Have you ever experienced being alone for a long time? I am not talking about being separated from your parents in a grocery store, I am talking about being alone in the wilderness. The book I just read, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, has a main character who is the only soul who survived a plane crash and now he is stuck alone in the Canadian wilderness. There were two times that Brian had deep feelings that really stood out to me. I am now going to tell you about one of the time Brian had really deep feelings.
Why do we hurt the ones we love? Why is it that the ones we love the most are the one we seems to hurt the most? In Scarlet Ibis and in Separate Peace both protagonist have some doing in the death of the crippled boy and Finny, Gene’s best friend. Finny is happy character who goes around spreading cheer and joy. In Separate Peace Gene, Finny’s best friend, who grows more and more envious each day jounces a limb that causes Finny to fall and shatters his leg, ruining his chances of ever playing sports again.
Memory carries multiple characteristics in The Assault. It is described throughout the story in a very unfavourable way by Anton. The past is never looked upon and there can only be hope that the future will hold a better life. Anton has good reason to supress the past because his early child hood was abysmal. He actively supresses memories throughout the novel and sees ignorance of past events as a safer approach to life.
Throughout the novel a major theme was an individual recovering from a tragic situation. There are several episodes in the novel where
Isolation in Lisa Moore’s Caught Isolation is the separation of a person from themselves, the society or the world around them. Human beings tend to favor isolation during harsh or painful situations that they would like to escape or forget. The recurring theme of isolation is seen in the novel Caught by Lisa Moore.
However, once they both placed within a Nazi death camp, the two become inseparable. Nevertheless, throughout the novel, the bond formed as father and son that begins as a necessity for comfort slowly becomes a burden as
Emotions, the cause of many different outcomes, and lingering thoughts. Those thoughts of ours can be as bad as an earworm, considering how it repeats over and over, until people begin to doubt themselves, but it’s worse when the thought is negative. It slowly becomes so irrational, and everything just becomes assumed. The author Sue Monk Kidd exemplifies this in her novel, “the Secret Life of Bees,” when the main character lies of her past and her feelings. Lies can affect ones feelings about him or herself, but they can’t define him or her.
After great struggles, however, life is renewed. These three characters, separated by generations, experience different challenges, yet they share the common bond of loss and rebirth while remaining fundamentally hopeful and optimistic. The boy in Sounder suffers profound loss when his father is imprisoned and his dog is injured. The boy has cried many tears, yet he stays hopeful that his dog will be all right and that his father will come home again. The boy’s mother comments on her son’s youthful approach to life saying, “Child, child, you must not go into the woods again.
Being alone is hard. Being alone during one of the most tragic times in history is unimaginable. Everybody needed someone to help each other get by. In the novels Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli and North of Danger by Dale Fife, the theme “You can’t always prepare yourself for what lies ahead” is shown by identity, betrayal, and survival. The authors express the theme by making the narrators young, naive kids who are on their own in cold, European countries during WWII.
After a series of events in “The Dew Breaker”, Anne understands that the life of a loved one or you could be over at any minute, and this fear drives her to not take things for granite. As Anne reflects on her life, she thinks about a fear of hers, “this fright that the most powerful relationships of her life were always on the verge of being severed or lost, that the people closest to her always disappearing” (242). Anne, having lost her stepbrother and younger brother, has a fear that one day her husband or daughter will be taken away from her also. She metaphorically relates to this through a phone call with her daughter. “But her daughter was already gone, lost, accidentally or purposely, in the hum of the dial tone” (242).
How far does someone need to go before they realize they will no longer be the same person? In “A White Heron”, Sarah Orne Jewett explores this idea with her main character, Sylvia, who must decide whether she wants to win the love of a man or keep the trust of the wilderness she explores throughout her daily activities. Sylvia is but a child, naïve and innocent to the true intentions of the hunter who comes to stay with her and her grandmother, but there is still the heart of a woman inside of her that yearns for the approval of this man. However, Jewett teaches the audience that although Sylvia never holds the gun, she will be just as responsible for the murder of the heron as the hunter will be. Sylvia must decide about what she truly finds most important, and what she believes is right.
The first character I am analyzing is Cole Harper. Cole is Indigenous, and in grade 12, his parents died in two separate accidents when he was younger. Ever since then, he has lived with his Aunt Joan and Grandma after moving away from Wounded Sky 10 years ago. Cole is a person who gets nervous quite a bit. He goes to therapy and has anxiety pills.
Despite encountering different obstacles, this parallel of physical space between the two novels showcases the parallel between the emotional overtones the characters experience living in an isolated community.
In the story, The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken, the theme is you can always grow out of the person you can always grow out of the person you used to be and become stronger. This is shown in many ways throughout the story with the main character Ruby. In the story, when Ruby was in camp for her powers, she erased the memory of her best friend at the times, Sam. When Ruby touches anyone she can either see into their mind or she erases it entirely.
“The Tide of Loneliness” One of the most disconcerting aspects of human nature is the concept of loneliness. The feeling of being utterly alone is confronted by everyone at some point, and is not easily conquered. Throughout life, everyone encounters this isolation, coupled by the obstacle of finding a place to belong to. In Barbara Kingsolver’s novel Animal Dreams, she addresses the potent longing that drives one to seek out one’s own niche in one’s life, while celebrating the shifting ties between family and friends that moves one to keep back the tide of loneliness. The novel showcases the starkly human desire to find a place of belonging, through Cosima’s hesitant search for her identity and her unwavering bond with a sister she cannot help but idolize.
