Jarold: A Hero's Journey

The Trees mirrors life and its hardships with, “No, they die too” and language like, “grief”. Similarly, the poet also emphasises that the nicer side of things; new chances, “coming into leaf” or, “being born again” are “tricks” or illusions. However, the poem does end on a happier note with “begin afresh, afresh, afresh”. Larkin’s message is that while there are good things in life, quite often they are not all that they seem.

Society often fail to understand and see the mental pain that individuals carry throughout their lives. Some people bear its burden, while others suffer greatly because of it, to the point of choosing self-destruction. The narrators from “The Gargoyle” (Davidson) and “Walk to Morning” (Boyden) both experience this pain that ultimately sets them on a course to a deep pit. They survive their near-deaths and later encounter unique life-changing people. As a result, they become better individuals.

The night air was heavy with silence. Clouds drifted across a calm sky, and a full moon shone in the distance. In a small hut on the outskirts of the valley, an old man lay in bed, awake in the peaceful slumber of the village. His breaths came in rattling gasps, his forehead burned, and his joints felt stiff with pain. He shifted on the blankets, his withered hands clenched in fists as he tried to suppress the wave of bitter memories coming to him. His life had been nothing more than work, loss, tragedy. He remembered all of his hope, his ambition, in his youth, and he smiled bitterly. No one would remember him as the man that he had once hoped he would become. Now, as his breathing became heavier and he felt himself fading on the brink of

The theme of this novel is to look at the good you do in life and how it carries over after your death. The moral of the book is; "People can make changes in their lives whenever they really want to, even right up to the end."

Although the symbols are simplistic, they aid the reader’s understanding of Gene’s struggles as a young adult. For example, the tree shows Gene’s change in thoughts as an adult revisiting Devon versus when he was a teenager attending Devon. Furthermore, the summer and winter months explain the difference in the mood and tone at Devon and how it affected the students and Gene, especially. Lastly, Finny’s fall illustrates how Gene matures from one simple incident and affects his views of the world for the rest of his life. In conclusion, many events and objects, including the tree, the summer and winter months, and Finny’s fall, majorly affected Gene’s life and helped to shape his

“The rain this mourning pours from the gutters and everywhere else it is lost in the trees. You need your glasses what you know is there because doubt is inexorable; you put on your glasses. The trees, their bark, their leaves, even the dead ones, are more vibrant wet. Yes, and it’s raining. Each moment is like this—before it can be known, categorized as similar to another thing and dismissed, it has to be experienced, it has to be seen. What did he just say? Did she really just say that? Did I hear what I think I just heard? Did that just come out of my mouth, his mouth, your mouth? The moment sinks. Still you want to stop looking at the trees. You want to walk out and stand among them. And as light as the rain seems, it still rains down on you.” (page 9)

At first he is overjoyed with the way things are turning out, but soon he feels the harsh reality life away from society. While with Rainy and the other hippies, he finds joy in the bonds he builds and the pain of everyday trifles is more easily bearable when shared. But once he is off again on his own, he truly suffers with every happening, all the more intense with no one to assist him or even to speak to. When he kills a moose, flies and maggots battle to destroy all the meat before he can get a chance to cook it for himself, and he’s furious, but with no one to rant to. As he tries to cross the river to get away from the wilderness, it nearly drowns him, and he’s stuck by himself, scribbling down, “lonely, scared” in his journal. When he mistakenly eats inedible sweet peas and is faced with inevitable death, nature is suddenly perceived as the enemy, unable to assist him, and he writes, “have literally become trapped in the wild”. The brutality of nature and pains of solitude truly show the downside to his transcendental ways, and seem to make him realize that nature isn’t all beauty and

Jayber talk about lose with his parents dying . After his parent die he go to stay with his aunt and uncle until they die. Jayber handle eveything that was throw at him without anyone help but his

In his early years, Darry had the chance to become very successful in his life. He had friendly brothers and loving parents. He was also very talented. He was once “golden”, but his parent’s sudden death took it all away. Darry's perspective of life changed as he had been given the job to provide his brothers with what they needed.

As humans, we all go through different challenges at some point in life. The main character, Tree-ear was not an exception. He had to deal with the death of Crane-man and robbery during the trip to Songdo. However, over times he has proved to himself that he was able to get out of depression and move on. The author makes Tree-ear face challenges and wins “mental battles”, in order to teach the audience the importance of seeing hardships as opportunities in life. Not only the lesson from the author reminds the importance of overcoming life struggles but also will encourage the audience to turn the biggest challenges into the biggest successes in

In this way, he is prompting himself for the misfortunes the life will throw at him in the future. Moreover, the self-knowledge he acquired from the incident is a huge deviation from the sheltered life he used to have back in the North, and this is a one step forward to becoming a great man that his parents want him to be.

This essay is about “Everything Will be Okay”, a story written by James Howe that is about a young boy who found a kitten in the woods but his brother and mother are against keeping it. The lesson he learns is that the boy in the story has to learn a lesson the that he can take his own path, and that he shouldn’t be someone he isn’t. Some of our worst moments inspire us to get over it and become something new. People have been down that path before, so those people get how he feels. For they are stuck with an internal struggle along with the narrator.

As she is developing, she is tantalized by the societal norms he represents. She is ready to give up the backwoods (a symbol of herself) for all he (a symbol of society) has to offer. Convinced of that, she sets off to find the secret of the elusive white heron and in order to find the heron, she had to climb to what was literally the top of the world for her, the top of the pine tree. The world from the top was different than the city and it was different from the woods at ground level. From the top her perspective about the world changed, it was vast and awesome, and she understood her place in it more than before. She understood it to mean more than to sacrifice her own self for the gifts this man had to offer that were tantalizing but incapitable with her personality and true self.

experiences a realization about life when there is an incident with a dog. The narrator then expresses his

I have written this because I have had a lot of hardships and worse than imaginable. It shows how you have the storms which are the hardships that bring you down and only when they end is it ok, though it still goes on always for me, for most people it's only for a very short period of time. It talks about a dove singing which means for me when I sing or hear someone singing it makes me feel better. The forest represents a path to a new place and though you want to go back to where you started when you get to the new place things will be different but you have to adjust and make things the way you know as well as learn to live the new way. I have used metaphors, imagery and personification in this