Category: Past

Gatsby sacrificed himself for the love of the past, is it worth it? In the Great Gatsby, Gatsby’s life of the past was poor and hopeless. Gatsby became a rich man five years later, and he refused to recall his past and cover his past with lies. But he still picked up his previous memories in the story. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald reveals the desire make people succeed through the behaviour of Gatsby, expresses the unwillingness to succumb to fate, and compares the unrequited love between the nobility and the poor like Daisy and Gatsby.

First and foremost, the author reflects the desire of human nature by describing the behavior of the character. Gatsby is the core of this article. He exists as a collection of contradictions, transmitting the most complicated side of humanity. There are two kinds of desires in him. One is his longing for rights and money. People can see the deep imprint on him in the era of worship from Gatsby. “Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes, and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor”(Fitzgerald, 2013). Gatsby’s first contact with the aristocrats shocked him. Before that, he had never had such a clear picture; but he strengthened his faith; in the face of eternal wealth, people appear humble and small, and in the hands of money, they can master Go to everything you want. The other is his desire for love of the past. “ ‘Can’t repeat that past?’ he cried incredulously. ‘Why of course you can!’ ”(Fitzgerald, 2013). Gatsby wants to reshape what has happened and somehow bring him together with Daisy’s future. Gatsby stubbornly believed that Daisy’s departure was due to his poverty. He did not blame sin, but blamed all anger on his own poverty, so he unscrupulously obtained wealth. With two desires, Gatsby became a mysterious and wealthy Mr. Gatsby five years later. His attachment and desire for love blinded his eyes, or he knew that he was destined to disillusion and pursue the blazing moment. When Gatsby got the money and status, his heart was not satisfied with it, he wanted more. In his eyes, Daisy is more like the embodiment of eternal wealth and all beautiful things. Therefore, he did not hesitate to let Daisy return to him at all costs, as if the moths were persistent and blazing. Gatsby’s love for Daisy is not only the person of Daisy, but more of the unfinished love that was five years ago. In the end, Gatsby died for this undesired desire and love. Gatsby’s strong desire led to success and prosperity, and the desire to be paranoid and persistent led to the most glorious moment of his life. Human desires are filled with this novel. It can make people get the highest glory, and they can make them fall to death. But whether it is success or failure, it has made you work hard without regret.

What is more, the authors construct the character to reflect their unwillingness to fight for their own destiny. In this novel, people can see that Gatsby is not willing to live in poverty and strive to fight this established destiny. Gatsby was born in poverty, and he longed for money. He is not willing to be a poor man or tragic about his own destiny. Therefore, Gatsby and his fate are unyieldingly fighting. In order to achieve this goal, Gatsby set a strict timetable for his life and study, and worked tirelessly according to the timetable to fight for the fate, hard work and frugality. The 17-year-old Gatsby is doing a livelihood at the beach, as his class should do. It is said that Gatsby is unconventional but destined for an ordinary life will continue this way. And a year later, Cody’s yacht entered here, but it became a turning point in Gatsby’s fate. Five years after the ship was circled in the United States, Cody passed away. Gatsby received only a small bequest from him. What is even more precious is that all the secrets of the upper class were spread before his eyes. “He was left with his singularly appropriate education; the vague contour of Jay Gatsby had filled out to the substantiality of a man”(Fitzgerald, 2013). Gatsby has taken the first step in the fight against fate. As an ordinary soldier, Gatsby, despite his military enthusiasm, is still poor. He completely lost the dawn of Daisy, and began to sell private liquor. He became a rich man, and started to buy luxury villas and host large banquets in order to once again attract the lover Daisy. Gatsby struggled to fight against his tragic fate. He could even say that his struggle was successful. “Gatsby believed in the green light with such intensity that he did not realize his immature dream was unattainable from the start. But due to human nature, the mature dream of social progress as well as individual improvement—the altruistic collective ideal—that too is unattainable”(Hollister, 2014). Even if Gatsby did not realize that his struggle could not have been achieved, he did not wait until he knew that he had disappeared into this rotten era with the fate that had succeeded in his heart. Destiny cannot be changed easily, but when people are unwilling to fight against their own destiny, people maybe get a different ending.

Eventually, the author describes the love of Gatsby and Daisy to reflect the different views of the nobility and the poor. The love between Gatsby and Daisy cannot tell who is right or wrong, but people can feel the views of the different classes on love, especially the nobility. When Gatsby was a child, he had an indescribable ambition because of the environmental bail-out. In order to achieve this goal, he has always believed that self-discipline will make him successful. All in all, Gatsby’s childhood and adolescence, just a few words is enough to let the readers experience the suppression of a great boy. He is like a romanticist wrapped in material and reality. Romance is the core that drives him. The reality is the shackles of his life. In contrast, Daisy’s childhood grew up in the warm western upper class. In this unopened stage, Daisy’s material conditions are rich and unconcerned, and the childish personality and way of thinking have been preserved for a long time, which also develops her cloudless personality – hard to understand and cherish. She is more like a realist who is packaged as innocent. The reality is her bones. Romance is the flesh and blood that she is second to the reality. When the romantic Gatsby encounters realism Daisy, this undoubtedly means the tragedy between them. “According to Rubin’s definition, love consists of ‘Affiliative and dependent need,’ ‘Predisposition to help,’ and ‘Exclusiveness and absorption,’ and ‘Liking’ also has three components: ‘Favorable evaluation,’ ‘Respect,’ and ‘Perception of similarity’ ”(Masuda, 2003). Gatsby’s feeling for Daisy is a mixture of “love” and “like”. In Gatsby’s heart, all the praises are more than the image of Daisy in his mind. At the moment of exposure to reality, perhaps he was disappointed, but continued to use his innocent nature to stick to what he longed for. Daisy’s feeling for Gatsby is swaying between “likes” and “no love”. When she met Gatsby for the first time at the age of eighteen, she was used to and enjoying the feelings of the stars. Therefore, for the matter of feelings, the maiden of the girlhood is like a play. When Gatsby entered her life as an officer, great freshness and passion would influence her. But this relationship is limited to this, there is no exclusivity, no acceptance. The class and experience of Daisy made her finally choose to schedule the future life now. It can be seen that Gatsby’s “love” cannot be exchanged for the true heart of Daisy’s swing. At the level of romantic relationship, there is disparity and disagreement between the nobility and the poor.

To sum up, Gatsby may have been keenly aware of the inevitability of the tragic ending, he tries his best to pursue his own desires, he uses the greatest strength to change the destiny that will eventually decline, and strives for the love and class that is not his own with the greatest strength. Gatsby may have accepted the banter of the ending, but he still tried his best. Because he is standing at the end of his life, he can look back as noble as his proud life, and then go to the inevitable annihilation of his pursuit of this path. Since memories and the past already exist, do not give up on them. Sometimes think about it and look back, they are still part of your current glory.

The past is filled with good and bad memories and the lessons we learned, while the future is to holds our dreams that it will come true or not. The present cannot be successfully lived without a past and the future. Many times, we get caught up in either in the choices of yesterday or in the worries of tomorrows. There are different people that who are living in this world, and everyone has different personalities that everyone doesn’t have. Everyone in this world has unique and different ways. In my case, I grew up with grandma and my uncle who always discriminates me. He judges me by my past life; however, I am more than my past. Now I am older, I am dedicated to making my life be successful.

My life that has influenced me while i’m getting older. The most of the bad and good things i did, while i was growing up have taught me what I want to live out of life. One event was when I was small, my uncle liked drinking beer, but he didn’t know when to stop. Because he did dangerous things that affect my whole family, I don’t even like to drink. It’s a good thing that he stop drinking now because, if he doesn’t , I wouldn’t live with him. He did, however, make that positive influence for me by his negative actions.

When I was 11 years old, I found out that I was pretty good at playing basketball. Because of basketball I’m glad I didn’t turn out like the rest of my neighborhood friends, a bad kid and a lowlife locked up for years. When i feel that my life started getting involved in bad things. Most of my friends were getting is that when I got to high school, I found out that everything you do affects you in the future. I was getting bad grades and I was never able to play sports because of my grades. Now I know I must get good grades to play sports and to graduate to be someone in the future.

The most influential people are my parent, because they would always stop me when I was making bad decisions in my life. One time I was going to stop playing sports just to go hang out with my bad friends and they wouldn’t let me. They always telling me every time, I got in trouble doing stupid things. They would always their for me and care for me and didn’t let me get into bad things. They would always make me come to school, because my parent they always think having an education is the most important thing that the other people don’t get educate and ended liked my neighbor didn’t finish school. My parent they taught me how to live in present not in the past and they showed how to take care of myself. I’m glad to say for myself that I’m satisfied with the person who I am today and the path that I’m taking on that really made me who I am today.

Scars are reminders of one’s life in pain and regret, a constant memory engraved on your actions forever. These scars will begin to fade and heal, the thick skin becoming stronger but it will never completely cease to exist. People will constantly have regrets and continue to make mistakes, and though it will be a continuous journey towards redemption, we can lessen these mistakes through time and learning from what we can do better in the present. Throughout the Kite Runner, many of the vital characters are patronized by their past memories and mistakes. Because we are human, we are able to learn, grow, and heal from said mistakes. Learning from the lessons of the past allows one to build personal self resurrection and an increase of faith. Learning from one’s past mistakes allows reform and renewal, it molds us into an advanced version of ourselves.

From beginning to end readers are able to understand that many of their critical characters are preyed upon by the memories of their past. Amir is constantly filled with regret because of his inaction to ameliorate that actions of Assef, Wali, and Kamal towards Hassan. Amir’s cowardice resulted in Hassan’s rape. It is the haunting of this memory that ultimately leads Amir to on his journey of self resurrection and redemption. Baba is trapped within the memories of committing adultery with Ali’s wife to conceive Hassan. This selfish act leads to Baba to act stern towards Amir. It leads him to become often altruistic within his own work and money. Sohrab is also seen as one encapsulated by his distant memories. Because of the abuse he had endured from Asser, he flinches at the slightest touch of Amir, who is one trying to help. Because of these past acts of violence he has experienced, when all seems lost and he feels as though Amir is going to desert him, he attempts to take his own life.

Although there appear to be many words of violence and terror within the past, there also is another form of remembrance within the book. This remembrance can be seen as remembering all of the good within their past lives, the things that made them happy and did not hurt or harm them. Amir is able to recollect the times he had with Hassan when the were in their youth. The reflection of the past tells of the old, beautiful and welcoming Kabul, before it turned to anger and violence. These good memories intertwined with the bad show signs of hope of what could come to be in the future,not just longing, desire, and sadness for these past events.

Right off the bat, Amir starts off with “I became what I am today at the age of twelve in the winter of 1975” (Hosseini). Here he recalls his own journey from the past, telling of events that ultimately lead to his own self discovery and restoration. Here he begins to find forgiveness within himself for the sins and wrongdoings he had committed towards Hassan. This first person point of view draws clear and concise parallels to Amir’s thoughts as a child compared to those as an adult. While reading the book, the reader can see that Amir is constantly going over his last events, giving himself a constant self assessment regarding his life and his choices. For example, when Amir ran away from the alleyway where Hassan was raped by Assef, Amir remembers, “I actually aspired to cowardice, because the alternative, the real reason I was running, was that Assef was right: Nothing is free in this world” (Hosseini).

Momentarily, the point of view in the book shifts from Amir to Rahim Khan. Rahim Khan tells Amir many details of Hassan’s child and adult life. Included with this description if Hassan and his past life, Khan also tells Amir from a first person perspective of the destruction of the once beautiful and peaceful Afghanistan by many political factions. Khan says, “Our ears became accustomed to the whistle of the falling shells, to the rumble of the gunfire, our eyes familiar with the sight of men digging bodies out of piles of rubble” (Hosseini). Because of this shift from Amir to Khan’s point of view, Hosseini allows the reader to introduce a more detailed glimpse of the effects and the aftermath of the war-torn Afghanistan, which is the place where Amir desperately escaped by moving and fleeing to America.

Our past mistakes or not the sole thing that defines us. How we learn and the things we love have a funny way of coming back to us, if we lose something we truly love, the have a way of returning back to us. Loss is what universally connects each and every one of us. Even through feelings of bitterness, reverence, and longing goodness can stem from evil our past mistakes. Happiness is able to exist and thrive in the world only because of sadness and regret as well. You can not know happiness without the feeling of regret. Through learning from our mistakes, we are able to move past what is hard, what holds us back, to flourish in a new life of forgiveness.

My novel Mystic River’s primary theme is the impact that the past can have over the lives of people. The past events you have been through have affected your feelings, your personality traits, and your future actions. While not particularly deep is the relationship between Sean, Dave, and Jimmy, Dave’s abduction and molestation brings them together for life. Sean and Jimmy realise that their lives would have been quite different if they got in the car that day. Dave does not understand why the kidnappers picked him and does not explain what happened to him.

Firstly, I want to talk about my Mystic River book. David Boyle, Jimmy Marcus, and three 11-year-old friends in a neighbourhood in Boston, Sean Devine, are playing together. Two people drive by in a car as they dance. The men are ask the boys if they want to go on a drive. Although the loss of Jimmy and Sean, David agrees. He gets into the car and for four days is not seen. When he comes back, he’s supposed to be molested. In his time away, he never explains what happened to him, and he faces his decision for the rest of his life to drive the car. The novel uses the trauma of the boys as a springboard for the rest of the story, especially Dave Boyle’s. Twenty-five later, the plot takes up. Boyle is married now, but he continues to suffer from depression and anxiety, and he has some ‘urges’ that he has been trying to suppress for a while. Sean Devine is a Boston murder detective. The storey suggests that in his personal life he has issues. Jimmy Marcus has been in gaol for some time but has been released since then and now owns a shop. When the nineteen-year-old daughter of Jimmy is murdered, the three friends come together again to try and make sense of another tragedy.

Secondly, I would like to talk about the film I picked Cloud Atlas, a 2012 epic science fiction film that the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer wrote and directed. Adapted from David Mitchell’s 2004 novel of the same name, the film has multiple plots that unfold in six various eras in time, Mitchell described it as ‘a kind of calligraphic series.’ The theme of the film describes it as ‘an epic in which our lives have an effect on each other in the past, the present and the future, as one soul is transformed from a murderer to a saviour, and a single act of kindness breaks out.

Finally, the poet Donna tries to say in the poem Changing the Past that the mistakes we make in the past have an effect on our present and future. The author expresses the message that one should let go of the past, it’s not changeable, and we can’t do anything about it. The best we can do is to learn from our past mistakes and strengthen our future by trying to avoid making the same mistakes again. The reason the author felt the need to write this poem was because in the past her brother had some bad choices that led to depression. She was trying to talk to him, but he just didn’t want to open up and let it go. Then she decided to write and dedicate this poem to her brother.

To conclude, I want to say that the past definitely affects the present, but how we approach it is up to us. We can either feel depressed or learn from our mistakes and try not to repeat it again. This essay shows how these characters have a tragic past and how they have been affected not only by their present but also by their future. It’s important to learn from your past mistakes because it can make you and your personality better and make your lives better.

Abstract

The goal of this report is to tell you about the history of anime and how it has come to be. I will be talking about the first ever anime that was created in 1917 in Japan and how they got the idea to create anime in 1960. I will also tell you about how Japan used anime to promote the war in World War 2. Finally, I will be telling you who created anime in the first place and I think you will be quite surprised. Anime is the backbone of cartoons, without them we wouldn’t have Dragon Ball, Blue exorcist or even Pokémon which is everyone’s favourite so let’s get into this.

INTRODUCTION

The history of anime is one of the most interesting and fun things to learn about and to figure out how it came to be (me). Japanese anime was created in 1917 and it has become one of the most popular animations in the present day (me). “The characteristic anime art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of Osamu Tezuka and spread internationally in the late twentieth century (Marcia Stefania).”

The rise of anime promoted war when the japanese created a short film with characters animated to be japanese jumping onto the United States territory (me). Learning about the history of anime and finding out that a doctor created the first anime is very interesting but I will get more into that later on (me).

I learned that there are so many different types of anime starting from 1917 to present day. By researching and watching some anime I have found out how much it has changed since the first one was created.

The First Anime

“The word anime is the japanese term of “animation” (Stefania), anime was first created in 1917 when silent films were and Japan wanted a piece of that action. The first anime wasn’t very popular when it came out in 1917 but in 1960’s is when it really blew up, when the first anime T.V. show came out.

“They face an uphill battle as they were also overshadowed by the popularity of Disney cartoons” (Stefania). It’s true Walt Disney’s cartoons were one of the most popular cartoons in the United States and that is when Japan got the idea for the new anime. Japan got their ideas for the new anime show from the 1937 “Snow White and The Seven Dwarves” (Stefania).

They named the anime Tetsuwan Atomu or also better known as Astro Boy in other countries. Tetsuwan Atomu was a hit in Japan and all over the world, Tetsuwan Atomu was created to show children how to respect others and a cartoon was the best way to do it. Tetsuwan Atomu or Astro Boy aired for three years, from 1961 to 1964, now in the present there was a movie based on this anime called Astro Boy.

WW2 & How Anime Promoted It

In 1936 is when Japan created a short film to promote the war effect and is what eventually started the propaganda of World War 2 (me). The short film attacked the westeren politics that the Americans believed in, in the film it shows the japanese characters jumping onto a map that said America which induced the war effect.

The Japanese characters were called the Momotaro’s Sea Eagles, they were produced by the Japanese Imperial Navy. “Momotaro is the first Japanese animated propaganda film that was aired in Japan. (Stefania)” After the war is when they produced Astro Boy which influenced many Japanese animation creators. Astro Boy was heavily related to the war during the time of the war, that’s why it was such a popular television show to watch all over the world. (me)

The Doctor That Created it All

Dr. Osamu Tezuka is the creator of anime and the main reason why we have all of our favourite animes to this day, like Dragon Ball Z, Pokemon, Death Note and much more. Many people have called Tezuka ‘Walt Disney of Japan’, ‘God of Comics’, ‘A Legend in his Own Time’ (Brian Cirulnick) and it is the most truest statement anyone has ever said. Osamu knew that he wanted to be an animator since the age of four, being inspired by Walt Disney and Max Fleischer with their earlier non speaking short films (me).

Tezuka published his earliest manga when he was studying to get his medical degree since his father was a doctor he wanted to follow in his footsteps, but he never did that (me). The first ever manga that he ever published was Tetsuwan Atomu or better known as Astro Boy (me).

In 1957 Tezuka signed onto a contract with Toei Animations and after a year of working there he became Dr. Osamu Tezuka in 1958 (me). He ended his contract with Toei Animations in 1962 and started his own Animation company (me).

His company was called Mushi Productions and that is when he got the idea to produce a new T.V. series called Astro Boy based on the manga he published, it was a hit, it lasted for three from 1961 to 1964 (me).

Conclusion

While writing this report I have had a lot of time to think about how anime affected the past and current time and how it has come to be in the present world. Learning about how a doctor created the first real anime blew my mind and how it has come so far since when Omasu Tezuka created Tetsuwan Atumo. Finding out that a short film promoted World War 2 is quite weird but it was still fun to watch the short film and to see how that propaganda had started in Japan to make the war happen. Dr. Osamu Tezuka is the God of anime and without him pursuing making manga and anime we would have never been able to have all the amazing shows we have today.

“If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever”. The Dalai Lama uses this quote to create a perfect illustration of how people worry too much about what they can’t change. Countless people consistently ask what-if questions, gather anxiety, and deal with stress every day. What is more, is that this is all due to one underlying factor: worrying. People spend so much of their day worrying, asking themselves questions and having thoughts such as, ‘What will this person expect if they find out this happened before?’, or ‘I can’t believe I made such a huge mistake’. However, thoughts such as these are doing nothing but bringing along more stress. And the truth is, focusing on past mistakes causes us to worry and dwell far too often. Thanks to this, all different kinds of people then begin to care what people think due to fear of judgment. Ultimately, the past is the past, and the present is now. No one should fret or lose sleep over past mistakes that no one has the power to change.

We spend so much time concerned about our past and our mistakes, but what for? The past is never meant to be a burden on ourselves, but rather something we can learn from. Focusing on things that happened yesterday, or the day before, or whenever it is us placing an unnecessary weight on our shoulders. The reality is that everyone has a past. There is no reason for one sole person to live in fear of judgment. There is no reason for one person to be ashamed of themselves. Wasting time worrying will never change former times and previous events. We can’t spend time worrying about the past when there is time to spend focusing on the present and the future. The only way you can continue being harmed by something that already happened is if you let it. People who spend too much time worrying about the past prevents them from having lasting happiness because they’re building on regrets. We can’t worry about mistakes, bad choices, being hurt, and hurting others, because imperfections like these are part of being human. The past is gone forever, and rehashing these memories is pointless. This isn’t something that just gets to us either. It can also prevent us from building relationships with other people. This is the source of so many negative emotions. The only way to fix this is by being more present, mindful, and taking the time to listen.

Worrying about the past causes us to worry about every mistake we’ve made. When we make strings of mistakes, we often overreact and feel like our life is falling apart. However, mistakes are something we can choose to learn from rather than overreact about and worry too much about. While the mistakes we make will always have consequences and repercussions, but this should always be seen as an opportunity to learn from this and show how your mistake doesn’t define you and to prove your true character. Mistakes are always an opportunity to improve yourself, because once you’ve hit rock bottom, you can only go up from there. We shouldn’t worry about this because everybody makes mistakes and nobody is perfect. Even though nobody likes making mistakes, they are inevitable. They just can’t be avoided. Instead of worrying about them, we should be grateful for all that mistakes teach us. They give us lessons such as telling us things we didn’t know about ourselves or others, to warn us, help us value forgiveness, make us humble, show us our true feelings, and much more. Mistakes are just part of the process of growth and development. When mistakes are handled the proper way, without too much worry, we enjoy all aspects of life more, and we are more accepting of our own mistakes as well as others’ mistakes.

All in all, when we worry too much about our mistakes, we begin to worry too much about what people think of us. It can be very difficult to stop worrying about what others think, but it is possible. Almost everyone has worried too much and overestimated what other people think of our embarrassing moments, our mistakes, and our failings. When we worry too much about what people think, we become afraid to say how we feel, we avoid certain circumstances, and do things we don’t want to in fear of judgment. This causes a huge decline in how happy and confident we are in ourselves. Then, that becomes all we can focus on and it inhibits too much of our daily thoughts. When we do this, it causes a lot of anxiety and insecurities. But the reality is, we don’t need anybody else’s approval to be ourselves, and what other people think of us is none of our business. To stop worrying so much about what people think, it’s important to stop worrying and focus on what’s happening at the moment – in the present. We are living in the present, not the past. Don’t focus on what might happen with other people, because other people are out of your control. You are only in control of yourself and need to be able to keep your positive mindset without worrying about how others might affect you. And with this, you have to accept yourself. Then, once you’ve achieved this, you can live carefreely and stop worrying too much about what people think of you.

To conclude, the past is the past, and we can’t choose to live in it and worry over it. We can’t worry about the past, the mistakes we once made, and what people will think of us because of it. To live in the present allows us to stop worrying and focus on what’s happening now. Focus on the moment and accept yourself and your past mistakes. We can’t waste time worrying about the what-ifs to change parts of the past, but rather spend time looking at the person you are now, and life will be much more joyful. To quote the influential John Newton: “We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday’s burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it”.

All through life, there are sure occasions that leave people perpetually scarred and searching for and physical and emotional relief, regardless of whether they are the prey or predator. The novel, the Dew Breaker composed by Edwidge Danticat, shows this thought through the characters who share trauma from the frightening occasions made by Duvalier’s (Papa doc) tyranny in Haiti. Danticat intentionally split the novel up into nine stories that at first appear to be disjointed yet are in reality particularly connected in many ways, with helping the reader see how one individual could influence the lives of various people. The inescapable topic of the past and remembrance of it in The Dew Breaker hovers around the possibility of a lot of emotional and physical scars. So I argue can past scars and traumatic events affect a person’s future and behaviour?

The novel gave numerous stories demonstrating physical and emotional traumas. In the chapter, The Bridal Seamstress a bridal seamstress named Beatrice who was the victim of a Tonton Macoute because of the fact that she declined to go on a dance with him. As the reaction to her refusal, the torturer captured her and “whipped the bottom of my feet until they bled. Then he made me walk home, barefoot” (Danticat 132). The extreme physical torment Beatrice endured on account of her faithfulness and love for the man in her life caused her devastating scars. She locks up those bad memories behind a organized pattern of making dresses and so forth. Beatrice left Haiti and began another life but the painted past keeps on surfacing in her regular daily existence it keeps her from having a spouse, children or friends that are close. Beatrice adjusts for this vacancy in her life by giving her customers a chance to call her mom and calls them her children/girls. Beatrice utilizes these affectionate nicknames additionally to disguise her being unmarried. The Bridal seamstress’s awful experience has another impact on her life. Beatrice suffers from paranoia in order to cope with the past. She envisions the “Tonton Macoute” who tormented her in Haiti is going and following everything and everywhere she goes. Along these lines, she resigns from her sending notes to her customers with a specific end goal to stay under the radar and escape from her nonexistent persecutor. For Beatrice, “there is no such thing was, because past is.” Beatrice has a perspective on life that says,”Everything happens when it’s intended to happen” (Danticat 125). To explain that statement is how Beatrice accepts the feeling of being hopeless and powerless to control her lives future since it’s tormented by her past.

With that stated the argument that was brought up is proven right that the scars from the past does affect one’s behaviour patterns and future.The three ladies of The Funeral Singer understand that their past is a piece of their future lives and can’t be avoided. In this way, they begin to discuss it and wind up concluding that in managing their horrendous past it is important to converse with somebody and letting up. The trio winds up creating a connection to their nation. Much the same as the dew breaker chapter in the book with the fundamental character being Ka’s dad who was a dew breaker, Although numerous families and people were put through a ton of devastating trauma on account of Ka’s dad, he himself endured trauma, however predominantly from guilt. He is known as the “Dew Breaker” hence the chapter title. It’s a term used to portray jail watchers like him in the Haitian autocracy. Normally they “Come before dawn, as the dew was settling on the leaves, and they’d take you away” (Danticat 131). Before he met his wife Anne, he slaughtered numerous individuals whose relatives still lament from their lost. Ka’s dad ended up killing a well known preacher because of his misleading from the dictators ways towards the people and with trying not to kill the preacher he got a scar on his face from trying to withstrain him. Ever since that moment Ka’s father has being self-conscious about his scar from feeling guilt to not take pictures to whenever his past comes up he tries to run away or tell lies about it.

Audrey Hepo in a well written poem on her website explains how scars and trumas play on a person This quote from the poem refers to a person being the temple holding their fears,traumas and distress within them keeping it hidden from the outside world holding it in so they can’t get hurt from their past, which is very relatable to the constant theme in the book The Dew Breaker with everyone hiding scars. The poem states,“My temple is covered in scars, each scar telling a story… and so I covered the temple with scars, attempting to hide the true tale,then locked myself behind these bars In the end to no avail.”[Audrey hepo] This is seen in the book through all nine stories it’s the factor of everyone not having someone to really talk or relate to about the traumatic events that happened to them are their just too ashamed. The author Lance Brown added a resolve to emotional scars and physical events through the non-fictional cite of his article on physical and emotional scars,“You may be able to heal without speaking to anyone else about it, but you probably will need to speak to yourself about it quite a bit. The key isn’t who you talk to about it, it’s how you approach the talk”(Brown Quora). This statement means it doesn’t matter if your too scared to talk to anyone but as long as you can sit down one and one with yourself, you can push through your problems.In conclusion, I have proven the argument to be correct that physical trauma and emotional scars do play a major role on an individual’s aspects of behaviour and upcoming future. Through my essay I elaborated on the different ways how the past manipulates a person to even terrify them to a point where they are powerless. I also added solutions on a counter to how people could deal with their tragic trauma and emotional suffering.