John Thornton's Journey In The Life Of Susan B. Thornton

John Thornton persevered through everything nature threw at him to find the fabled lost mine he believed would make him rich. Aengus wandered, and is still wandering, trying to find the mystical girl that ran off after saying his name. Susan B. Anthony believed women should have the right to vote, so she devoted her life to achieve that goal. However, all three wanted to get a better life, were chasing lost love, or saw something they deemed wrong in the world, and would not let anything stop them from accomplishing their goals.

John Thornton overcame all of the obstacles he faced while journeying to the fabled lost cabin that would supposedly make him a rich man. John Thornton had dreamed about going to this mine before, but he never expected

When talking about this encounter, he said, “And someone called me by my name: It had become a glimmering girl,” (Yeats 12, 13). Then he stated, “Who called me by my name and ran And faded through the brightening air,” (Yeats 15, 16). He is now talking about how the girl ran away and left him. Aengus then devoted his life to find this girl that he saw only briefly, but quickly fell deeply in love with. He is so determined that he searched for her for many years. Aengus indicates this by stating, “I am old with wandering,” (Yeats, 17). He also says, “And pluck till time and times are done, The silver apples of the moon, The golden apples of the sun,” (Yeats 22, 23, 24). When declaring this, Aengus is saying that he will search for her through all the nights and days until he dies, and “times are done” for him. Aengus never gave up on his goal to find the girl he fell in love with years ago, and showed that if you believe in something, you should never stop looking for

Anthony did not go on a mission for herself to prosper. She went on a mission for all the women citizens of the United States. “Women were forbidden by law to vote in New York (or any other) State. Anthony had challenged the law when she cast her ballot in 1872,” (Weisberg, 14). Susan B. Anthony knew that she could go to jail for casting her ballot, but she thought that she should legally be able to vote and wanted to make a statement of that, even under threat of arrest. “Along with the other suffragists, both male and female, Anthony believed that the U.S. Constitution gave women the right to vote,” (Weisberg, 14). Susan B. Anthony did not like that women were discriminated against, and their rights were taken away from them, simply due to their gender. Anthony did not let anything, or anyone, get in the way of her achieving her goal; ranging from people who did not believe in women getting the right to vote all the way to her own death. In her last speech, she stated, “I am here for a little time only and then my place will be filled...the fight must not cease; you must see that it does not stop”...“Failure,” she said, “is impossible,” (Weisberg 105). This last speech of Susan B. Anthony’s told people that she was so determined to accomplish her goal, that she made sure that even when she died, people would still follow through with her life’s mission. This determination and perseverance helped shape U.S. history because “exactly