothing and furnishings, tools, documents, and artistic, religious, and nostalgic items, as well as animals, which are a form of wealth and a source of food, clothing, entertainment, warmth, and tools.” This, Ames affirms, implies that the separation is more than material; it is a separation that “fractures social networks and community infrastructures.” Separation does not allow the taking of what is familiar; it only allows the taking of what is readily available, making it difficult for the exiled to live comfortably and secure. Second, exile increases morbidity and mortality. Ames makes the point by stating that,

Thumping beneath the surface, disguised within the hollows of a man’s soul, impulses beat at their host’s structure. They wriggle through one’s conscious, feeding on the doubts behind all decisions. As this continues, the thickness of the outside will never ensure that these feelings will permanently remain contained.

“[Tenderness had been] crushed so deeply into her heart that it can never show itself more.” (Hawthorne 128)

In Chinua Achebe’s short story, “Dead Men’s Path” a young man’s unwillingness to change opinions causes him to lose the one thing that was most important to him. Achebe uses character, diction, and point of view to show that single mindedness always leads to conflict.

The mind enables people to be aware of the world and their experiences. Allowing people to think and feel, it is the faculty of consciousness and thought. The mind controls one’s environmental perception, and more momentously, perception of self. Though it would seem that an individuals surroundings would be an absent component in their confidence, personal perception and perception of environment share a reciprocal relationship. If one distinguishes their surroundings as insecure, they themselves will retort to unassertiveness and diffidence. Furthermore, if one is a confident individual, they will recognize their world optimistically. Through the “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,” T.S. Eliot demonstrates how people justify their insecurities by their perception of the world.