What is Hope?

“You don't understand the power of loss when it first hits you like a baseball coming fast from an out-of-control pitcher. You reel back stinging from the blow.” (Bauer,162). Throughout the novel Hope Was Here we see characters go through struggles and gain strength to overcome them. In our everyday lives we have struggles that we also have to overcome. In the novel Hope Was Here, one of the characters Braverman has to choose his family or education. The character Addie, faces the struggle of miscarrying three babies. In my life I have struggles and so do the people around me. For instance, my grandma went through the struggle of losing her husband. From this novel it is learned that if there's no struggle there's no strength.

Exemplar case: Kathy is a married 45-year old mother of one and she has recently been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Kathy has always been a positive person in every situation and is quite known at her church for her smile and uplifting words of encouragement. Kathy’s husband and teenage daughter came to visit her at the hospital and were initially shocked and saddened by her sickly appearance. Her husband

The reason why most people don't have hope is because they think it's going to mess up things and make things worse. In the book fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson, the 2 main characters Mattie (Matilda) cook and Eliza. Which are both in the world of Philadelphia of yellow fever. When grandfather dies and mother gets the sickness. And both of them try to survive this deadly virus/disease. It might not be a likely thing that Mattie would do but she has hope that things will get better.

Hope and Faith ties into a lot of things, courage, fate, and ultimately religion. It can one way someone can preserve themselves. But once those values disappear, a character may start to lose their

Hope is surprisingly difficult to define and may be expressed in many ways. Overall, I feel that a good definition for hope would be that it is an optimistic and expectant desire that emerges from a stressor. It is a coping mechanism deeply rooted in motivation. It is the opposite of despair and fear as well as the influence that keeps us from succumbing to them. Hope can be identified as a means of perseverance as well as perseverance itself. Hope is the ability to detect even the smallest amount of light in the darkest of places.

In her article “The Arc of Justice and the Long Run” Rebecca Solnit refers to hope as, “a sense of the grand mystery of it all, the knowledge that we don’t know how it will turn out, that anything is possible.” (Solnit, P.9). Solnit’s definition reflects her attitude towards politics and social justice in that she realizes that not everything is in our control. Adding to the previous statement, we can only try our best to change things for the better because you can never know just how things will turn out. In the political arena, us as Americans can cast our vote to elect the person we see fit to take care of running our country and providing a safe place for our families. However, it was not always this way even in our country and worse so

Hope, the important word in our daily life, it keeps us walking, searching even exploring. It makes us loving and leads bright. In the story Fever 1793, by Laurie Halse Anderson. The author shows the strong word, hope. A girl named Mattie lived in the family coffee shop with her mother and grandfather during 1793.

It is the story of a band of refugees attempts to escape the World War Two battlefield with nothing but hope and each other. The most obvious example of a character depending on hope to survive is Emilia, a fifteen year old Polish girl. Emilia probably has the worst experience of all the people in the novel, but she is rarely unhappy. This probably has to do with how much hope she had of survival. Throughout the journey she is always remembering her childhood in Poland and using that as motivation to continue. While reflecting on her time in Poland, she whispers, “There were no ghettos no armbands. I often fell asleep to a breeze floating through my open window. It’s true. It was like that once” (Sepetys 268). Another example of Emilia relying on hope to make it through the journey is her mental reaction to being pregnant. While the real story is extremely disturbing, Emilia tells herself that the baby’s father is the boy who she lived with before the war. That story is what gets her through the war because the moments where she remembers that the real father is a Russian soldier, she becomes depressed and scared. However, Emilia wasn’t the only person who relied on hope to get through the journey. Florian has an entirely different story of his own, and hope plays just as big of a role. He is a German soldier who has a plan to go against Hitler. The reason he is going on this

It is hope, he writes, that brought settlers to North America, that helped the first people avoid freezing in the Ice Age, and helped some survive the Holocaust. In history, Watkins emphasizes, one finds stories of people continuously succeeding in the face of hardship, stories that can help one maintain an optimistic mindset. Hope and optimism, once learned, can be as the essay suggests, “a shield against fate and it’s consequences” and the fuel one needs to keep going into the future, with the belief that everything will turn out

Yes, hope is the thought that things will eventually turn out in a positive way, but it is also much more than that, as described in “The Will and Ways

In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley convey us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has prosper for 120 years.

Humans have hope in people individually and the world as a whole. The theme of hope as underlying human nature is seen in Charles Schultz Peanuts, Sorrow Teeming With Light by Gabriel Shaffer and Construint by Efrai.

A man by the name of Desmond Tutu once said that, “ Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” When suffering or in sadness, hope has the power to give a person strength and optimism. It is a way to escape reality and give people a glimpse of what joy may look like. Having too much hope; however, can be dangerous and blind someone of reality. The novel Krik?

“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness” (Tutu). This quote by Desmond Tutu speaks about how, having hope can bring light that will break through the darkness. Throughout the history, humans have been shrouded in darkness, within the darkness, they cannot see the truth of what is happening in front of them. Furthermore, in his Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness, the darkness comes out from within all the characters that Conrad has created. In Conrad’s novel, Heart of Darkness, he uses the literary elements of symbolism, characterization, and setting to illustrate the them, when humans are surrounded by darkness it can be difficult for them to see the truth.

Desmond Tutu once said: “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” As stated in the quote, the feeling of hope motivates people to look forward to a new tomorrow, and some literature works elaborate on the basic fact of ‘Never losing hope.’ Emily Dickinson, a well-acclaimed poet, highlights an accurate portrayal of the abstract concept of hope in her poem, entitled “‘Hope’ Is The Thing With Feathers,” through the usage of having a balladic nature, inimitable formatting, a powerful metaphor, vivid imagery, and stylistic alliteration. Although Dickinson’s way of expressing the message differs much from Tutu’s, readers can note multiple similarities. Both works portray differing definitions of what hope means