Chris writes, “The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun” (qtd. in Krakauer 36). He thrives off of the uncertainty in his new lifestyle. I relate to Chris, with this quote in particular. I have moved around quite a bit in my lifetime, with my father being in the military. I have lived in eight different places in sixteen years.
The Generation stuck in Limbo Imagine being suddenly transported to a place with a different culture, language, and without your friends or peers with you. How does one navigate through an entirely foreign land and situation where everything becomes a new beginning? What happens to the history and identity one has grown up with? Can the two identities ever coexist?
People leading the life of a civilian believe the war does not have as many negative implications as it does. Baumer arrives home and is immediately in distress: “The names of the stations begin to take on meaning and my heart trembles... [they] mark the boundaries of my youth” (154). He understands the war makes him emotionless, that his past is now buried through the miles of countryside he travels past, and through the graveyards that have exploded around him. His old life holds little significance.
Once the soldiers were made aware of the realities of war they felt disconnected from their old life and the life they would have had. Paul describes this loss of feeling by saying “We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.” (Remarque 87).
A Separate Peace shows the reader that change can seem agonizing at first, but it might turn out to be for the better, and the same could be said about
Quotes Page Respond, Analyze, Evaluate “ You know how you can tell when you’re getting close to one? The smell you can smell a town from miles away. It smells like smoke and raw sewage and death.” (39) 39 ® While you read this quote you can imagine the polluted city and the dead bodies around the city.(A) Cassie prefers the countryside than the urban side, and explains why dislikes one over the other.(E)
As soon as I left Jamaica, every aspect of my life that I had grown to loathe had been altered in some way. I gained better friends, my academics escaped their dark depths and people saw my character. In Jamaica, I heard the word ‘potential’ so often that I even began showing people that they were wrong and that I had no potential. As soon as I moved, I saw the potential everyone was talking about because I discovered that I am smart and capable but I simply needed a different environment. Often I feel as if these moments of grief never happened at all.
“One of the unsettling things about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn't sure when or where it was going to end. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. I felt that I was starting over and over again”(Beah 69). As a victim of the war and all the violence it has brought with it,Beah suffers
In Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going? Where Have You Been?," the main character, Connie, is very concerned about her looks and making sure she always looks like what she would consider "pretty." As a young, fifteen year old girl, looking good and getting the attention of boys was her main priority. Although she is still technically a child, Connie wanted to look older and more mature, assumably to mimic the women she could see in advertisements and magazines. When kids reach their teenage years, they often long for the freedom of adulthood and want to be treated with the same respect adults get.
One of the most difficult things I have ever experienced is moving to Idaho before my junior year of high school from Utah. Despite this being a common occurrence for people it was hard for me because it uprooted me from the community I had lived in for the past seven years, and the people I loved. It caused me to leave friends that I grew up with and that I couldn’t imagine leaving. And forced me to meet new friends and discover a new place. As I have had time to reflect on my experiences it causes me to realize that it doesn’t matter where you are, or the people you know, but how you react in the situation.
The world is made up of opposites and differences. In the novel paper towns by john green, the use of opposites helped me to understand the themes: appearance can be deceiving, the importance of identity and the bad affects of obsession this is shown through a variety of quotes in the text. A quote from the book that shows appearance can be deceiving is when Q is in Margo’s room looking for clues that link to where she is, he then finds her music collection and says “But I was distracted by Margo’s music collection. She liked everything I could have never imagined her listening to all these records.”
Everyone must have been through a significant change in one point of their life. The significant change that I been through was in my early age. During those few years attending to Atlantic Middle School, I survived from cultural differences and language barriers. When I was fourteen years old I traveled by myself from my home in Fuzhou (a city in southern China) to Boston, Massachusetts to reunite with my family, who had been living in the United States for the past eight years.
Change is inevitable. At some point in everyone’s life, they will experience change which will be a turning point in their life. A common change is moving homes and transitioning into a new society. Living somewhere for your whole life in which you call ‘home’ is comforting and safe. Having to leave that safety blanket and beginning a new life can be intimidating and frightening.
Moving is a burden that has profoundly altered my outlook on things. Going back a few years, I moved to the United States, which meant I’d have to be placed in a new school. This transition was truly and utterly difficult for me, because it happened in the middle of the school year and I was not ready for what was about to be thrown my way. I was scared out of my mind, it felt as if the walls were crumbling down on me and I had no escape route.
Due to war’s impact, people will forgo their own character for survival and because of this they will find themselves lost and without anything to look forward
