Meaningful life
Noè Molina
Mr. Stamos
Expository Essay
1 December, 2012
What does it mean to live a meaningful life? “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.”- Leonardo da Vinci. There are few people in this world that know what it means to live a meaningful life. They think about everyone else before themselves, they begin to realize the things that matter the most, and they follow the rules. “The Man in the Water”, a 1982 LA Times article by Roger Rosenblatt, shows that not everyone is selfish. “Every time they lowered a lifeline and flotation ring to him, he passed it on to another of the passengers.”(Roger Rosenblatt). This shows that every time Lenny is offered to be saved, he passes up the offer to someone else. Also, he values the lives of others more than his own. “Like every other person on that flight, he was desperate to live, which makes his final act so stunning.”(Roger Rosenblatt). Not only did he care about others, but he also cares about himself. This shows that he didn’t want to die. He sees what matter the most, just as everyman does. In Everyman, a medieval morality play, Everyman sees that he can only take one person to go with him with death. “Yea, if any be so hardy that would go with thee and bear thee company.”(Death, 125). Death is allowing Everyman to take someone with him if he can find one. This shows that Everyman must find someone to keep him company on this journey. ”And you do by me, that journey with you will I take.”(good deeds, 305). In this, good deeds tells Everyman that he will go with him on his journey. Everyman realizes that only good deeds will go with him and no one else will. He becomes humble in death. He goes to a confession to restore health to good deeds; Phil Conners does the same thing in “Groundhog day.” In “Groundhog day,” a 1993 film adaptation of “Everyman;” directed by Harold Ramis, Phil Connors is repeating February the second over and over again. “Well, what if there is no
Mr. Stamos
Expository Essay
1 December, 2012
What does it mean to live a meaningful life? “As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings happy death.”- Leonardo da Vinci. There are few people in this world that know what it means to live a meaningful life. They think about everyone else before themselves, they begin to realize the things that matter the most, and they follow the rules. “The Man in the Water”, a 1982 LA Times article by Roger Rosenblatt, shows that not everyone is selfish. “Every time they lowered a lifeline and flotation ring to him, he passed it on to another of the passengers.”(Roger Rosenblatt). This shows that every time Lenny is offered to be saved, he passes up the offer to someone else. Also, he values the lives of others more than his own. “Like every other person on that flight, he was desperate to live, which makes his final act so stunning.”(Roger Rosenblatt). Not only did he care about others, but he also cares about himself. This shows that he didn’t want to die. He sees what matter the most, just as everyman does. In Everyman, a medieval morality play, Everyman sees that he can only take one person to go with him with death. “Yea, if any be so hardy that would go with thee and bear thee company.”(Death, 125). Death is allowing Everyman to take someone with him if he can find one. This shows that Everyman must find someone to keep him company on this journey. ”And you do by me, that journey with you will I take.”(good deeds, 305). In this, good deeds tells Everyman that he will go with him on his journey. Everyman realizes that only good deeds will go with him and no one else will. He becomes humble in death. He goes to a confession to restore health to good deeds; Phil Conners does the same thing in “Groundhog day.” In “Groundhog day,” a 1993 film adaptation of “Everyman;” directed by Harold Ramis, Phil Connors is repeating February the second over and over again. “Well, what if there is no