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Story #1 (journey is discontinued) Title & Characters Tell about the journey
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In “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson story certain villages are discontinuing the lottery. These villages will be the example of a journey ending.
In the story, villages used the lottery to pick one person each year to stone to death. The villagers believed that this would make their crops better for the next harvest. In the story, villages are discontinuing the lottery. This is an example of abandoning a journey.
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In the story, two brothers got to a point where they disagreed and started their journeys. In this short story, two brothers were hiking together. One morning of their journey the brothers woke up with a rock writing on it. The rock said that if they completed a series of tasks that there would be a reward at the end. The younger brother set off on his separate journey to complete these tasks, and the older brother stayed and created his own life. The decisions that the two brothers made shows that a journey and can end when you set off on another one.
According to the text, “The younger brother set off, and the elder remained behind.” (Tolstoy 2). This quote proves that a journey ends when another starts because the original purpose of the journey was for both brothers to accomplish the goal. When their different opinions set them aside, they stopped that journey and started their own.
Book #1 (finding a better version of yourself) Title & Characters Tell about the journey
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In Orbiting Jupiter by Gary D. Schmidt Jack’s family adopts Joseph who is a teenage father. Throughout the book Joseph works to find his daughter, Jupiter. He eventually finds his daughter and is changed emotionally and mentally. During Joseph’s journey he learns that he needs to change and be the best man he can be to love and support his new daughter. He does eventually change, but he didn’t really get what he wanted.
The author wrote, “What Joseph did want to hear, though, was anything about Jupiter -- and the librarian kept her promise: she wrote to Joseph every week. . . And you know what? At night now, I wasn’t hearing anything from Stone Mountain.”(166 Schmidt). This makes the fact that a journey can end when you find a better version of yourself clear because Joseph did it. He went from that kid who would always break rules, and cause problems to a loving father. He found a better version of himself, and found a way to end his journey of being bad, and started a new journey by being a father.
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