Overcoming Adversity In A Trip For Mrs. Taylor

Adversities are a natural part of an individual’s journey through life, but what is it that empowers us to persist through such hardship despite feelings we have reached the end of our capacities? Perseverance. Perseverance is the foundation that enables individuals to push through challenging situations. Both the novel, Walking Home by Eric Walters and the novel The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis are two works of literature that prove how perseverance is the key foundation for individuals to pass barriers set in their way. Muchoki and Parvana are characters who both persevere through family trauma that hits their household, they are able to preserve getting over the discriminatory mental barriers within their damaged countries and additionally are able to persevere through the physical agony faced upon them in their journey.

The author and I both have a quality that helps us overcome difficult situations and to push through them while others may give up. I acknowledge that the problems I face everyday may not be as severe as Murray’s; however, the idea is still the same.

Life is full of challenges. In the stories, “Breaking Through Uncertainty-Welcoming Adversity” and “Neighbours,” written by Jim McCormick and Lien Chao, the main characters illustrate benefits derived from taking risks. Even though both people in these texts undergo personal challenges, in “Neighbours” the character, Sally, receives greater benefits from taking risks than McCormick in “Breaking Through Uncertainty-Welcoming Adversity”.

Imagine having the perfect life- you get into all honors classes, you get straight A’s, you are the first chair in the orchestra, you get into the A Cappella choir, you are on the varsity volleyball team, President of the Student Council, and you have a perfect home life. You have never had to face a single obstacle throughout your journey in life. When your whole life is like this, you do not know what failure feels like and will never experience the need to rise up after a downfall. There are many types of journeys one can take in life and dealing with obstacles has a prodigious impact on the outcome. The obstacles and hindrances are the things that shape us as we experience the ups and downs in life.

"The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure" - Sven Goran Eriksson. Success is an achievement in life which most people would be appreciative towards, but failure is looked upon in a disgraceful manner. People in society tend to face many challenges that occur in their daily lives. Some of these challenges can affect their lives dramatically in a positive or negative way. If one decides not to surmount their challenges they will suffer within themselves for a long period of time. Having confidence within is considered the greatest way to overcome suffering in life. In the novel, The Shipping News, by Annie Proulx, Quoyle deals with many difficult challenges along his life journey by suffering from bad childhood experiences

First,in ways, people overcome obstacles is keeping a positive attitude since when you have a positive attitude you are harder to discourage.An example of positive attitude while facing adversity would be in the text “A work in progress” where Aimee Mullin faces her adversity with humor like when she broke her wooden leg and while all the other people in that room were freaking out all she could think about was that her parents were going to kill her.I chose this example because out of all the stories we read in class about facing adversity Aimee Mullin struck me as the most positive about her obstacle.It’s important because it shows my point that with a positive attitude you don’t get discouraged as easily and like Aimee Mullin you can achieve whatever you wish no matter your adversity.Another example from “A work in progress” that shows positive attitude would be when Aimee Mullin got her new legs and was stating all the good qualities about her legs instead of being like oh I don’t this about them or

Each person goes through obstacles that occur many times in their lives, but some have difficult times dealing with it. Some people use different techniques to overcome these obstacles. In Everyone Leaves by Wendy Guerra, the protagonist Nieve is living from challenge to challenge. She feels comfortable and safe in her Diary, which has always been their for her especially in difficult times. Although many situations arise such as dealing with an abusive father, controlling boyfriend, and being left behind, Nieve finds a safe haven.

As renown American football coach, Vince Lombardi once said, “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will.” This quote depicts that if one does not have the drive within them to succeed they simply won’t. However, an individual who is determined can succeed with any complex task they are presented with. Therefore, the theme determination is a character trait that helps people to survive and succeed through life obstacles is developed into Nya’s and Salva’s sections in A Long Walk to Water and John and Martha's sections in Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping Civil War in Southern Sudan. In both novels, Nya, Salva, John, and Martha undergo various obstacles in which

However, there are many great people who had overcome adversity through being grit. For example, a famous author, J.K. Rowling is known for her best-selling series Harry Potter. However, Rowling was not rich or famous before the series, she faced many challenges throughout her life. Around the age of twenty-five, Rowling discovered that her mother died from a disease, later, she got married, but she struggled in her marriage with her husband, soon they got a divorce. In addition, Rowling was a single mother, who took care of her daughter on welfare. Through the struggle, wanting to commit a suicide, she decided to do something that she is very passionate about, writing. At this point, Rowling’s began to take a drastic turn for the better, the idea of writing a Harry Potter book. Years later, after she had finally finished the book, she sent it to an agent, but it got declined. Even though

This book as well as many others is inspiring in many ways and proves that in tough times you always need to find that positive and run with it. Don’t dwell on the negatives because life will be so difficult. Things happen and people change in ways we don’t want them to and that is just how it

Many of us in our life’s have difficulties with something we have or had to overcome to make us a better or a worse person. These are the trials in our life that makes us the way we are and shape our personal outlook of the world. Many of the most influential people such as Malcolm X, Martin Lurther King Jr, John Brown, and Michael Jordan has had some situations they had to overcome to be on top. Malcolm X couldn’t read until he taught himself how to, Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, these are just little examples. The difficulties I had to overcome were mostly when I was a little kid in which I lived in Mississippi.

Adversity can be seen in many different ways. Some people look at adversity as a learning experience, while others view adversity as a situation marked with misfortune. When a person is faced with adversity, rather than viewing it as something to hate, they should see it as a opportunity to grow. In the stories by Doris Lessing, W.D Wetherell and Alice Walker, they all show different types of challenges each character had to over come and their journey to do so. These stories all shared similar outcomes, they demonstrate how each character used an obstacle they were faced with, and turned it into a beneficial experience and how it shaped them into the person they are today.

Everyone experiences moments of suffering at one point in their lives. These moments can be referred to as obstacles. These obstacles, when not overcome, can be detrimental to the physical and mental well being of someone. In A Narrative of the Captivity, Mary Rowlandson describes being a Puritan captured by Indians as a result of King Philip’s war during the 17th century. Not only did she have to live alongside the Indians as a prisoner, but she was also captured and separated from her children. In The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Equiano and his sister were kidnapped and traded among various households as servants. Every time Equiano managed to ease the pain, he was deprived from the alleviation, such as the time he was separated from his sister. Both authors suffered a great amount due to the fact that they lost important people in their lives and were filled with terror at the mere thought of being held captive. The difference between these two stories is the means they use to try to overcome their obstacles.

Through a life one can agree that success isn't a straight shot. There are hardships that will inhibit a person from their goal. With hard work one can live a “Life Almost Straight”. Most pieces under the unit name of “Life Almost Straight”; College Should Be an Adventure” by John Roush, “Peanuts” by Charles Schultz, and “Construint” by Efrai to name the key ones to be mentioned; collectively show a literal or interpretive hardship. Hardship is important for the Human Condition because hardship helps those who face it develop skills to further persevere past the opposing force and continue to surpass and succeed within life. The previously listed works have key connections to the collective unit name as well as to the Human Condition, as to be discussed.

Everyone seems to think the kind of hardship you’ve been thru describes your character. But in reality, it is what you do with that hardship that really shows it. In Margaret Peterson Haddix’s “Running out of time” a young girl, by the name of Jessie, has to leave her village in order to help everyone. She leaves because she has to go get medicine and has to stop her friends from dying. This was her hardship and she chose to deal with it by helping out.