As our lives progress, we srd and how hard it is to survive. We must stand strong and pull through all the hardships we come across. Richard Wright¡¦s Black Boy, makes us understand how hard surviving can be. ¡§There was not a single boy in sight. That night I won the right to the streets of Memphis¡¨ (18). As Richard finally fights off the bullies by the grocery store, we can understand how fear can serve as a key to survival. By conquering fear, Richard survives on the streets of Memphis. By being forced to fight against not just the bullies, but our own fear we hold a greater chance teac

Survival is what we all hope for. If we had the choice to kill ourselves now do you think we would? We¡¦ll of course we will all die but can we experience life again? Life is a one time thing and so is death. We stretch the life line to see how long it can get and how many experiences we can have. Survival can be hard to come by and it can not meant at all for another, but the longer you survive the more experiences you will have. We must not only survive physically but mentally and pull ourselves through thick and through thin, thinking about our actions and staying unified with our family and friends. Survival is the door to life and life is the beginning to anything you can possibly think of, even death.

As a child evolves into an adolescent, usually they don¡¦t realize that mental survival is imperative to their lives. Emerson¡¦s Self-Reliance explains how we cannot survive living lives derived around society. ¡§Imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion¡¨ (1). Emerson teaches us that we cannot survive mentally if we mimic society¡¦s actions. Society kills our individuality, our thoughts, and our ideas. Most people try so hard to please society to achieve acceptance, where on the other hand we are just blocking ourselves from our wonderful ideas in fear of being neglected. Mentally our lives deteriorate when we live like society wants us to live. Society has created a life that is beyond the definition of survival. ¡§I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor¡KAt present I am a sojourner in civilized life again¡¨ (1). Henry David Thoreau¡¦s Walden conveys that society has created a world where everything is based around money, and our individualism is taken away. Thoreau tries to explain how society is based on ¡§survival of the fittest,¡¨ where the best people get the better jobs, and the more money. In this way Thoreau contradicts the meaning of survival demonstrating how society is materialistic and how the only thing keen to our survival is how we can live for ourselves and think by ourselves.

hes his audience fear motivates us to survive. Richard survives his childhood as Ellen does in Kaye Gibbons¡¦ novel, Ellen Foster. ¡§And all this time I thought I had the hardest row to hoe¡¨ (124). Ellen learns a v

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