Comparing Honey Tree And Annie Dillard's Living Like

In one’s everyday life, we are surrounded with environmental factors that could potentially shape the aspects of our lives. These types of factors range anywhere from negative to positive on a broad spectrum. For instance in Eugenia Collier’s short story “Marigolds”, The main character Lizabeth, is surrounded by an abundance of environmental factors, as she struggles with own internal conflict of coming to terms that her reign of innocence is slowly fading away. As the story continues, Lizabeth’s environmental factors are exposed, and as a result of these factors, she commits certain actions, in which she faces consequences for. The particular theme that is emitted from this short narrative, is “symbolic experiences that one may experience in life, have a probability of changing aspects in our lives”. This is tied in with main emphasize of exploring in the text how this particular theme is exposed by the characters, setting, and the plot of the story.

Take a moment and look into your refrigerator. Would you be able to tell someone where your food came from? What about your clothes, soap or paper? The majority of Americans never come into contact with the source of their food or supplies. Gary Snyder’s Song of the Taste meets Learning Objective One, helping students develop connections among ecological values and ideas and understand the ways literature and other liberal-arts disciplines think about them. Furthermore, it helps us understand nature as a food source in different perspective.

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.

The paths taken in each person’s lifetime can associate with any factor or situation that one may come across. For example, one could come across a path that stands for tradition and the effect of traditional beliefs on a society like the one represented in “Dead Man’s Path.” Another example could be a path that stands for the power of love and the effect of unselfishness that makes one continue with life like the one represented in “A Worn Path.” An additional example could be a path that stands for overcoming doubts of beliefs as these may uphold or tear one apart like the path represented in “Young Goodman Brown.” No path is easier than another and they all hold a spectacular significance in each person’s life. Therefore, in this independent

After reading “The Place Where I Was Born”, I look at life in a different way. 2.

In Dillard’s “Living Like Weasels,” she provides us one way we can try to learn from nature and accept the advice it bestows upon us. Although this is not everything Mother Nature has to offer us, it is one step in the right direction towards enlightenment. In Grice’s “The Black Widow,” he provides us with one example from the many amazing parts of nature that we fail to comprehend. He shows us that although some things do not fit into our idea of a perfect world, we should still marvel at the mysterious workings of nature. If you take the time to stop and smell the roses, you will be fascinated by the various lessons our complex world has to offer us and awed by the aspects of it we have no reasonable explanations

Elton Pope states, “When you’re a kid, they tell you it’s all… Grow up, get a job, get married, get a house, have a kid, and that’s it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It’s so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better”. Throughout one’s personal timeline, events in which occur in what seems like random happenstance are actually what help to shape one into the person they are destined to be. Times like these are often known as “stepping stones”, and take place in each individual’s lives. The cycle of life withholds three major events in which are touched upon in European literature. Appreciation of life, overcoming milestones, and facing death, are all well experienced events spread across

My life has always been a series of transitional phases that was as every-changing as the seasons themselves. The words of my literary heroes were my utmost comfort; they inspired my confidence and my character, and moved me to be a more visceral, understanding person. I believe that during my time I have been wizened, and connected to the roots of all humanity; in my imagination I see it as the growth of a sampling into the dampness of the earth and the jaded formation of rough bark. Ralph Waldo Emerson, whose transcendental views have inspired me, was once quoted as saying, “Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.” I believe that is true, and with every choice I’m reminded of that hopeful and assertive message.

Throughout our lifetime we go through a variety of challenging changes that may affect our future, Joseph O'Connor, a Lee high school graduate, and I are just a few of many examples. In his article, “A View from Mount Ritter”, O’Connor shares a horrific life changing experience on a two-week expedition in northeastern California. O'Connor a regular stubborn teenager, gets trapped in a frightening storm on the second week with another expeditioner. As soon as the storm starts to calm they starts to search for the driest place to set camp, realizing it was the worst night of his life O’Conner decides to turn his life around by turning his poor academic grades around and deciding to go to college. O'Connor's purpose is to inform and educate his readers to realize how precious life is and how it should not be taken for granted. He supports his purpose with a personal experience, concluding with “No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and how dear to his heart and eye morning can be”. Based on O'Connor's experience and my own, the quotation reveals a truth, a truth that people must endure a struggle in order to appreciate one's life.

In Annie Dillard’s essay “Living Like Weasels” she describes her encounter with a wild weasel. Dillard conveys the idea that humans live so much by choice it is becoming a burden, and that we need to live more through necessity. By focusing on purpose you will prosper more in life. Dillard stresses the idea that humans should live more like weasels by comparing man vs. nature and a weasel’s natural instinct.

Procrastination is the worst of all evils. One has a certain mindset, a goal to complete, but will perform actions that suggest quite the opposite. This backward thinking is apparent in even the most impeccable of individuals, and often prevails to prove the irony of human thought. Such inverted ideology is the latent message of Bridget Sprouls’ poem “Scout.” Through the extended metaphor of a Scout, the changing, eager tone, and the quaint yet urban setting of Austin, Texas, Sprouls demonstrates the conflict caused by maintaining a natural life that is separate from societal influences and the reliance of humanity on the aspects of society that constrain one from experiencing liberation into a native lifestyle.

Both of these poems serve to enlighten a new 21-year-old on how he should live his life, including similar messages of advice and warning. The narrators in each of these works speak of a proverbially “care-free” and affluent lifestyle, encouraging his respective

“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?” This quote from the play “Our Town” points out that many people do not potentially live life to the fullest. People always say “don’t wish your life away” because before you know it, it’s already gone. In the play “Our Town” there are many little life lessons that can be learned.

Making her way toward the sidewalk, she turned right on Doveland Drive. Without a car, Anita must walk two and a half miles to reach Forest Creek Lane, the predominantly upper-class part of town. As she walked, her stomach turned as if she had ridden a fast carnival ride and no matter what she tried to calm her nerves, her attempts were futile. When she reached the street, she couldn't help but stare in awe at the beautiful houses that lined it. Some had the latest car park in front, others had empty spaces while the owner was at work. Anita imagined handsome doctors carrying briefcases and housewives wearing wearing the latest fashions. Anita, at 22, still lived with her parents in the not-so-nice part of town, where houses where becoming dalapitated and the roads and sidewalks were cracked and never fixed. Always feeling as if she didn't belong where she lived, she often imagianed what it would be like to live as other

In her novel Clockwork Princess Cassandra Clare said, “Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.” This quote has entirely altered how I think about life. Life is unpredictable and uncertain; while it is easy to get frustrated when things don’t go according to plan, that benefits no one. Sometimes it is necessary to accept that the future is unknown and all one can do is try their best and keep going.