Jeremy Fink

Life through Jeremy Fink Have you ever wondered why you are here and what your purpose is? Everyone might think that there is just one answer to this seemingly simple question. Everyone has their own meaning of life, but they are all different in some way. In the book Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life, by Wendy Mass, we meet Jeremy Fink as he goes on an exciting journey during the search for the meaning of life. In this search, Jeremy meets several different people and learns their opinion of the meaning of life. Although there are a lot of different theories, the one that arises as the most important is Daniel Fink’s. Mr. Fink’s meaning of life is the most important because if you don’t pay attention to the little or big moments throughout

Jeremy became looser and decided to choose when to try to control every situation and just go with the flow of life. Jeremy’s dad also contributed to that behavior by saying, “Life gives meaning to life” (Mass 272). In this quote, Mr. Fink is saying that you are responsible for deciding what your life means and if you spend the entirety of the small amount of time you have searching for answers, then that is all you will be known for and all that your string shows. You could be spending life with family and friends and putting together your life piece by piece. Before the encounter with the fortune-teller, Jeremy’s dad thought that it was death that gave meaning to life, but later he then realized that it is not what you inherit or the objects you have when you pass on but it is the moments you have shared and kept. Mr. Fink wondered about how many times he could eat chocolate cake or listen to jazz when really he should be eating the chocolate cake and listening to jazz. Jeremy’s dad could have done these things alone, but why do it alone when you could share it with

Sometimes you can take back the small decisions, but the most important choices you cannot take back and that can be a good thing. Just like Mrs. Billingsly said, “Some choices are forever” (Mass 130). This is an important quote because Mrs. Billingsly knows that when she sold the book that determined the rest of her life. If she had not sold the book she never would have met her husband and she would still be friends with Bitsy. Life is just a waterfall of decisions and one after the other, choices keep coming at you. The decision you make affects the next decision that comes towards you, and what you decide there can change the small things in life that in return will change the big moments in