Journeying Onwards:

An Essay on Walking on From the Good and Bad in Life

Jordan Crawford

Pine Point English 9

10/24/11

    In life there are many instances that require you to walk away from what you don’t like or from times that you do like. The main occurrences of journeying for me is doing work at school. “For Raisin in the Sun[‘s]” Beneatha, walking on was the idea of leaving to go to college, then Africa. Life may often throw obstacles at you that require you to stumble and ascend to a higher level, but it never tries to make you fall.
          (TS)In my life I’ve had to do a fair share of walking on, from, perhaps even to things that I’ve liked or disliked(asyn.), things that I liked almost as much as the Younger family from ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ did.(SD) School can often overwhelm a person, as Beneatha from ‘Raisin in the Sun’ and myself know from expiernce.(CM) There are times in my life when I have so much school work that I am overcome with frustration and received a poor grade, very much like how Beneatha becomes angry when she learned she couldn’t go to college, couldn’t go to Africa, and at first couldn’t go to the new house.(Anaphora) (CM)On another academic note, cross country requires me to ‘walk on’ quite literally as I have to overcome the objects in the path while am running a meet, a strategy that also works with life as well.(SD) Moving away from a bad grade can be good, but at times ‘walking on’ can be very saddening (antithesis). (CM)One example would be when I was moving to the house I am in now, because I also had to continue my journey in an unfamiliar place.(CM) This was a throat aching experience and was a particularly hard time to ‘walk on’ for me as I had to rebuild my knowledge of my house. (CS)So far in my short life I have done a lot of walking, and probably have a ton of mileage, but it has all helped shape who I am today.   
    (TS)Some people today have problems agreeing with their siblings, but Walter and Beneatha take this to a whole new level and won’t leave each other alone and grow past their childish rivalries.(SD)The song ,‘Walk On’, by U2 tells you to love people and never stop doing so, a goal Beneatha and Walter have trouble with.(CM) Near the end of ‘ A Raisin in the Sun’ Beneatha’s fragile ‘glass heart’ cracks and she wants to leave Walter because she can’t forgive him for stopping her dream.(CM) Mama tells her that she cannot ‘turn back’ and she must ‘walk on’ to forget, forgive, mainly love, her brother Walter(asyn.)(SD) In many ways Beneatha had a glass heart but not always. (CM)In many cases she shunned her brother and had a steel heart.(CM) In many scenarios she had to be reminded that she had to love her sibling no matter what.(Anaphora)(TS) Though the siblings fire instantaneously at each other in the end they chose to walk away from there troubles together.  
    On the whole moving forward can be a great, and though it may not seem like it at first it usually always helps you in the outcome. Forgetting homework or getting a poor grade helps me learn from my mistakes so I don’t make the same ones again. Beneatha doesn't ‘walk on’ to Africa but walks closer to her brother. Overall, real-time and literature can both focus on the same thing, and in this case, that is ‘walk[ing] on’.
    Self Assessment
1. I am continuing to work on placement of commas.
2. I think my asyndetons are strong and well written.
3. I think that one of my weak points would be my antithesis because I have trouble putting them in a sentence.
4. I would give myself a B
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