Comparing The Road Not Taken And George Jones Choices

Our choices influence how we live and how people see us, whatever decision we make impacts not only us, but our family as well. To start off, in the movie Forrest Gump directed by Robert Zemeckis, Forrest the main character is in love with his best friend, but when he goes to marry her, she puts him down. When Forrest asks Jenny to marry him and that he would make a good husband and she responds with “you would, Forrest” and then continues to say you don’t want to marry me. – Here Forrest is hurt that the love of his life does not want to be with him, but she is only hurting him because she is afraid of commitment and afraid to let him down. She loved him, but knows she cannot commit to something she

In “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, we are given a piece of art that simply will leave you clueless unless, you understand the pain and frustration the man is going through; when choosing what route he feels will give him the most joy. In the poem a man is walking through the woods and he comes upon a fork. He who wants to take both roads chooses the route that he feels is traveled less on. Little does he know that both road have been equally traveled on. He who travels on the route that has fresher leaves lies to himself, by convincing himself that he will come back and take the other route. Though it was a very stressful and a hard decision for the man to make, many people are put into very similar situations like in John Updike’s A and P and as well as in James Joyce’s Eveline. Both Sammy and Eveline find it troubling to make a decision that will change their life completely.

The dark and cynical writing that’s presented in both stories gives consequences of what is morally right even though it is clearly shows the cost of being selfish and wrong but it still have a price even if it means cheating someone out of their future.

Every day of our lives, we make choices. Some of these choices are very difficult, while others might be so easy that they are subconscious. Each decision we make comes with a downfall. That is the next best option we could have chosen or what we call the opportunity cost of making the decision that we did!

Sometimes it is tempting to look back on a lifetime of choices and decisions and to think

Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist and Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” pursue the theme of personal destiny. In The Alchemist the main character Santiago is pursuing his personal destiny by going to find treasure at the Pyramids of Egypt, but Santiago is having a hard time leaving his life he already knows behind. In Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” Frost conveys that he was sorry that he “could not travel both / And be one traveler have gone on both roads, long I stood” (Frost 2-3). Frost had to make a decision in which road he was going to take in order to pursue his personal destiny. In The Alchemist Santiago had to choose between two roads like Frost, one road was grassy and the other was wear. Santiago’s two roads were his life of being

Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken" tells of someone faced with one of life's major decisions whereas only one direction can be chosen. Whichever road is taken will be final and will determine the direction that their life takes.

Contrary to popular belief, the passionate optimism of Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience directly contradicts the cynical view found in Robert Frost’s “Road Not Taken”. On the surface, Thoreau and Frost have similar viewpoints, and their works are complementary. However, although “The Road Not Taken” is often believed to be a celebration of thoughtful individualism, Frost actually intended it as a mockery of indecision and boastful retrospection. Thoreau and Frost assert contradictory outlooks, which they personally practice, leading to works of literature which explore the opposite worldviews of the two authors. “The Road Not Taken” seems on the surface to applaud casual individuality, but the infamous last two lines have been quoted in congratulatory cards and at graduation speeches for almost one hundred years: “I took the road less traveled, / and that has made all the difference” Four stanzas long, the poem

Robin Williams declares that you must accept life and look at in a different perspective in the movie Dead Poets Society. “I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.” It is demonstrated through “The Road Not Taken” and “O Captain, My Captain” that both poems have a comparing and emotional effect on the readers. The poems “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and “O Captain, My Captain” by Walt Whitman both have very similar and common characteristics creating comparing effects. Common characteristics are proved through irony, imagery and perspective.

A choice that was made and negatively impacted the person may lead them to reflect on their actions

As previously mentioned, indecisiveness or failure to make a decision can create a host of negative effects.

One is about the growth of love and the other is about the pain love can give

Example of shame options is when in video games we have the options of choosing different weapons, challenges or paths. In the video game there will be one choice that is clearly better, or clearly worse than the others. The worst one is a sham option, its not going to have a good outcome, so no one is going to choose it. Almost the same thing happens in real life. Some careers take years to complete them. Some school give us the option of finish them in a shorter way, but at the end the outcome is not as good as the one we obtain when completing the career as it should be. Anyway, some people select the not so obvious option just because they are tempted. They choose the second option because it takes less time, but at the end, as I said before,

choices and knowing that making the wrong choices can’t be taken back once the choices

Sometimes individuals are challenged with making life changing decisions. The movie interstellar has many instances where