Hope In Hempfel's 'The Man In Bogota'

Hope for a Person’s Survival In order for a person to want to survive there has to be something for them to hold on too. A person’s life always has some kind of influence. Most people look for a positive outcome in order to want to wake up each day. This form of outcome could be hope. Hope is essential in one’s life in the desire for a positive outcome. Hope gives every person the belief in different expectations that are unseen and unknown, but still the ability to believe. Hope gives a person the fulfillment to be able to strive to succeed in life and become a better person than the day before. It gives a person the ability to have the desire to anticipate a future. It is clear in “The Man in Bogota” by Amy Hempfel, that she
Hempfel was trying to give the woman a different type of outcome, which was hope. Hempfel explains, “Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the question that occurred to that man in Bogota. He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn’t good.” Even if there is a negative situation happening, hope can always be the alternative to get a person through the problem. Another example of hope in the essay is from the wife. She has to have hope that the captors will release her husband after she gives them the money. Also the husband has to have hope that his captors will release him after the ransom is paid. Hempfel stated, “His captors made him quit smoking. They changed his diet and made him exercise every day. They held him that way for three months.” If the man in Bogota did not have any hope he would have given up and not done what the captors had said. This is a great example of how hope is essential for a person to survive. First, Martin Luther King Jr. is a great person to show as an example on how hope is necessary. As any person knows he was a highly influential person with the civil rights movements. Editors of The Millennium Reader, by Stuart Hirschberg and Terry Hirschberg
This is the faith that I go back to the South with. And with this faith we will be able to hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope. With this faith we will be able to transform the jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. With this faith we will be able to work together, to play together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. (536) This gave the blacks the desire for the unknown through hope. From Martin Luther King Jr. any person could understand how hope is key to waking up each and every day. Hope gives a person the ability to anticipate the future and look for a positive