The Theme Of Loneliness In The Ascent By Ron Rash

We all deal with alienation, both internal and external, throughout our lives: it is an unavoidable condition that universally afflicts all humans. However, oftentimes we can alienate ourselves from other people more than is necessary, putting a divide between us and the rest of humanity by no fault but our own. Both John and Amir in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner face great internal struggles with alienation throughout their whole lives, many times making things worse for themselves than is needed, and forging their characters by fire; yet the natures of their hardships are inherently different, leading the protagonists down two disparate paths: one to personal triumph and the other to tragedy.

In the story “The Ascent,” Ron Rash begins the story with vivid imagery to set the calm, yet slightly unsettling scene of a young boy playing with his imaginary friend(s). Jared initially can be perceived as the average curious boy searching for the one thing no one else could find, a missing airplane. His imagination and situational aspects led to his decisions in the story. Jared was lost not physically, but mentally; he had no one to comfortably confide in and trust. His life was not an easy one as he dealt with both peer pressure and seclusion from home and school; he only felt safe behind the barriers of his mind and the misplaced airplane. Jared’s drug addicted parents had a negative effect on Jared’s mental and physical livelihood, resulting

Loneliness is sadness because one has no friends or company as portrayed in the different selections The characters words, actions and events emphasized a deeper meaning of the context of the stories which depicted “loneliness “as symbolism from ones point of view. Isolation can really have an effect on ones

Jack becomes stuck in paradoxical structures in which the only escape from his fear of death augments it in the long term. Amongst his escapes are consumption of goods and disaster images. Through his consumerism, Jack salves his psychological distress, as the fleeting catharsis takes his mind off the ever-looming gloom. Similarly, Jack’s viewing of disaster images makes death seem more distant, belonging

Loneliness is a central emotion while growing up. Joyce uses darkness to express this emotion. In the first few lines of the story, Joyce describes a bleak scene of his childhood neighborhood and home via the nameless

The falling of a parachute represents something much deeper then the written text. The pulling and slacking of the parachutes strings shows how basic responsibilities may take priority over original thought and pull actions in different directions. The idea of being an adult comes with many challenges and commitments that need to be regulated. This includes balancing work, play, and a family. Being stranded, these young boys do not have the norms of society, changing and molding them to be adults. This lack of responsibility and actual leadership gives them a false sense of adulthood, and what they perceive to be the freedom of age. Having responsibilities can give a perception that adulthood is near because most children are taught that having

every person will feel their impact at some point in life. As common as they are to the human experience, each person’s experience with loneliness and disappointment is uniquely individual.

As a child, Jack’s life was extremely structured and contained. Ma was Jack’s source for everything, including his survival. When Ma took a “gone day,” Jack coped with her lack of response by withdrawing into his own world, reading, drawing, watching TV, and sleeping. As Jack grew, his inner resources of creativity and imagination increased and helped him to cope with his isolation and anxiety. When Jack finally experienced the vast world of people and spaces, Ma remained his only real interpersonal connection. When Ma attempted suicide and left Jack alone for an extended period, he once again retreated to his inner world, playing in a closet.

McEwan thus catapults the reader directly into the tormented mental world of Jack. We then only observe the external world of Jack and his siblings from his single viewpoint. All is filtered through his lonely and questionable perception. McEwan thus leaves it to the reader to analyse the action of the novel from the filter of Jack's naïve, twisted but prevailing perspective. This creates a sense of the claustrophobia that pervades the boy's world. The discomfort that readers feel parallels and prepares them for Jack's anguished, alienated and contained inner world. The family, even before the parents' death, is divided within itself and isolated from other people. Thus Jack's lonely voice lends the narration an air of obsessive and unhealthy emphasis on the very factors that create, generate and sustain the isolated obsessions dominating this family.

In “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” by Hemingway and "Miss Brill" by Katherine Mansfield what they both have in common is the literary device theme loneliness. Theme is the general idea or insight revealed in a narrative. These two stories are also different from the style of writing these two authors wrote how to tell their stories.

The passage displays that the Community is very strict, when a plane flies off course and everyone is ordered to go indoors. The speaker soon states that the pilot will be released, and Jonas’ unsettling experience ends.

“He cheerfully inhabits a world that seems frightening to us. His barren room contains a blackboard with the next day's tasks on it; he works as a janitor at a bakery where his "friends" torment him. With heartbreaking persistence, he attends night classes and takes guided tours of the city, but the things he learns all slip away and he has to keep starting again” (Ebert).

A dusty pile of magazines could be found stacked inside Francheska Gatpayat’s house. But she hasn’t got any interest reading fitness articles. Neither she wants to read about the current trends in clothing. Instead, she would browse these magazines for pictures and cut them out.

Isolationism is a thing many newcomers and younger children come across. Many struggle to find themselves in a new world or in a new role as they grow older. Everybody reacts to this isolationism, or loneliness, in a different way. Some shelter themselves from the world around them, some become depressed, and some don’t even realize their despair till it is shown in front of them. Once Elliot see’s the loneliness Mrs. Sen is struggling with, he too begins to feel his own feelings of being alone from his own family. The narrator portrays this perfectly when Mrs. Sen asks Elliot is he is afraid to be a part from his mother for so long. Elliot responds

“You got to go because it’s not safe—”. So in the story Lord of the Flies by WILIAM GOLDING showed how kids can change so quick. It showed how being stuck in an island can turn the most innocent kids into savages. The story is on a lot of little kids and how their plane was shot down by a World War 2 fighter plane and that’s how they got stuck in an island in the pacific. The character this essay will be about is Jack. The character traits that Jack well there is so many but i choosed to do natural leader,savage, and hardheaded.