What does it mean to be human is the prompt for this paper, and my answer is that to be human is to err. To make mistakes, get over them, and improve the course of your life for the better. Acknowledge that life sometimes doesn′t go the way we plan it, but what proves our strength is adapting and overcoming everything life throws at us. Provide quotes from Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (particularly discuss how the main character Janie overcomes her struggles and society′s expectations of her and eventually finds her own purpose and accomplishment) , East of Eden by John Steinbeck (some commentary on how it can seem hard to avoid repeating history throughout generations of a family and the struggle of the characters to find independence and their own voice), The Handmaid′s Tale by Margaret Atwood (ability to adapt to sudden and drastic change), Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky (Bantam Classics version, discuss how Raskolnikov deals with the world around him and his selective sympathy) , and maybe a few from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte if applicable.
