The Will To Survive Analysis

Compare how the theme of courage is explored in To Kill a Mockingbird and The Help?

The fairytale, “Hansel and Gretel” by the Grimm Brothers, is about two children who are left in the woods by their parents. While looking for a way back home, Hansel and Gretel stumble upon a house made of candy. That house is owned by a witch who eats children. Before being eaten, they outsmart the witch and escape, eventually finding their way back home. In the article, “ Habits of Highly Successful Survivors” by Laurence Gonzales, the author describes the 10 habits of highly successful survivors. In the fairytale, there is one character that is an effective survivor. That character is Hansel. He shows the survivor traits “take action” to trick the witch and to find the way back home and the “stay calm” trait to help comfort Gretel.

The way each of them come to terms with their grief and how they rise to the call of vengeance is one of the main contrasts between the three

Overcoming adversity has been one of my major themes throughout both essays. Building upon positive strengths and positive assess creates a path to optimism and resilience. One poem that comes to mind, entitled The Rose by Tupac Shakur symbolizes this journey.

Even when the weight of the world is coming down and doubt is setting in, there still are powers to help carry on. Louie Zamperini, a famous Olympic athlete, was dragged down to a low level when he was captured by Japanese forces and suffered under horrendous conditions in the many POW camps he stayed at. Throughout all of life’s trials, he survived, due to his strong resilience and agency. He wanted to live, and even though he may have wanted to give up, he had plenty of things to live for. In Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand uses both internal and external conflict to show the theme that people can stand up against enemies even when the odds seem stacked up against them.

In the books Candide, The Glass Menagerie, Their Eyes were Watching God, and My Name is Asher Lev written by Voltaire, Tennessee Williams, Zora Neale Hurston, and Chaim Potok, they are all discernibly different stories, yet they all appear to share the common theme of perseverance in varying degrees to find that happiness is not always awaiting them. I have found that the various symbolic language combined with each author’s different style of writing not only makes each story unique, but they also affect each reader’s perceptions.

Reading the novel Lone Survivor has shown me many ways from sticking to your roots and what brotherhood actually means. So far of what I have read in Lone Survivor is about a group of four guys who are highly classified Navy SEALS. Meaning they’re the best you can find in the United States military, or even in the world. Being a SEAL takes more determination than anything. They say you can’t break a SEAL for a reason. The SEALS are one of the major reasons why the United States military is so freighting to mess with. The author of the novel, Marcus Luttrell was in Afghanistan along the Pakistani boarder with Mike Murphy, Mathew “Axe” Axelson, and Danny Dietz. They were on a scouting mission for a Taliban target Ahmad Shad, who they’ve been looking to take out for years. On their scout they ran into goat herders who they thought were innocent citizens. Soon after they let the herders go, they all had an entire Taliban military ready to fight. While Marcus was bravely serving our country, he was also searching for his own identity and love for his family and country.

Within the book The Things They Carried, one of the most prominent central questions is that which questions a writer’s duties. What is a writer’s obligation to uphold different truths? This central question is perhaps the most prominent in The Things They Carried specifically because it is a story of storytelling, one in which the author himself admits to blurring the lines between truth and fiction for the sake of the story. In order to tell a good story, the author must completely convey it to the reader.

Between the two pieces of text, destiny and fate greatly affect the outcome for both of the

So it is that the main themes in both of these works are those of

The themes between the two narratives gives a guide to the reader on the focus for the author, which enables the reader to learn different views and have different emotions while reading the narratives.

The brave or defying acts in each story holds an affect on the other protagonists as well as the other characters in their era of time. This causes a ripple effect for others to also go against the nature

With hard work and determination, some of the characters save their lives, whereas others suffer death. With this being said, nature is whimsical. In both stories, instinct, strength, courage, and death play crucial roles amongst the characters.

Theme is an integral part of this story and is mostly presented through the narrator. One of the major themes of the story is conscience, in which many of the conflicts in the

Every soldier in the ARMY of the United States of America knows the following phrase from the Soldier’s Creed: “I will always place the mission first” (ARMY.mil). The aforementioned is arguably the most powerful line in the Soldier’s Creed and exists in different variants across the branches of the military. The life of a soldier is not an easy one, so it is to be expected that there will be times that a soldier will have to make difficult decisions. Sometimes these decisions will dictate between life and death. However, the Soldier’s Creed and other oaths alike, are promises not only to one’s country and those serving beside you, but also an agreement with oneself to carry the weight of what it takes to fulfill his/her country. In the movie, Lone Survivor, four Navy Seals made the decision to spare the lives of three men which ultimately resulted in the death of three of the four Seals and 16 rescuers. I believe that the decision they made contradicted the idea of “mission first” and a more aggressive decision should have been elected.