Hero's Test Vs Hope

It is the story of a band of refugees attempts to escape the World War Two battlefield with nothing but hope and each other. The most obvious example of a character depending on hope to survive is Emilia, a fifteen year old Polish girl. Emilia probably has the worst experience of all the people in the novel, but she is rarely unhappy. This probably has to do with how much hope she had of survival. Throughout the journey she is always remembering her childhood in Poland and using that as motivation to continue. While reflecting on her time in Poland, she whispers, “There were no ghettos no armbands. I often fell asleep to a breeze floating through my open window. It’s true. It was like that once” (Sepetys 268). Another example of Emilia relying on hope to make it through the journey is her mental reaction to being pregnant. While the real story is extremely disturbing, Emilia tells herself that the baby’s father is the boy who she lived with before the war. That story is what gets her through the war because the moments where she remembers that the real father is a Russian soldier, she becomes depressed and scared. However, Emilia wasn’t the only person who relied on hope to get through the journey. Florian has an entirely different story of his own, and hope plays just as big of a role. He is a German soldier who has a plan to go against Hitler. The reason he is going on this

Hope is a topic in which the consequences can be favorable or a let down. In "Prometheus the Firebringer", when Zeus includes the wisp of hope in Pandora's jar of evils, the question arises that was the purpose of putting it in there showing that hope is evil or its purpose is to help us overcome evil? Many aspects need to be taken into consideration when deciding whether hope is used to defend against the evil of the world or if it is the evil of the world.

Throughout all of the texts, the main character shines a factor of perseverance in their story in order to have hope and overcome their odds. The protagonists in each text are determined to overcome their obstacles and receive a favorable ending. In Emily Dickinson’s poem, she uses a metaphor to portray hope as a bird that is constantly helping other people. Even though hope is not a tangible thing, the bird perseveres through every situation and “never stops at all,” when aiding people in tough times. Likewise, in the article by Mark Memmot, Alice Herz- Sommer pushes through Nazi imprisonment in hopes of seeing her family again. The author writes, “Despite all that has befallen her, Alice insists that she has never, ever hated the Nazis,

It could be when you’re taking a big test that will determine if you get accepted to a school, or it could be when you have a family or friend sick and you believe that they will be all right no matter what you see happening. Without hope, there would be no motivation or strength of will to withstand hardships. There would be no long term goals, no direction, no comfort, no value or meaning. Hope is the vessel that carries a person through life. Even if some bad things may happen, you will be successful in some way or another, just like how Lina married Andrius in the very end, even after both of her parents died while she was suffering in the cold while being forced to work. Lina’s hope carried her to what she wanted, what she believed in all along. And that’s the thing about hope, you will come to a closure just like Lina

Though this is the formal definition, hope goes much deeper than what is on the surface. In the book, “Hope in the Age of Anxiety”, by Anthony Scioli and Henry Biller they proclaim that, ‘‘Hope is a very basic human strength without which we couldn’t stay alive” (25, 26). So you see hope is not only vital to our daily routine but to our existence as well. Hope is the unseen motivation to carry us through and keep us connected with day to day life. Which is evident in this quote also from Mr. Scioli and Mr. Biller, “we look for hope to sustain us, whenever and wherever we can” (18).

What is hope? I think hope is a feeling of wanting something to happen. According to Lisel Mueller, written in 1976, her poem “Hope” is about how hope could be found everywhere and is part of everything, even in the roughest situations. I think the theme of this poem is that hope is present, even if it is extremely hard to find. Mueller uses many metaphors to describe hope as if it were something else.

Hope is a key aspect that is portrayed within both of the books. It is presented as something that was essential and without it nothing could have been

As discussed in my first essay, the virtue of hope is “crucial for attaining any other virtue” as well as “the inseparable part of human nature.” However, sometimes a burden of harsh and unpredictable circumstances causes the unfortunate to doubt hope. In that case, according to Mary Wollstonecraft, others should disregard their “ignorance and mistaken self-interest” to help the unfortunate regain the essential virtue of hope (Wollstonecraft, 211). Furthermore, as Niccolo Machiavelli emphasizes, when disregarding their self-interest, the ones helping should not only appear to be hopeful, but also demonstrate hope in their actions (Machiavelli, 203). But how is the virtue of hope demonstrated to others? By looking at the work of Mary Wollstonecraft

In the first stanza, "Hope is the Thing with Feathers," Dickinson has made use of metaphorical bird image to explain the conceptual idea of hope (Dickinson & McNeil 2002). Hope is not a conscious thing, it is lifeless, but by offering hope feathers, the poet creates an image in people's minds. The feathers imagery invokes hope they represent hope as feathers enable a person to fly and give the picture of flying away to another new hope and a new dawn. In disparity, broken feathers and wrecked wing grounds an individual and symbolizes the image of a poor person who has gone through difficult life challenges. The experiences results to their wings being broken making them loose the power to have hope for the future.

Hope is an important concept to understand to comprehend the impact that it has on societies and political actors. Edgoose defines it as “Hope, to give the most encompassing definition, must be seen in its connection with possibility and not inevitability or expectation.

Emily Dickinson uses a metaphor to draw a conclusion between a bird and hope. This metaphor appears in the line, “ And sweetest - in the Gale is heard-/And sore must be the storm-/That could abash the little Bird/That kept so many warm-” (5-8) When Dickinson says “ And sore must be the storm-”, she is making a comparison in order to express the idea that it is difficult to kill hope. This contributes to the theme because the theme is that hope never dies. Even if the storm is very hard to overcome and there is no reason to be hopeful, hope is still there.

Hope is a lot of things that we use today. Today, I hoped that I would pass my chemistry test and at most only be insufficient in one class. A lot of people use hope just like me when I took the test. Another example is, our basketball team hopes to win and I hope I won't have to go to summer school. Hope is a big things that we should never let go, if you do no one will like the consequences.

What is hope? Merriam-Webster Dictionary gives the word multiple definitions from; to cherish a desire with anticipation, to expect with confidence, or the feeling of wanting something to happen and thinking that could happen. To me hope has a very simple meaning as well as represents a very simple thing that all humans are capable of. To me hope means and is desire. Regardless of whether it is seen as a noun, verb, or concept, that very definition and understanding is universal throughout. Anyone and everyone is capable of desire, therefore no one can really be immune from feeling hope. To say such would also mean that everyone is susceptible to despair, which is known and defined as “a state in which there is an absence or loss of hope”. However despite the very thin line that divides the two, we as a people choose to believe in hope, holding it at such high esteemed standards. Personally I never believed in hope, as I saw it as a double-edged sword that society fell upon time and time again over the centuries. However over the course of the semester as we explored tragedy after tragedy, as well as tried to grab an understanding of what is true evil and suffering, we never failed to (especially towards the end of the semester) find the bright end at the end of the tunnel that represented hope. That in particular stood out to me, and that’s why I decided to further investigate the topic as well as consummate, backup, and solidify my belief and understanding of the word

The first line introduces the extended metaphor saying, “’Hope’ is the thing with feathers.” The metaphor in the first line leads us to question, what is hope?  In the first line Dickinson is suggesting that hope is more than just a feeling it is something physical, in this case, a bird. Each part of the bird has meaning in this poem whether it be its actions its or its physical appearance. Hope relates to a bird a lot more than one would think. Feathers are what makes a bird fly, they protect the bird and keep it safe. If a wing is broken, then the bird is most likely going to die because it cannot fly anywhere. If a person is broken it means that they have no hope and if there is no hope inside someone’s soul, then are they really living?

“ ‘Hope’ is the Thing with Feathers” is a poem that demonstrates hope as something wonderful and greatly underappreciated that resides within an individual’s soul. Emily Dickinson conveys this theme through her use of multiple literary devices, predominantly diction, metaphor and imagery.