<p>Though, in case you aren’t too familiar with the grading, use the following criteria:
- You pretend you’ve been reading a lot of essays and have a lot more to finish so you go through it in a minute or 2 then grade on the following criteria:
*Okay grammer.
*Nice vocab.
*Conveys thesis properly.
*Doesn’t deviate from topic.
THAT’S IT.</p>
<p>Topic: Do you think that ease does not challenge us and that we need adversity to help us discover who we are?</p>
<p>Essay:
A person is incapable of revealing the treasure of discovering who he/she is without going to “No man’s land,” and coming back alive. That is the absolute, categorical truth. Although romantic critics would beg to differ and argue that a person can get to know his/her self just through retrospection and logical thinking, they are to narrow minded in their approach and fail to realize that the very pillar their argument stands firm upon has all its cracks and weaknesses where the inexperienced eye does not see; the only reason a person reflects and makes sense of him/her-self is after adversity. A wise Arab philosopher once said, “A camel takes up a lot of water only after it realizes it’s a creature of the desert.” Making it easy for me are 3 examples that exemplify my thesis.
People say a man comes back from war a different person, but really, he return recognizing who he (and the rest of the world) really is. Amir Glascov’s (a soldier of World War 1) family reports that before the war, he was a funny, comic man who clowned around and never really took things seriously. After coming back physically unchanged but having witnessed what “No man’s land,” had to offer, his character had “changed”. He took things with the austerity they deserved and looked at the future in a realistic manner. He had respect for people now. It made him a better man. Though this family says he changed, in reality, he realized that he was a man in a world where comic reliefs are not what made the world go round. He realized his true place as a human being and role in society.
Almost every work of Literature shows the “changed” character after he/she went through some big conflict. In the movie series, “The Matrix”, Neo, the main character, was a lost American man with the regular problems of an adult. Not sure who he was, he was taken into the reality of the “Matrix” by a special group of people. He wasn’t able to cope well and realize what his identity truely was until the moment he got shot several times and entered into “No Man’s Land,”. Miraculously, he got up and realized he was “The One”.
Finally, for a kid in school, being the one subject to bullying is considered a bad thing. However, when one survives through it, he/she realizes that he/she is stronger than he/she thinks. Demi Levato, a famous singer, was subject to a lot of browbeating and even went to therapy for it. Coming out however, she described in an interview, “Even though it was really tough, I feel like a stronger person now. In fact, I always was strong but it never came out 'till I went through the worst part of my life.”
With all that’s been said and done, from Amir to Neo to Demi, it is clearly seen that adversity reveals the treasure of discovering one’s self and to think otherwise is to look at one side of the pillar. </p>
<p>Just wanted to ask; did you notice that the qoute, Amir, and the interview of Demi are all made up or no?</p>