Part Two: How to Examine the Effects of Personal Hardships Hardships occur in and usually greatly impact the lives of everyone, especially those who are at an age where they are still discovering who they are and how they fit into the “big picture” of life. For most, this self-discovery takes place in a collection of years known as the teens and can involve anything from a bad break up to suicide to eating disorders and then some. Essentially, by the time a person hits legal age, they have experienced events that will forever change how they view themselves and the world they are about to enter. For this reason, examining how hardships effect personal development seemed of interest; adversity has been and is still present in both our lives as well as our peers, and has greatly impacted our futures in different ways. The majority of the research will be in a psychological context since it is familiar. Both of us have had personal experience with depression, suicide, and other hardships that have changed us dramatically, and we intend to include those in our examination of the topic.
Another context that needs to be explored is social, since society can dictate the boundaries on personal development; this would mostly be studied through interview of peers or historical examples such as the holocaust. In a literary context, we felt that various characters from To Kill a Mockingbird, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Good Earth, and Lord of the Flies brought up the question in discussions. Scout for example was stuck in the middle of racial issues brought on by her father’s decision to defend a black man, and this led her to become more open-minded than most people in her small town. Mick was an outcast in both her family and her school, and her isolationism led her to her own version of reality known as the “inner room” which she eventually stepped out of.
The Essay on Establishing Personal Goals in Life
As the most of my peers, I have been asking myself a question, what is it really I want out of my life? This question has not only been bothering me, but also many college students who are trying to figure out the path which will lead them to their comfortable life. One might ask, what is that comfort that we all are striving for? Is it a state of mind or is it some unknown world that we are so ...
Wang Lung’s hardships were mostly pecuniary, but turned him from a modest farmer into the type of person he use to resent. The survival-of-the-fittest struggles that the adolescent boys in The Lord of the Flies went through had psychological effects that will cause them to see themselves and others as merely contained savages. With the help of ideas presented by authors, psychologist, and through our own personal experiences as well as the experiences of those around us, we hope to better understand this unanswerable question: How are hardships helpful to personal development?
