| Theme: In An Athlete Dying Young, an early death is being viewed in a positive way. The effect of the poem stems from the speaker, who appears to be "death". Death's point of view indicates an ironic tone, suggesting death is not the fall of a man, just the end of a beating heart. A. E. Houseman proposes the purpose of life is to achieve greatness. Through greatness one must die to be remembered as a legend.
Talzani has a firm belief that “some live, some die, that’s all” and appears to be relatively unaffected by the deaths he is responsible for. Joaquin, much like Talzani, seems to also be fairly candid about the deaths he was liable for, except when it comes to his granddaughter Elena. Mark on the other hand becomes so psychologically disturbed about his part in the death of his best friend and is so overcome with guilt that his legs fail to work. “There is no pattern to who lives or dies in war”. The author uses the character of Dr Talzani as a representation of someone who can be responsible for people’s deaths and remain unaffected by it.
Through Steinbeck’s literary techniques he explains the causes of Lennie’s death through the theme, characterization and foreshadowing. Although Steinbeck was able to leave his readers with many thoughts to think about from the story, one of the themes that clearly show the cause of Lennie’s death is sacrificing. Even though by killing Lennie, George lifts a heavy burden off his chest for he no longer has to take care of Lennie and deal with all the troubles Lennie keep on making for him. However, George has to sacrifice his friendship and love because by shooting Lennie he loses a friend whom had always been keeping him company and shares a dream with him, to have their own farm where they would share and live together. Other than that, it was not easy for George to shoot Lennie but he had to do it because if he didn’t he knew that Curley would and in a more painful way.
Worth Dying For Life is a precious gift given to humankind by God. It leads to friendship, family, love and even more. Although life combines tragedy and splendor it is entirely worth living and no other human has the right to determine whether you live or die. In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, Reverend Hale tells Elizabeth Proctor “ No principle however glorious is worth dying for.” His argument that it is better to give false confession than to die for a principle of belief is incorrect. Throughout history there has been countless number of people who have died for giving the truth other than denying their belief.
Dumbledore helps the students by leading them in the right direction. He is the teacher of many pupils, whom he cares about so much that he dies in order to protect their innocence. He allows a friend to kill him in order to prevent a young boy from having to take a life, because preserving his peace of mind was the right thing to do. A hero is selfless and unconcerned about themselves. Sydney loves a young woman named so much that he dies to prevent her from having to life without the man that she loves, Charles Darnay.
A man only knows about living. If a person takes a bullet and dies for somebody that he really cares about, like his family, he probably thinks that he took the right decision and that it was worth dying for this important person. Many people, especially men who are in the army often says that he would die for his county and that he would be considered honorable. But like I said, he doesn’t know that until it is to late to change his opinion. From time to time I hear the saying ’‘You have to die in order to protect your life.’’ There is no sense in that what so ever.
It is clear and obvious that the two categories overlap each other but the difference tends to be that over – reaching is on a short term time frame and is occasionally intentional, where it can be said that over – training is not intentional and is developed over a long period of time. Player burnout which heads the two categories, over – reaching and over – training, can be described as the physical, mental and emotional exhaustion of an athlete. These three factors working together can result in an athlete feeling an underachievement or a sense of undervaluing the role they play in their respective sport. Many athletes end their careers at an age where it was possible for them to carry on but felt they had no more motivation to pursue success. Surveys and interviews were carried out by H. Gustafsson et al.
Justice and Divine Law in Sophocles' Antigone Humans are consumed by the fear of dying and not knowing what lies after death. Although humans have the ability to conquer most of the obstacles we face, we are unable to avoid death. Our actions are, therefore, driven by our desire to please the gods by means of following their divine laws as a way to overcome death. However, because we live in working societies, there are laws and regulations present that we must also follow. Sometimes the question arises of whether one should follow divine law over human law and vice versa.
To me it means in normal situations when young men die the priest explains how it was God’s will. The irony of this is God wouldn’t won’t to take the lives of innocent youth, so thankfully the dead soldiers are spared this type of “mockery”. I feel Owen is trying to make us aware of the pity and countless loss of young soldier’s lives, “those who die as cattle”. This
Many times, tragic flaws cause the tragic heroes to die or face downfall and Okonkwo’s case was not any different. He never wanted to end up like his father who died a shameful death, but ironically, he kills himself and “will be buried like a dog” (191, ch.25). Things Fall Apart meets certain criteria to be considered a tragedy. Just like many other tragedies, the main character Okonkwo, who had to face an unfortunate ending, was a good person and did not mean harm to anyone. All he wanted to do was to be successful to serve his ancestors and for his children to be successful as well and have good lives.