Analysis Of The Guts To Keep Going

Loss can mean something very different, depending on who you ask to define it and what their history is with it. However difficult the obstacle may be, Tim O’Brien’s words can help alleviate someone’s conscious, because he points out the importance of all those stories lived with that certain person or thing that was lost. Even with my personal losses, I can relate to O’Brien’s views of loss and the importance of all the memories of the lost thing. Loss would not be so impactful if it weren’t for all those sentimental memories and emotions that come with it. It’s necessary to sometimes remember the happy times lived before the loss, to slowly fill up the hole that it created in the heart. It’s true, losing something is rarely anything to be happy about, but if anyone has something that makes saying goodbye hard, they would be considered

My aunt whom just so happened to be one of my role models passed away. I was devastated. Not only was I confused, but I was lost as well. A woman I looked up to was gone forever. I missed a few days of school and starting falling behind on work. It took me awhile to process my aunt's’ death. I finally realized that I have to move on. I knew that she would not approve of me being sad. I started remembering all of the positive memories my aunt left behind. I gained a tremendous amount of knowledge from her. Until this day, I carry what she taught me everywhere I go. I strive harder to make her

At some time in life, a person will experience the death of a relative or lose something that was very important to him or her. After that traumatic event, will that person confront his or her pain, or will that person bury it deep within them? Both ways are possible, however, only one is effective in the long term. According to Tim O'Brien, the most effective way to heal after a traumatic experience is to share stories. In Tim’s book, The things they carried, he used the motifs of loneliness, life, and the mood of nostalgia to illustrate the importance of sharing stories during a healing process.

“Hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.” (225) In the novel Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse, Billie Jo, a young girl living in the Oklahoma Panhandle, finds herself in a tough situation when she sees her mother, the “glue” of her family die, and her beloved farm fail. This situation causes Billie Jo to look for hope to help her get through this tough stage of her life. Similar to Billie Jo, during a person’s life, when he or she is in a hardship or in a tough time, usually, the only thing that gets them through is hope.

She has been one that needed to be dragged along kicking and screaming, even hanging onto for dear life: a truck door, a leg(grandma’s, mine, her dads…), her brother, whatever she could grab ahold of if she wasn’t ready for what was next. As with her birth, gracefully almost unexpectedly, she slide right on through, seamlessly, ready to take life head on, the timing was hers and hers alone. It’s a delicate balance and a dance not of a minuet or rumba but more like a mambo with a delightful lift of a waltz watching her grow-up.

Majorie Lee Browne’s personal life reminds me of a story from a friend, Jessica. Jessica’s mother passed away when she was only six years old, that is really young. She grew up without a mother and was raised by her working father; that must have been hard. Jessica probably must have been confused and sad seeing her friends with mothers, but not her. Stereotypically, people who has lost their mother or father, lives a horrible life in depression and negatively. However, she lived for her mother; she thought of her mother to never give up. Jessica’s mother constantly told her to never give up and keep going to live a comfortable life. Jessica, now, graduated from USC and is now practicing to become an ER nurse. It is unbelievable that she can have so much motivation to keep on going, despite the dramatic event that

In, “Growing Up” by Gary Soto, Maria shows she is ungrateful. She is ungrateful for what she has, and feels that, “She was free” She feels free from her family which shows that she isn’t very grateful towards them. This is shown in the text because, Maria shows ungratefulness and disrespect towards her family. All in all, the moral of this story is, one has to learn how to be grateful and give respect before they can really, and fully grow up. This is shown in the narrative through, symbolism, characterization, and conflict.

“What is grief, if not love persevering?” is a line Paul Bettany delivers in Marvel’s show “WandaVision”. The significance of this line can not only impact you in real life, but also perfectly describes the stories “Looking for Alaska,” by John Green, and “In My Mom’s Shoes,” by Kat Chow. Both stories discuss ways one can deal with grief, albeit in different ways, and eventually end in the characters processing their grief and learning to grow through it. In the story, “In My Mom’s Shoes,” by Kat Chow, she tells the reader how long it took her to go through the 5 stages of grief because she keeps avoiding it. Her grief presents itself in her reluctance to throw away any of her mom’s old stuff, “It might be freeing to not have to cling to it.

Before Ms. Taylor died, she was battling cancer, high blood pressure, and a diabetes which caused her husband’s life to be taken by stress. When I was taking care of her, she had only two children, both girls, and one grandson. I did not get the pleasure to meet her husband because he passed 10 years before had gotten sick. I knew she was depressed about her husband’s death, in which she almost gave up on living, but once I came along, I was able to give her that spark that she needed so desperately to keep living. Her daughters had lives of their own. One was a successful teacher, and the other was an executive manager of a company in North Dakota. The only grandson, who she felt had so many options in life, did not know which academic career path to follow

After we lose someone close to us, everything takes a heavy toll on ourselves. Doing the most basic task exhausts us, "we become so weak that we

Grief is a powerful thing. It can consume someone and spit them back out without a second thought. A person can be absolutely devoured by this unsavory beast, and once you’ve encountered it, no matter how much time has passed, you never truly escape the beast. And said beast can make you become a totally different person entirely. The song “Again” by Crusher-P and the short story “All Summer in a Day” by Ray Bradbury both touch on the power of grief and what it does to the person and the people around them.

Acceptance. Something that anyone who has ever had loss has gone through. It doesn’t matter exactly how you get there but it matters that acceptance comes. The author of The Sky is Everywhere (Jandy Nelson) and the author of Love, Lucas (Chantele Sedgwick) both have the theme that with loss, acceptance will eventually come.

Since my younger years I have been compelled to differentiate between enduring and overcoming. From my parent’s divorce, our financial instability and my multiple social dislocations, I had to learn to adapt to ever-changing environments and circumstances. Before my grandfather died he shared with me one of his favorite quotes and one that I will never forget, which says that, “the key to life is found by

Carrie’s aunt Susan, the driver of the car, tried but failed to mask the concern in her voice. Carrie’s father wasn’t exactly communicative at the best of times, and at the worst of times people said he was antisocial. The last time Susan and John had actually talked was before the move.

Going into the dark and facing rough patches is part of life. It is a phase in life that one conquers, that one HAS to conquer to learn about life as a whole. After this so called dark time has came and left, there is the light that seeps through, allowing one to see the good in life. Allowing one to see the people that were there for them when they were at their low, showing them the support that received, however inevitably pushing them away in the sole time of need. In the essay “The Politics of the Brokenhearted” written by American author Parker Palmer, he heavily addresses the fact that people need to learn again that it is okay to have someone there when you are struggling.