Aengus Thesis

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Aengus was so determined to accomplish his mission, that he devoted the rest of his life to finding his true love. Cap was such a devoted friend, that he cremated his friend because it was his dying wish, and Farah Ahmedi was determined to cross the border so she and mother could survive. However, all three of these people were two things; devoted and determined.

Determined to find his true love, Aengus set out on a mission to locate her. He is so remarkably intent to find her, that he dedicated his life to find her. At the end of the passage ¨The Song of Wandering Aengus” by William Butler Yeats, Aengus is still tenaciously looking for his beloved. “Though I am old with wandering” (Yeats 17). Although he hasn 't found her yet, he knows that he will, and doesn 't seem to mind not having found her yet. “I will find out where she …show more content…

They are both a part of the Klondike gold rush. Sam McGee loathes the cold. Furthermore, knowing that he is going to freeze to death soon, he makes his friend Cap guarantee that when he dies, he will cremate him. Sam wants to get cremated because he doesn’t like the idea of being frozen “it’s my awful dread of the icy grave that pains” (Service 23). Cap is such a devoted friend, that he undertakes hardships to follow through with his friend’s dying wish. “The trail was bad, and I felt half mad, but I swore I would not give in” (Service 39). Once he made it to a place he could cremate him, Cap was grossed out about his friend’s dead body being burned. He waited outside until he thought he would check on Sam. When he got there, he saw Sam in the middle of the fire; alive and happy. “And there sat Sam, looking cool and calm, in the heart of the furnace roar” (Service 57). Even though Cap did not like what he had to do “I didn’t like to hear him sizzle so” (Service 49), he still did it because he is a loyal and devoted