In the literary works of Everyman and the Book of Job, both tell a story of a protagonist on a quest. The two protagonists go on their own quests, Everyman on his quest for companionship, and Job on his quest for understanding divine justice. Their quests are different, yet they both encounter similar obstacles along the way of their journey. As they make way towards their own journey, the obstacles they encounter are their own friends who betray them. Everyman and Job both learn the hard way that friends are not always true in the end. In Everyman, Everyman goes on a quest to find a friend that will journey with him to death. Everyman hopes that his good friend Fellowship will be the one who will make his account to God with him as Fellowship tells him, “I will not forsake thee to my life’s end”, (Line 213). In this line, Fellowship is giving Everyman false hope, saying that he will go wherever he goes even if it kills him, not knowing what Everyman truly wants from him. When Fellowship realizes that Everyman wants him to join his journey to death, he goes against his …show more content…
God’s punishments leaves Job with nothing left to his name to the point where he cries out to the heavens, “My closest friends have forgotten me”, (Chapter 19, line 14). In this line, Job is feeling betrayed by his own friends, who blame him for his unfortunate situation. They believe that Job has sinned and should repent so that god will forgive him. Thinking he has done nothing wrong, Job is angered that his friends would accuse him of sinning. His friends abandon him after he refuses to repent, leaving Job to continue his quest for divine justice alone. Eventually, his quest is successful as he learns that he is only man and he will never truly understand God’s acts. In addition, he learns that his friends were not true to him or God, betraying the two when they were the ones in the
Instead of encouraging him and speaking the truths of the Lord, they blame and discourage him, assuming that everything that is happening to him is due to his own fault. This verse’s significance also rises from the fact that it reveals that Job only needs and only relies on the Lord. Even though his own friends turn against him and falsely accuse him, Job’s faith is not shaken and he continues to seek the Lord. This fact shows Job to be faithful, perseverant, and dedicated to his Father. Job knows that the wicked, perhaps including his friends, are “reserved for the day of calamity…and…will be led forth at
Before reading The Book of Job, as translated by Stephen Mitchell, I had no prior experience reading this in the bible. After reading this story, the theme of the story stood out to me as a man’s test of faith. Throughout the story, Job is presented with obstacles to his faith in a God figure, by a figure of Satan. Satan proposes to God that Job will lose faith in him if his circumstances are altered in a negative way. The first obstacle Satan presents is taking away the worldly possessions that Jobs loves.
He ascertains his truth, and he learns what it has to offer him, and by the time he dies, he knows he has found what he is looking for all
Similarities and Differences Between U.S. and Japan POW Camps The novel Unbroken is a narrative about a man named Louis Zamperini who went from being an olympic runner to prisoner in the worst prisoner of war camp during World War II. He has to overcome many obstacles such as surviving on a raft after his plane crashes and staying alive at Execution Island. The author of the novel, Laura Hillenbrand, was born in Fairfax, Virginia on May 15, 1967. She is an author who writes novels and magazines and has sold over 13 million copies between her two bestselling novels, Unbroken and Seabiscuit:
Even so, he decides to pursue his studies. As a result, his creation comes back to haunt him by murdering most of the people dear to
The Book of Job provides an example of how people should praise God by illustrating a blameless, responsible, and fearing man who will always turn away from evil. Therefore, this book presents the same man tortured by outside forces lacking the possibility to acquire help from family and friends. Throughout the reading in particular (14:11) demonstrates how there was a moment of weakness in which Job fails and ask for his death, but after all, he did not commit sin and endured waiting for his torment to banish. In addition, the book reveals how men turned against a man in need and instead judged him without understanding the sources causing his disgrace. However, the book provides a comparison in how humans behave by providing vivid examples of characters who showed behaviors illustrating how humanity functions.
One should extrapolate from the comforters’ Bad Faith that it is necessary to personally examine preconceived principles that one holds, lest one blindly adheres to a flawed doctrine. Conversely, Job acts Authentically. He sees the meaningless and irrationality of his world and instead of seeking to apply order to it he accepts his fate. In Job’s story there is a lesson for all humanity. Whether or not one believes in God, one cannot doubt that the world is confusing and sometimes appears to be a hopeless place.
The first friend, Eliphaz, tries to explain to Job that he cannot be innocent before God based on what he has seen in the world. He contests that although
In the end he does not get what he wants, but he realizes that to become what he wanted one has to sell their soul, losing compassion for
In the following comparative essay I will be discussing the literacy of practices used outside of school for pleasure by comparing and contrasting the reading, writing and digital literacy use of British Asian girls and Welsh girls and how this has influenced or affected their bicultural and bilingual identity using information from an article written by Susan Jones in 2006, as well as information I’ve gained from my lectures and own personal experience. Literacy practices includes everything you read and write. If you are reading and writing for pleasure you are choosing what you want to read or write in your free time. Fry suggests that “what we choose to read, or simply the books we have in our possession, are indices of the ways in which we want to be seen and the ways we see ourselves”(Fry, 1985, p.96). The Welsh girls are more comfortable with reading welsh as the texts are more contemporary in nature compared to the texts which the British-Asian girls read but they still choose to read texts that are English as there is not a large variety of magazines and novels available in Welsh.
A compare and contrast essay is the way of comparing the differences and the ways they are similar with two or more things. This method of writing is well known and used especially on a college and high school level. Writing a Compare and Contrast Essay you have to really know about your characters or places you are trying write or tell about. You can’t just write about anything either it has to relate with each other that is the whole point of the contrast part. For example, a good topic for a compare and contrast essay would be comparing/ contrasting two towns or talking your parents.
He felt unworthy of ever earning his salvation and in the end he appears to have found the
The first reason why viewers and consumers should consider that these two ads are equally affective in reaching their audience is because both ads used appropriate colors for the product being advertised. For example, in the Head and Shoulders ad various blues are used for the color of the background and the large text that is centered towards the bottom of the ad, which in all takes up the majority of the ad. The comparable ad, Pantene Pro-V shampoo, has a background color of white, while black and gold are used for the text along with other features of the ad. In both the Head & Shoulders ad and Pantene Pro-V ad, the background colors take up a majority of the ads. The color use of blue for the background of the Head & Shoulders ad is effective
Finally, the overlying theme of this story is suffering. When God and Satan discussed the devotion that Job had to God, Satan believed that through suffering, Job would deter from his devotion and would become blasphemous to God. This story portrayed Job’s spiritual devotion to the Lord even though suffering encompassed him. By having faith in his God, Job was able to overcome the challenges that Satan placed in front of him and was, in turn, rewarded with praises from God for his
YHWH has good and righteous people suffer so he can test them. If people remain faithful to YHWH during difficult times, then He rewards them. People should not question YHWH during these times because He has a plan and they will be rewarded. When Job’s wife and friends tell him to abandon YHWH, he does not listen. Many Christians find comfort in this lesson; however, this book is problematic.