The Beauty Of Broken Things Textual Analysis

I leaned my head against the car window watching the leaves blowing around, just trying to distract myself from a slight feeling of emptiness inside of me. This feeling seemed all too familiar to me. My family and I had all of our possessions packed into boxes yet again. We were moving to a new state. At this point, up rooting our lives and starting over almost seemed more like a hobby than anything more significant. However, I have just now come to realize that what seemed like constant inconveniences in the past, have actually taught me how to be the best me with influences all around the country. Living in three different states and five homes may have been a challenge, but it provided me with memories that I wouldn’t trade for anything because those moments created the person I am today.

Richard Van Camp's, The Lesser Blessed, contains elements that classify the novel with both Indigenous and Modern genres. Featuring both genres in a text can lead to contradicting themes that form a binary. This binary has the potential to limit the extent readers can connect to the story, suggesting the presence of a barrier. Barriers hinder the readers' lack of understanding or relatability to either Indigenous or Modern works of literature. This paper will serve to analyze how Richard Van Camp deconstructs the binary by having the sides work together rather than against one another. Furthermore, this paper will discuss how by breaking down the binary, Richard Van Camp is allowing his novel to be accessible to all readers.

All the Broken Pieces, written by Ann E. Burg, is a verse novel about a young Vietnamese boy named Matt Pin who was rescued from the Vietnam war and adopted by an American family. The Vietnam war had a negative impact on Matt’s life, leaving him feeling guilty and abandoned. Although he was adopted by a loving family, being Vietnamese in America during this time period made him feel lonely.

After reading The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, I realized that my life isn’t as bad as I had originally thought. I have always known that there are people that have it way worse than me, but I know that I have not had an easy life, like I would prefer. Every family has their own problems otherwise they wouldn’t be a family. In The Glass Castle, Jeanette’s mother told her, “Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.” That is what I am trying to do. In some degree my life and Jeannette’s life are related; we both had ups and downs, but mostly downs, throughout our lives.

“You know what I’ve found out about disappointments? I think that if we face them down, they can become our strengths.” (Bauer 113) In the novel Hope Was Here written by Joan Bauer, the main characters go through some difficult struggles. One of the main people, Braverman and Addie both had to overcome disconsolate times. Braverman chooses family over education. Addie goes through hard times when she losses her husband along with three unborn babies. This reminds me of the time where my mother’s friend, like Addie, lost a child, and had to overcome that. While people go through difficult struggles everyday, they learn to learn and grow from them. Like William J. H. Boetcker said, “The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price

The theme of this novel is that even though you have experienced awful things in your life and has been screwed inside and out, you can still overcome the obstacles that stand in your way of success.

In Into the Wild, Krakauer alludes to the works of Leo Tolstoy, Henry David Thoreau, and Jack London to show how Chris McCandless’ infatuation with existentialist literature influenced his decision to leave society behind and venture into the wild.

As odd as it sounds, disasters can lead someone to become the best that they can be. In Piers Paul Read’s book Alive, the story is about the real life events of the survivors of Uruguayan Flight 571’s crash in the Andes and the events that led to their survival. Gregory Boyle’s Tattoos of the Heart, tells stories of Boyle's encounters with different “Homeboys” who grew up in dangerous parts of Los Angeles and how God helped him in his mission to help the kids. Through these two books, both stories have shown traits and conditions that lead to self actualization, the importance of the mind during harsh times, and similarities between both.

Hurdles and obstacles are the major building blocks of one’s character and stamina. When faced with troubles, some stumble and fall, others pick themselves up and grow from the experience. Without a doubt, there is a particular hurdle that has inevitably shaped the way I am today. This massive hurdle was none other than the transition from moving across the United States. Not only was the move an environmental change geographically, but culturally as well.

Janine Shepherd was an Australian cross country skier who had dreams of winning a winter Olympics gold medal. While she was training on a bike with her fellow teammates. A tragic accident happened: she was hit by a speeding truck and became paralyzed from the waist down. Her life was perfect until she had gotten into that tragic accident and broken every part of her body, and she didn’t want her body anymore because it was hopeless; however, she improved and learned how to walk but also learned how to fly. “A broken body isn’t a broken person.” Janine talks about how she didn’t want her body because it was broken and there wasn’t no point, but she makes a decision to give herself a second chance even though she has to rethink everything in

When we fall down, it takes resilience to get back up, because without resilience, what reason do we have to rise again? It was on March 14th, my 19th birthday, that I began making my way through Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatté’s The Resilience Factor. As a college freshman living away from home for the first time, I can use some advice on how to respond to adversity. This is why I picked up The Resilience Factor, despite being dubious of the “self-help” genre. A beautiful day at Griffith observatory, overlooking Hollywood, made for the perfect opportunity to learn how to keep going in the face of struggle. What more apt setting, where so many dreams are chased after for lifetimes, could there be to find the elusive key to resilience? After

Our lives sometimes may fall into a bundle of broken pieces. Somehow pride gets in the way and we try our best to fix it ourselves. We can do it, we think, and so we struggle to fix it ourselves. After several attempts, we realize there is nothing we have been able to do to fix our broken toy.

“There is so much division in this world. So what is really the path of healing? It can begin in this moment, by embracing the life that’s here,” Tara Brach. In the book The City of Glass, the movie Divergent, and in today 's society, people are told that they do not fit into a group and are forced to life on the outside.

It is my pleasure to first take this time with a warm welcome for making this your book of choice to read. With sincere gratitude my wife Jaclyn has been the front runner with the help of creating this journal. Several moments in our life we will all without a doubt find ourselves struggling. Either you’re currently in a mishap, headed or have dealt with a variety of some struggling circumstances. For each one of us comes the strength, stability and courage to overcome any obstacle encountered. Nevertheless, the obstacles and outcomes that come our way are completely and solely up to us as to how we handle each

Things Fall Apart revolves around a character named Okonkwo in NIgeria. Around this time European missionaries were on their way over spreading their beliefs and religion. Missionaries were a common occurrence in the 1800’s. THey went all over the globe converting them into whatever the missionaries were preaching about. European missionaries went to villages in Nigeria where they wanted to ‘help out the common folk who were ignorant’. They told the common folk in Nigeria that they were wrong for believing in a different religion than theirs. Okonkwo was one of the many few who wanted to fight against the missionaries. See, Okonkwo was not a follower. He was a leader. Yet the arrival of the missionaries changed that for him. At the end of his days he was taken captive and held for ransom. He was humiliated in front of six other great men. This event, sealed his fate.