Thinking about life filled with sun and peace to escape isn’t truth, but it's fun to fantasize. As humans want to be away from agony and hardships, often times, the very source of pain is from their own thoughts. We are driven to the edge, barely hanging on to cliff until final straw breaks, something snaps inside. Depiction of this state is expressed in “Ride” by Twenty One Pilots. When a human is driven to the edge, changes occur to him--he start to notice things that he never saw or thought before. For example, we all have someone we would protect, to “take a bullet for”. However, in reality they “don’t see many bullets comin through”. This illustrates that people simply over complicate situations, always thinking that there will always …show more content…
This leads them to fantasize idealistic places such as “in the sun where I find… Pieces of peace in the Sun’s peace of mind”. Because they are “thinking too much”, they wish to go to place where Sun brightens up everything and nothing is hidden, making over complication impossible. With all these elements, humans fall-- and as we fall, their highlights from ride of life flashes before their eyes. Because they have already given up and only thing they can see is their life, they have look back and revisit those memories, “...taking time on my life”, only to find that “there were people back home who tried to talking to you”. With this, they realize they have been “thinking too much” and humans were the ones making their “ride” hard to survive. This makes them reach up and struggle to climb up the path they fell from, finally reaching for help. “Ride” brings up one of many problems that occur in our society, where people make things seem harder than it already is. Searching for distraction, they fantasize for their ideal world, but that does not protect them from reality, causing them to give up, only to realize there were people who were willing to
“Anything, no matter what, to get rid of thinking! It was this everlasting thinking of my own condition that tormented
“Into the woods” by Cheryl Strayed is a not only a story about the journey to the inner on the Pacific Crest Trail, but also the journey to the inner of a human at the moment of facing a challenge. Through internal dialogues that disclose thoughts and detail descriptions using literary figures, the author achieved move our imagination to a crossing and allow us an understanding of her feelings. By making explicit a nuance of feelings Strayed let to the reader knows what is happening in her mind when is determined start a crossing that herself find difficult to believe, “It was absurd and ridiculously difficult and I was profoundly unprepared to do it.” Instead of pretend be a heroin, Strayed shows to the public her vulnerability as a human being with fears and doubts. The challenge of hiking the PCT (2,650 miles long between national parks and mountains, deserts, forest, rivers and highways)
Meaning don't take issues at face value look deeper. We see conflict everywhere in the story, but it's not as simple as just black or white. Characters like sal trying to do the right thing, but unfortunately they are unable to continue that trend. The complexity that made these matters so
In the vagaries of life, everyone encounters various constraints and adversities. It is vital for individuals to consider and balance the influences of these factors toward their life. Although utilizing suggestions and comprehending the experiences may help individuals to have improvement or enhancement, it is critical for them to be conscious about their own perspective. Occasionally, people allow the external voices to overcome their own attempts, and this will eventually undermine their personal characteristics. In Alden Nowlan’s works, the Glass Rose, the character Stephen comes across with several collisions simultaneously.
The many men that died on the journey to the summit of the mountain, and the many failed attempts to reach the top represent the failures people experience when trying to accomplish something, yet people still push on because, again, that is human nature. If there is uncharted territory, it’s only going to be a matter of time before someone feels compelled to explore it, no matter how hard or how deadly, and if there is something to achieve it’s only a matter of time before someone does it, no matter how many challenges to
Challenging myself to think outside metaphorical and physical boundaries of the world is the only place in my life where I have felt as though I truly belong. If I stop challenging myself, I lose a part of who I am. My entire life I have been traveling; but this time I feel as though I am steering the ship…I am not merely a passenger on-board my own Odyssey. Nevertheless, the transition did not occur overnight. Change is slow, and it requires constant effort, and necessitates understanding different perspectives and their barriers; It requires me to disenthrall myself from the customary ways of thinking and
But, nature does not exclude humans, human excludes themselves from nature. Within the “mists of [the] chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand and one items to be allowed for”(277). He uses clouds and storms and quicksands to convey that civilized life includes the same negativity included in the connotation of those conditions, but nonetheless, those too are apart of nature. The purpose of utilizing imagery is so evoke images people already have to connect with them on that level to make them understand that they must find a harmony and balance in the world. So, in order to restore order within one’s individual life, one must defy the social norms that distance themselves from nature to find harmony with it.
Heartbreak Hotel is a song that was recorded by Elvis Presley and was written by a high school teacher named Mae Axton and a steel guitar player named Tommy Durden. It was recorded and released in January 1956 by RCA Studios. Elvis was only 21 and Heartbreak Hotel was his first song with the new record label RCA in Nashville, Tennessee. He recorded the song with his band the Blue moon boys. It was his first million-seller and the bestselling single of 1956.
The concept of longing and love is presented in different ways by Rita Dove and Anna Swir in their poems. In “I’ll open the Window,” Anna Swir focuses on the opportunities that the future will bring upon ending a long, tiresome relationship. She employs poetic devices like personification, imagery, onomatopoeia, with a somber mood and reflection on her past relationship. On the contrary, “Flirtation” by Rita Dove conveys a feeling of hope and the joy of starting a new relationship through similes, metaphors, personification, and couplets. Both poems explore the idea of renewed hope that relationships bring either by starting a new one or ending an old one, while employing different stanza length, and creating different moods in the minds of the reader.
This is effectively communicated in Robert Frost’s ‘Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening’ through its use of imagery and dark sensory associations, portraying a pessimistic life of an individual. The catalyst of the reflective lake extrapolates that discovery does not need to be momentous, but merely reflective, allowing him to renew and re-engage with his own sense of reality. Furthermore this is efficaciously demonstrated in James McTeigue’s ‘V for Vendetta’ through high camera shots and low lighting to convey vulnerability and isolation. The hellish torture and the brutality of the government Evey endured behaved as a platform upon which she discovered and renewed her perception of herself and the world around her. Thus both texts are effectual in communicating that discovery and a change of perspective is made possible when we remove ourselves to a place of solace and reflection.
Final “Driving While Stupid” written by Dave Barry explains to his readers why Miami, Florida is the most dangerous place to drive in in the world because of the reckless drivers. Though it is not a fact that Miami has the most dangerous drivers, he explains why he believes it could be the most dangerous by telling the readers the experiences he has been in in many other places. The way he gets his argument across is by using many different hyperboles to emphasis the main point of this short story. In the beginning of his short story, Dave Barry, gives the readers a setting of the “worst darned drivers in the world.”
The theme of the story is about the happiness in life so many people have numbed themselves to or feel as though they are forbidden to feel. Through the surprise and ironic death of the protagonist, Oates shows how easily that joy and happiness can disappear or be ripped away. The setting and theme of this story relates to our current society and how individuals within society feel entitled to extreme privacy and personal space and are unable to cope with stress, anxiety and the struggles of everyday life. Oates also depicts and how an invasion of this could trigger irrational reactions to something as small as a
The narrator begins to change as Robert taught him to see beyond the surface of looking. The narrator feels enlightened and opens up to a new world of vision and imagination. This brief experience has a long lasting effect on the narrator. Being able to shut out everything around us allows an individual the ability to become focused on their relationships, intrapersonal well-being, and