Experiences Changes Lives Life is like a rollercoaster, life goes up to extreme heights, introduces fear and it can come down crashing in a matter of seconds. Life consists of many experiences and lessons. Life’s outcomes occur due to lessons learned by different experiences. In Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage Rutherford Calhoun the main character goes through a life changing experience when he runs away and steps onto the Republic, a ship where he believes will be the solution to his problems but it later turns out to be a nightmare and an absolute life changer. Life is lived in different ways and it is due to the different experiences and the different lessons learned. Rutherford changes were due to a horrifying life experience.
There’s many events in a lifetime that can completely change a
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Once on the Republic, Rutherford finds out many things that he did not expect to occur. Rutherford learns many things that shakes him and often awakes him at night. As the days on the Republic go by, Rutherford begins to regret and wish he would have never stepped onto the ship. Rutherford explains how he feels about his presence on the ship. Rutherford says “I’d felt such dizzying entrapment” (Johnson 45). Rutherford also explains that he woke up screaming some nights and he says “I screamed myself awake some nights, choking on the rank male sweat that hung around my hammock like wet clothing” (Johnson 45). Rutherford begins to regret being on the ship, its confirmed when he says that he misses what he had, Rutherford says, “I wished in vain for dry breeches, floorboards that didn’t move, a bowl of warm milk at bedtime, and sometimes-aye-for Isadora” (Johnson 45). Rutherford clearly begins to regret and hate being on the ship. Being aware of so much and living life on a corrupt ship, he becomes regretful on the choice he