Tom eventually leaves his house and travels the world getting the adventure he wants but he has to live with the regret of letting his family down for the rest of his life. At the end of the novel The Great Gatsby by f. Scott Fitzgerald Jay Gatsby is in his swimming pool and he gets shot. Gatsby never achieved his American Dream because he spent most of his life living in the past instead of moving on. At the end of The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams Tom Wingfield gets what he wanted by traveling the world. Tom Wingfield always wanted adventure instead of his boring life but he had a lot of responsibility at his house.
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer is a compelling story of Chris McCandless going out into the wild to find truth in himself and all around, as he does not find peace and love in his own family. Chris had long dreamed of leaving onto a journey for himself, so he would no longer be pressured by all that had been around him for all of his childhood, “Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.”. Here Chris speaks of all to be found in the world, as when we stay and live in one place, time goes without any adventure and excitement, trapped in the society Chris wanted so much to be out of. He was simply searching for what was not available in society.
Huck learns what is really right and wrong. He does not simply follow society and their beliefs, but believes in what he thinks is right all along: freeing Jim and doing everything in his power to save him from a miserable life away from his family, who are the people he cares the most for. In the end, Huck and Jim cared for each other and created their own small
He is awarded the horse that carried him during the war and his posting as a gift. As a result of his brave trait, he does not leave the island, and he decides to live alone with his horse. His self-assured nature gives him the courage to live in the island though it looked deserted. After arriving at the new post, he finds the frontier in disrepair and abandoned. He is opportunistic of giving “hope” to the island and makes a “life” out of the island.
Thoreau’s claim and assumptions are found in the freedom he finds being bound to no one and to no institutions, just like nature. Thoreau takes spiritual pleasure in being alone, which makes him feel that he could be anywhere. “I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself” (Thoreau 380). Nature supports Thoreau's isolation from others because it prevents him from ever really being alone. The company of animals, plants, and the elements is an inexhaustible source of spiritual nourishment for him.
His life experiences taught him to strive for survival day and night. Despite all his struggles, Will never learned to resent or judge anyone. He grew up unconsciously as he tried to accept his father and accept him as explained on pg. 141
Freedom is knowing where you come from, knowing the day to celebrate your existence in the world, permission to tell the truth, being granted the right to learn and explore freely, to be your own master and make your own income for the betterment of yourself and family, living a life of self-fulfillment without anyone to report to. Freedom is an outlet from emotional, spiritual, and physical constraints. Fredrick Douglas opens his life narrative with the fact that he has “no accurate knowledge of (his) age” (Douglas, 1) as well as no concept of who or where his father is. The opening chapter continues unraveling similar sad truths while Douglas compares the white and black children of his time and the visible unfairness that the white children know their birthdays as well as their parents. Douglas is left in a constant state of uncertainty in regards to the existence of his father as he wonders whether his Master himself shares his DNA.
“Jim said it made him all over trembly and feverish to be so close to freedom”(97). Jim’s excitement in knowing that he’s almost a free man demonstrates his unrelenting desire to be free. These mutual feelings of wanting to escape an old life between Huck and Jim do not crossover to Tom, however. Tom, being raised in relative comfort, is used to living with strict adherence to a list of “rules”. Even though Tom makes his own rules and uses the river as a “base of operations” of sorts, its his adherence to the ideas of having rules that contrasts Huck’s defiant attitude towards authority and constrictions.
He based his life on philosophies and wanted to live a life free of conformity. He believed in free will and expression. Christopher yearned for truth and justice, and his family just did not possess these values. What Christopher really wanted was the true existence of happiness without society's influence, or money. In Into The Wild, Krakauer shares a quote from Henry David Thoreau's Walden in which Christopher favored.
Macey Stockwell Anthem Essay Do you think that we should be free of our fellow man? I will be writing about how and why Equality 7-2521 realizes that “To be free, a must be free of his brothers” (Rand pg. 103). I chose this topic because I think that it is a very true statement; I feel that everyone should live by this statement. If everyone did, people wouldn’t feel that they have to try so hard to fit in with society.