Anne Frank, Nelson Mandela And Louis Zamperini - 1346 Words

After reading many stories about people being incarcerated by their environments, you would think they would just accept it or give up. Shockingly in many of the stories I’ve read the exact opposite happens and they fight through these tough situations and always manage to stay positive no matter what is thrown at them. Anne Frank, Nelson Mandela and Louis Zamperini are perfect examples of people who were physically and emotionally incarcerated and they never let it bring them down. Instead, they used their incarceration as motivation to better the situation they were in. Reading many of the poems in class really gives you a sense of how a person is feeling in such little words. It describes the environment around them, how they are dealing with is and what their thoughts are on it. A poem I feel does incredibly well with this this â€Å"Some Advice to Those Who Will Serve Time in Prison†. This poem describes a man in prison with a lot of time to serve and how he feels about it. He describes prison as making him start to lose himself and how much it really affects his outlook on life. Prison makes him feel powerless and like he has no control of his life because he can’t make decisions for himself anymore. He can’t control when he eats, showers or even when he wakes up in the morning, basically the only thing he can control is how he deals with this new way of life. He says â€Å"[p]art of you may live alone inside, / like a stone at the bottom of a well† (Judith Tannenbaum, 19). ThisShow MoreRelatedEssay About My Mother129 3 Words   |  6 Pagesfascinated by great scientists and innovators like Franklin, Einstein, and Edison. Their understanding of science co-existed with their religious beliefs. The writings of Anne Frank or Helen Keller have caused me many days of reflection and soul searching. The stories of survivorship and suffering by Nelson Mandela, Louie Zamperini and Viktor Frankl were simply life changing. The strength of their character, the consistency of their values, and their unbending morality in the harshest of conditions