‘Mate you’ve got to be kidding me’, Kristopher babbles to himself as his eyes roll back, for how he now travels pass the Story Bridge to arrive. It seemed old, almost ancient. ‘Why am I here? This is no place for me’ as he sighs while realising his reality. Although the sun’s elegance openly welcomed him with rays of light embracing his body, he brushed it off, as his stern arrogance coldly engulfs the welcomeness. With his self-confidence, it could be assumed that connections and friendship is something beyond his reach, difficult as it was to befriend him; to remain his friends was almost impossible. Insulting one, offending another, hurting the other, maybe it worked well then but truthfully, everyone had enough, enough of his attitude, …show more content…
Quickly, he walked to the toilets, entered a stall and sat there thinking about his actions, while swallowing does the last few bites of his sandwich. Kristopher sat in a daze, just trying to understand the situation that happened within the last 20 minutes. “Those peasants, poor and uneducated. Just our status and class can separate us”. Now reality hit him, slapping him in the face as if he woke from a coma, a nightmare, filled with shock. he’s wrong. Kristopher was the same the same as those who he looked down upon, who was he? No longer anyone, he was the same, where he looked down on everyone including himself. Like Cinderella, his curfew was now up, no longer the prince he was, he now was the same, a ‘peasant’. Silently, Kristopher’s mind began wondering if he really had unknowingly grown into a monster; rejecting all initialisations and welcomes but feeding the creature with his expectations of the past. “Cool, whatever LOL”, he faked lying to himself, attempting to keep his image up, but deeply within him, his emotions were swayed and shaken. For the remaining hours, it felt like decades, trapping himself in a pool of confusion & monstrous curiosity, he hated himself. Losing his mind, he also lost himself as well as his …show more content…
As shadows block his path, left right, all directions were blocked, by Kendrick. “In life, there’s change yet in change, there also is life”. Pausing, he continues, “All I want you to learn is that you must accept, to improve & grow stronger, don’t change yourself, but I’m telling you, to accept yourself by letting go of leagues but to focus on being true with the present and not replicate the past. Change is inevitable, but to grow into a better change – is indeed something else”. Sighing, he mutters to himself, blaming & indicting himself, Kristopher was lost. Almost like a human, with no soul. It was only once in a blue moon did he ever feel so empty, now fearing to look at himself; rude and unwelcomed for yet unknowingly he had become a monster, a side that even he never saw within himself. He was then pulled into a deep embrace, finally he felt at
I had never known, never even imagined for a heartbeat, that there might be a place for people like us.” And it sounds so redemptive after all the misery and confusion that has come before, and because we are given no more access to our narrator’s future it is easy to read it in such a way—that is, after all, how we mostly expect
“And, However unintended, our anger arouses in you….Speech between us is fraught, with tensions; every sentence mined with risk. ” We were too afraid to hate one another, yet we were blind to the fact that these feelings were being brought to the surface. As a result, knowing this now I am moved into being an active member in my current friendships.
He hasn’t looked at himself since the Ghettos, and he is very surprised by what he sees. The author writes, “From the depths of the mirror, a corpse contemplated me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me,” (115). This shows how the main character of our story has been affected by the horrors of the Holocaust. He doesn’t recognize himself, or the person he has become after all this time.
He pointed out Mr. Cathey consistent bombardments of challenges and how he handle each situation. Every good point in his life such as becoming a father was met with a bad point in which he couldn’t go to school because he became a father. The author allowed us to feel happy for the situations that seemed any reasonable person would feel good about and upset about the unforeseen variables that tend to find Mr. Cathey. The author makes sure you feel the joy and pain of a young man who could have made it to a higher level but came up short because of his bad decision
In the midst of all of this he finds a balance by focusing on what really matters. At the same time this keeps him focused on his main goal which is education. Education will be his family's way out of poverty. Through seeing his younger brother that is unemployed and will be having a child soon he looks beyond this and is genuinely proud of where he comes from. He realizes how strong his family is when he seems them fighting through poverty and making things.
When he spoke again, he sounded as baffled as he looked. ‘How can you call him your ‘friend?’’ But he is not my friend... he’s my servant!” (41)
In Mary Shelley’s novel, Frankenstein, Frankenstein’s Monster experiences a sense of self-actualization after coming to terms with his “monster” identity. In chapter 13, after Frankenstein’s Monster learns about human history and social norms, he conducted a self-analysis of his current self. He stated, “I possessed no money, no friends, no kind of property. I was, besides, endued with a figure hideously deformed and loathsome”. Moreover, when he “looked around, he saw and heard of none like [himself].
And this is an undoubtful argument that the narrator changed throat the story, Robert unconsciously succeeds in bringing new psychological and spiritual opening to
In the reading, the term “friend” is used in several different contexts. He talks about the fact that he knows less information about his friends in real life, than his online friends. For example, in the third paragraph he writes “It’s weird that I know more about you than I do about actual friends I hang out with in person--” (182). The general meaning of the word friend now has a different meaning. It used to be people that you knew and with who you were familiar and built a connection with were considered your friend.
Getting out of the lower class becomes unattainable to him as he says, “I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor, and I was going to stay poor” (Bukowski, 2008, p.192). While he initially fantasised of becoming a stardom, he lowers his expectations and desires to be a dishwasher as he notes that he had no interest in anything and no way to escape (Bukowski, 2008, p.174). He is reduced to a shell of his dreamer self and believe to be a failure for the entire life. His thoughts of despair and desperations are seemed to be remedied by his escapism approach.
He was never giving the chance to grow a loving bond between him and another person. Later in life as an adult he showed that the lack of loving contact is provoking reactive attachment disorder. He was shown having only three friends who he trusted. Only three friends this is not normal in a average 20 year old man. When Sean, His psychologist, asks him who his friends are he says Shakespeare, Nietzsche, and several other famously smart men.
Robert being confined to his house during the night, fights the urge, brought through the constant struggle with himself and dealing with his past. This creates internal conflict as he realizes his past life is gone so he drinks to get around the pain. Slowly he gets surrounded by his past and it consumes his fight for survival. But, he realizes
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
“A true friend accepts who you are and helps you become who you should be.” Steve and Nathaniel proved that friendship and happiness can be real in the novel The Soloist by Steve Lopez. The way friendship is portrayed in the novel is unexpected in such a way that we don’t see it happen often in our daily life. It is important to our society because finding a true friend is really difficult to find. True friendship is hard to find now in days because we expect many things in return from other people.
He focuses on trying to make Kappus realize he must look inside himself to discover who he really is so that he can unlock his purpose and make true art. As Rilke focuses on giving Kappus tips on how to discover who Kappus really is, Rilke’s word choice keeps the tone the same through his two central ideas. Throughout