Excerpts Of Going Solo Essay

We lost the ability to be still, our capacity for idleness. They have lost the ability to be alone, their capacity for solitude. (The end of solitude, pg.4)

A saying i've kept to myself is to get back up when knocked down. This saying doesn’t just stand for getting up when literally knocked down but can keep a deeper meaning than what it says as for example being knocked down by a difficult obstacle to overcome and getting up to find a way to get past it and achieving it. Some people may not see this as something important but they don’t think about how getting up after knocked down can be something that can or would have been like a positive outcome into their life and how they are given two choices when knocked down which is to stay down or get back up and continue going forward.

Images of confinement and escape in “The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin. Is shown all throughout the story, Mrs. Mallard felt trapped she did not seem happy at all. The feeling of freedom seemed to take over Mrs. Mallard body. Her exhaustion seems to confine her so when Mrs. Mallard heard the news about her husband. All she could think of is being alone and confining herself in a room where she can express how she truly feels. Mrs. Mallard felt tied down and exhausted from being trapped. Instead of her

The poet orders his listener to behold a “solitary Highland lass” reaping and singing by herself in a field. He says that anyone passing by should either stop here, or “gently pass” so as not to disturb her. As she “cuts and binds the grain” she “sings a melancholy strain,” and the valley overflows with the beautiful, sad sound. The speaker says that the sound is more welcome than any chant of the nightingale to weary travelers in the desert, and that the cuckoo-bird in spring never sang with a voice so thrilling. Impatient, the poet asks, “Will no one tell me what she sings?” He speculates that her song might be about “old, unhappy, far-off things, / And battles long ago,” or that it might be humbler, a simple song about “matter of today.” Whatever she sings about, he says, he listened “motionless and still,” and as he traveled up the

Throughout the vivid text of Mrs. Trask, Steinbeck expresses her as a Timshel-less human. As he talks of her wild actions, confessing “to crimes she could not possibly have committed” (Steinbeck 15) and drowning “herself in a pond so shallow that she had to get down on her knees” (Steinbeck 15) the reader is able to discover that she is a woman struck with evil. As learned later in the book, Timshel means thou mayest, giving man the decision to

People are often told to be themselves as a way of embracing their uniqueness. This seems to not be true since conformity and lack of individualism is a big issue with society. The issue of what led Christopher McCandless, main character from Into the Wild by John Krakauer, to go on a search to find himself. In the author’s note of the novel, Krakauer introduces the term ‘schools of thought’. In the case of this book, there are two; one being that some people said it was a suicide mission and the other being that others disagreed saying he was ambitious. The story demonstrates one man’s attempt to define a lifestyle and find meaning in his life that came from something outside materialistic and civilized contemporary

"Miss Trefusis was all bones and grey skin, and when she walked her body was bent forward in a long curve like a boomerang" (The Voyage Out, 32.2). From what Dahl wrote about Miss Trefusis she was a rather dotty person, while she was talking with Dahl she was eating an orange. But not just peel and eat, no she was intricately cutting the barrier around the fruit with her knife, after that she would use her knife and fork and peel away the segments. She would then cut the fruit delicately and eat them with her fork. Dahl had asked 'Do you always eat an orange like that?’ (The Voyage Out, 43) and she responded with ‘I never touch anything I eat with my fingers,' (The Voyage out, 46) "They're full of bugs. Disgusting dirty things, fingers. Just think what you do with them!" (The Voyage Out, 52) She believes that if you don’t sterilize

Throughout the chapter Roald describes Miss Trefusis as generous and impatient. According what I've read, Dahl claims "I felt she would come out to my rescue at anytime." (The Voyage Out, 83). In other words, this statement immediately shows that Roald has the train of thought that Miss Trefusis brings a positive thought in his head about having his back. Secondly, Roald also claims that Miss Trefusis is also impatient. Furthermore, Dahl shows description that she is impatient when he claims " Fingers are just implements" (The Voyage Out, 54). In the last statement Dahl tells us that Miss Trefusis can't handle finger and neither does she like toes, which makes her disgusted in the fact her having them. Lastly, Dahl shows description when he states "I liked Miss Trefusis. She was impatient, intelligent, generous and interesting" (The Voyage Out, 83). Which specifically indicates his thought about Miss

One cold sunny weekend in February of 2014 in Madison, MS the Saint Stanislaus boys just arrived to the hotel where they would stay for the night before the big game. All was good the night before we ate and later went to sleep. We all woke up around eight in the morning and had breakfast. We left for the fields around twelve because the game was at two in the evening.

What are the similarities of both Mdisho and Mrs. Trefusis? They are both odd and mysterious on what they do. Mdisho has done things in the story that makes him odd and crazy. Mrs. Trefusis had done some odd and weird things too. Mdisho and Mrs. Trefusis described by Dahl they are both odd.

To begin with, Young Roald Dahl meets a special woman named Miss Trefusis during his adventure to Mombasa. A trait that Miss Trefusis can be described as in the text is unique. Miss Trefusis is concluded to be unique because she doesn't use her hands to eat. According to the text, Paragraph 42 on sentences 2-5 ("The Voyage Out") Roald stated, "She speared it from the bowl with a fork instead of using her fingers." He then continues on with,"And now, with knife and fork,

At times in life there comes something called change. In my opinion, I was not a big fan of change. You cannot imagine how I was feeling when my mother announced that we were moving. It was the middle of my sixth-grade year, I was feeling countless emotions, none that could be explained at the moment of the announcement. The main thing on my mind was school; my friends, my outstanding teachers, and the environment. All things I had left behind. All I could think about was, “How will I ever adjust?” I knew exactly what was to come, I knew exactly what I was going to become, an outcast. There were numerous of ways on why I was feeling this way, but

The “early pioneer of science fiction” American writer during the 1800s, Edgar Allan Poe, is widely known for casualties, “premature burials, mysterious women who return from the dead” and decaying love (“Poe’s life”). Because of his writing style, Poe was dubbed “Father of the Detective Story” (“Biography.com Editors”). Poe was an unhappy and alone man, whose life was filled with mental illness and death. Poe has earned his reputation by writing his short stories filled with “tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry” (“Poe’s life”), such as “The Raven” and “Alone.” All the poems Poe has written seem to have at least one, if not more, familiar qualities: they all have a mournful, deserted mood. In his poem,

Magic realism is a writing style in which mythical elements are put into a realistic story but it does not break the narrative flow; rather it helps a reader get a deeper understanding of the reality. Often time’s Latin-American writers utilize this writing technique. It has been speculated by many critics that magic realism appears most often in the literature of countries with long histories of both mythological stories and social turmoil, such as those in Central and South America. Like many Latin-American writers, Gabriel Garcia Marquez used this approach of magic realism, in his book “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, in which he reveals the history of Macondo through the seven generations of the

"No man is an island." This famous quotation explains the nature of man as a social being. It is truly a fact that human beings cannot exist in isolation. They need to be interdependent with each other in order to survive. This interdependence is needed because a human being alone will not be able to fill his own social needs, and his material necessities came from other people as well. All acts of society such as sex, love, and dependence are essential for the survival of any species. Interaction and socialization is the only way to prevent people from isolation, from solitude.