People need connections with others, but these connections are not always what brings them to their absolute highest level of happiness. Chris proceeded to record his personal thoughts in his journal, further proving to the reader the point that personal connections are not essential to happiness. “I now walk out and live amongst the wild. Take care, it was great knowing you.” (69), Chris wrote on a card sent to two generous people, Jan and Bob Burres. How briefly this sentence was written and how easily the “good-bye” was said to the couple that took him in and gave him supplies, Chris had displayed that his desire to be on his own was greater than his desire for theirs or anyone’s, friendship.
His choice to continue writing instead of carrying out the tradition of farming separates him from his family. In “Digging”, Heaney describes how he feels alienated from his father and grandfather. He feels as if he is not as skilled or worthy as them, but he uses writing: “the squat pen”, to stay connected to the memories with his family. In ‘Digging’, the poet uses onomatopoeia and alliteration effectively to depict what is happening outside his bedroom window, in order to recreate scenes from his past. “Clean rasping sound”, means a clean scrape through the soil, and the word “rasping” is onomatopoeic.
The main protagonist, Harry is a young adolescent who lives in the country side. Harry is generally unhappy with where he lives even though he has loved ones, friends with him day by day. Harry is constantly thinking about ways he could possibly leave town, hence the poem 'Directions out', stating that he has memorised the most efficient way to "escape" to freedom, to find out what is beyond their little town. "well, you can turn left or right,/ it doesn't matter,/ because, by then/ you're miles/ and another world away/ from here. '", Harry knows the way "out" but he decides against it when Claire Honey appears in his class.
Society rejects these odd new things. However the man doesn’t give in and change his ideas to fit what society wants and he seems content doing it. This confuses the masses and encourages them to hate him more. Aristotle calls him “the great-souled man” Ayn Rand calls him Howard Roark but they are one and the same. Howard Roark is the novel's personification of the perfect man.
Poems in “Immigrants Chronicle” show that the poet struggles to adapt to changes, in some ways his father also struggles to adapt to changes. Like in “Felix Skrzynecki” when the poet mentions “tried to keep in pace with the Joneses”. It highlights the depth of struggle it had taken for Felix to come to a stage where he no longer feels the need to follow anyone in order to belong. Because he has now found a place to belong his garden. The garden becomes metaphorical as the poem doesn’t just reveal that the father belongs to just the garden but also reveals that the father has found peace in himself, has found peace as he now feels he has found a place in the world around him even though he wasn’t originally from
He could have any dish he wanted where he lived, but he was not allowed to eat anything he liked. The old man had everything one can acquire with wealth, but none of these things could make him happy. Leah and the old man found happiness emotionally, not materialistically. The window itself did not make Leah happy, but what the window represented did. The window represented her youth, which made her remember her happiness as a child.
He was self built from the ground up. Whitman was self educated, independent, intelligent, and unique in many ways. Although most of his life he was alone, he left a mark on American by his writs of poetry which were influenced by Emerson himself. He struggled through life, desperately looking for an alternative to becoming a farm boy. This in turn, led to a failure in teaching, personal failure of his newspaper, and going through a fictional writing phase.
From the very beginning, Napoleon never fit in, he was always alone. As the story progressed, he grew by starting to make friends and deciding to start doing things for those friends. After this point, he begins to fit in more and is never alone. Someone could say that at the beginning, he was somewhat selfish and did not care much about others, but towards the end, he became self less and was doing things for others, which led him to have good friends. In any story there is foreshadowing, which keeps the reader engaged in the story.
He states that life is “come easy go easy”, meaning that life is not guaranteed and can be taken at any time. He also says that they live like humans used to and that they are now to uptight and worry about what everyone thinks, more of a social norm. The idea of living so short is insensible to Archy. He doesn’t understand the moth’s reasoning until after the moth “immolated himself.” All of Archy’s lines are very logical and thought out which very much explains his conservative personality especially this stanza: i do not agree with him myself i would rather have half the happiness and twice the longevity The idea of living so short is insensible to Archy. He doesn’t understand the moth’s reasoning until after the moth “immolates himself.” He then sees a small understanding of the moth’s life.
He is successful because he is the only one who can confront reality and see through the rose colored glasses. Everyone else had a false sense of reality and could not see or admit the truth. Biff, on the other hand, is comfortable with the fact that he is just an average man, something Willy, was never able to accept. Another reason Biff is successful is because he chases his dreams and what he enjoys doing in life. Biff knew that the life of a salesman was not his own dream but his father’s dream for him.