quite a depressing thing to read about that much unhappiness and regret among only a few people. However‚ there is one main optimistic point I feel has to be made. All the way through the story‚ whatever the situation‚ Lennie has a wonderful sense of hope about the farm they dream of owning. He amuses himself endlessly thinking about this farm and all the wonderful things they’ll be able to do there. Even when he is in a dangerous
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Catherine (Kate) Rudolph What I Hope To Accomplish Ten Years from Now In ten years‚ I hope to have made my dreams‚ my reality. I have always strived to achieve what I want most in life. As I get older‚ however‚ I realize what I want in life has changed greatly from year to year. What I wanted out of life at 15 had changed drastically by the time I turned 25. At 35‚ I scoffed at the unrealistic notions I had planned for myself as a teenager. Now‚ at the age of nearly 45‚ I have found
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can falsely rase the hope of others and lower suspicions. During the Holocaust‚ people had faced the demons of hunger‚ loss‚ and general sadness due to a group of people disliking their race. Ninety-one precent of people died due to starvation and murder‚ but some still remained positive to the most extent‚ for better and worse. In Milkweed‚ Jerry Spinelli crafts characters who turn the cruelty of the Warsaw Ghetto into hope and happyness. The hope of others could give hope to many and be a reason
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suggestion to express mystical ideas‚ emotions‚ and states of mind.Example: “…hard to find any real emotion. It simply wasn’t there. After that long night in the rain‚ I’d seemed to grow cold inside‚ all the illusions gone‚ all the old ambitions and hopes for myself sucked away into the mud.” “…Unwrap the letters‚ hold them with the tips of his fingers‚ and spend the last hour of light pretending. He would imagine romantic camping trips into the White Mountains in New Hampshire. He would sometimes
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When put in survival situations‚ people’s minds gravitate to a new way of thinking; to be optimistic or pessimistic. They either think the worst is coming and have already accepted their fate‚ or they pray for the best and try to sustain hope and keep others optimistic. In the novel Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys‚ Lina Vilkas‚ a young woman living in Lithuania as Stalin‚ takes over‚ is set on a harrowing journey. Lina and family are forced to travel thousands of miles to a work camp by no
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bickered well into the evening. I tried to understand‚ in the hope of leaning something about where we were going and why" (p. 34‚ Hill). In this quotation‚ Aminata’s journey is described with a bleak and demoralizing tone. The journey of Aminata and her hostages lasted "for many suns" and wore down their hope for freedom and their faith in humanity. The hostages continued "lumbering forward" as "an entire town of kidnapped peoples‚" with no hope of being saved. When "people swarmed out to stare at us
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dishonest and downright villainy presented false hopes to the public. Scare tactic: “Here’s one promise I’ll make‚ and boss Jim Gettys knows I’ll keep it:” False dilemma: Kane’s statement “I’d make promises now if I weren’t too busy arranging to keep them” Begging the question: Kane said “I made no campaign promises‚ because until a few weeks ago‚ I had no hope of being elected.” This statement suggests that he concludes that now that he has hopes of being elected‚ it is time for him to make promises
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IN THAT IT SEEMS TO FAIL. Life has resilient nature‚ it never let hope to cut off even in the lurch. It arrives at specific conditioning through entertaining demands at variable intervals and in variable amounts and some times at discretion. This comes up with optimism. Optimism let one to crow over even in inauspicious conditions. In fact life do miracles in lurch conditions and turns the corner. It triumphs‚ when there is no hope of its victory. Traditional stories‚ which are being recounted
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for some teenagers‚ it means getting a job. In the books Nantucket Blue and Nantucket Red‚ Cricket Thompson‚ a teenager from Providence entering her senior year‚ went all the way to Nantucket for a summer job with hopes to make some fun memories and leave her problems back at home. Hope is a goal or dream for Cricket in her future that is going to sometimes not be in reach‚ be within reach‚ or what is not ultimately right for her in the end. Nantucket‚ a small vacation island off of Cape Cod‚ was
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Correspondent” interview McCall Smith says Botswana is a very beautiful country and that Africa transformed him into a best selling novelist and made him famous for his views on hope and optimism. There is a strong sense of family and community that gives cause for belonging‚ hope and optimism. McCall Smith creates hope and optimism in his novel through his characters and their events. The main character Mma Ramotswe illustrates the qualities of the conventional patriotism of one’s own country
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