pt
Many people enjoy calmness. They don’t relish the thought of going on an adventure, they would rather do what is expected of them. Although, Miles “Pudge” Halter was boring, he had his mind set on leaving the expectations and starting his own journey. Pudge’s obsession with famous last words drove him to seek the last words of Francois Rabelais “I go to see the Great Perhaps” Which meant to leave your comfort zone. These last words began Pudge journey to the unbalanced yet adventurous environment that is Culver Creek boarding school. This school is the epitome of the “Great Perhaps”, and if his life could not be more turned upside down, he meets Alaska Young. Alaska is a bad influence and completely different than Pudge, yet she takes
…show more content…
For example, Alaska explains to Pudge how you can get stuck in the labyrinth. “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present” (John Green, 54). In this passage Alaska expounds how you can get caught in the labyrinth. Alaska elucidates that the labyrinth is life and you can get caught in the suffering of life but work to move forward to change your past. Alaska’s views change what Pudge thinks about the suffering of life and how, just like labyrinths, suffering is a maze which is hard to navigate. Another example that states how Alaska influenced Pudge’s view that suffering throughout life is a labyrinth is when she describes to Pudge what the labyrinth is to her. “It’s not life or death, the …show more content…
Alaska shows Pudge her way to escape the labyrinth which causes him to realize his own way of escaping the labyrinth. For instance, Pudge realized how Alaska chose to leave her labyrinth of suffering. “The whole passage was underlined in bleeding, water-soaked black ink. But there was another ink, this one a crisp blue, post-flood, and the arrow lead from ‘How will I ever get out of this labyrinth?’ to a margin note written in her loop-heavy cursive: Straight and Fast”(John Green, 156). In this passage Pudge realized that Alaska had chosen her own way out of suffering. “Straight and Fast”, Alaska had so much suffering she took her only way out, which was death. She decided that “Straight and Fast” was the way out of her own suffering. Everyone has their own unique way, and sometimes their ways change. In this piece of evidence Pudge had thought he figured out how to get through this own suffering, Although after meeting Alaska his course changed. “Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist, to build a small, self-sufficient world in a back corner of the endless maze and to pretend that I was not lost, but home. But that only lead to a lonely life accompanied only by the last words of the already-dead, so I came here looking for a Great Perhaps”(John Green, 219). Pudge may have found a easy way to stay in the labyrinth of
By shaking the mist off similar to the dog, anybody has the chance to alter their fate. The journey of a thousand miles always begins with a single step. The only question is if we are willing to take the steps necessary to get to that point, even if we cannot foresee nor guess that the future holds. The past has passed, the future and fate is unknown, and the present is called present for a
For me, Rick Riordan never disappoints the readers. The Burning Maze is a perfect third book for Trials of Apollo’s pentalogy. The Burning Maze carries a lot of knowledge. If you have a difficulty to understand a myth, you should start to read this book. Like all of the Rick Riordan’s works, the language of this book is easy to understand for general.
Instead she left him with a kiss, and lost her own life to death. It tears him up that he will never know her last words, if she had left him on purpose, and if she truly loved him as he loved her. Pudge ends off with this quote because he comes to a realization that life goes on, and in order to find yourself and be happy, you have to carry on with “seeking for a Great Perhaps”. Although Alaska’s way out of the Labyrinth was straight and fast, Pudge’s way is to bear the labyrinth and take whatever comes his way. He chooses the Labyrinth and hopes for the best, and even though he will forget Alaska, she made him
Another example of free will in action is the conversation between MacDonald and the Narrator. The Narrator questions MacDonald and asks him if there is really a way out of Heaven. MacDonald replies by mentioning that the people who live in Hell occasionally have the option to visit the river or visit Earth. He states that the people who get to leave hell behind will be in Purgatory, also known as the Valley of the Shadow of Life. “But I don’t understand.
We are not our true selves. In fact, most of us don’t even realize this until much later in life when disaster strikes and we must face the harsh reality. We must face the harsh reality that for most of our life, we do not know who we are and we are not who we are meant to be. In reality, we are not the most-developed versions of our selves during times of joy and happiness. We are not our most-developed selves when everything seems to be falling into place and when all of our hard work is finally paying off.
An example of this can be how Tim, in the shows finale, "Always" (FNL, Season 5, Ep.13), struggles with moving on and doing something he does not want to do, his move to work on a rig in Alaska. His passion is Texas and football and he knows he cannot life without either. Tim has created a world where only one thing matters and is not aiming for anything else, this makes him happy. Although Tim Riggins is not the absurd hero Camus describes, his “leap of faith” of purchasing land in Texas where he intends to stay forever and not run from himself or his past, but to go forth into his life. This is something that Peter Berg, the creator of Friday Night Lights creates when he uses dialogue and aesthetics to assist the viewers in understanding what the “consequence of actions” can be if we put ourselves “in another's shoes" and therefore we become more aware of those around us and even "our own goodness.
She describes her family as “abusive and very poor.” For her, the school became a break from her tumultuous home life, a place where she saw adults who lived their
The texts says from “into the Maze of Doom” My father’s hatred of Athens was something I never questioned. But now I am old enough to see that the answer to killing cannot be more killing”(pg15) Also the text states, “Take this thread. Tie one end to the entrance. Unwind it as you walk, so you will be able to find your way back.
He wound up in the cave being stalked by a bob-cat. As he walks deeper he was attacked by the bob-cat and fell into the hole that Eli almost fell into as a small child. When at the bottom he opened his eyes to the bob-cat staring at him. To his right a limestone pillar that resublimed a angle and to his left a pile of bones. It was at this moment he knew that there were two paths he could go.
As we still have yet to fathom what my brother and I will become, I learn to understand the extraordinary sacrifices you and Dad have made to make sure that both me and my brother will succeed in a new world. Over the summer as I read the Glass Castle ,I realized how important determination truly was. Although you have faced hardships such as the death of both your parents, Jeanette, the author of the memoir, had a father who disappeared and a mother who lacked decency to feed her kids. Even though your parents were efficacious unlike Jeanette’s, you two were both determined to take control of your future. With a strong sense of determination to get out of dilapidated West Virginia like you had to from Greece, Jeanette states that, “I was
Breathing deeply, I retched at the sickening smell of rotten flesh and pus. Looking around, I caught a brief glimpse of the creature that was stalking me. Noticing my stare upon it, the creature melted into the shadows as if it was never there. This wretched labyrinth was starting to get to me.
Daedalus had been commissioned by King Minos to build an impossible maze to imprison the mighty Minotaur. However, Daedalus and Icarus were sentenced to the impossible-to-crack maze, after Daedalus had fallen out of favor with the King. Icarus knew the maze like the back of his hand - he had helped his father build it, afterall. The labyrinth was a series of intricate dark corridors, endlessly meandering, which kept the Minotaur at its center. The beast still lay there, a pile of dust.
One day at school, Auggie overhears Jack and Julian saying mean things about Auggie. Auggie went home saying he was “sick” and decides that he’s done with school. Then Auggie’s sister talks him into going back to school. Auggie forgives Jack when Jack apologizes. On the other hand, Auggie’s school experience has some negative things.
For instance, he writes “And would it have been worth it, after all, / After the cups, the marmalade, the tea, / Among the porcelain, among some talk of you and me, / Would it have been worth while, / To have bitten off the matter with a smile, / To have squeezed the universe into a ball / To roll it toward some overwhelming question” (“Prufrock” 87-93). This vivid imagery shows how he compares taking on some overwhelming question to squeezing the universe into a ball; this is virtually impossible, so Prufrock is very intimidated by confronting people in society, specifically women. He believes that it wasn’t worth it and convinces himself it was a good idea that he didn’t risk anything for this woman. The fragmentation in
Eventually, Rabbit understands that he is traveling nowhere and turns around to find his way back to his hometown. This whole event, of running away from family, is highly criticized