Odyssey Epic Poem
Description: Was an essay for English 1 class, written about a hero I had researched on.
He was born on October 10 at a village named Konohagakure. He is the son of the Fourth Hokage(Hokage means Fire Shadow) named Minato Namikaze. Naruto is an orphan when his parents were killed by a Nine-Tail Fox when Minato was sealing the Nine-Tailed Fox inside Naruto’s body. When he grew up, he never knew his parents name and the Third Hokage gave Naruto his mother’s last name because he thinks it would be bad that the villagers knew that he was the Fourth Hokage’s son. But Minato told some villagers to honor Naruto for saving everyone from the Nine-Tailed Fox so everyone was afraid that he is a dangerous kid with the most dangerous beast inside his body that is called a Jinchuriki.(Jinchuriki means Power of Human Sacrifice when they have the beast inside a body) From where they’re from, they need to train to fight to pass the exams. One of the exams was like a writing test when all the problems are difficult and they won’t understand. When the teacher comes in, he would say something that if you don’t pass this test then you will not be able to take the test again and if you pass this test you will be moving on. By then, the students who thinks they didn’t pass has left the class and the people who stayed stayed in class just passed because the teacher says that it doesn’t matter how hard you try, you need to keep thinking you can do your best. This is when they spread into groups, and his team leader is Kakashi Hatake with two members named Sakura Haruno, and his rival named Sasuke Uchiha. Kakashi was chosen to be with Naruto is because Kakashi was Minato’s team, so that means he needs to take care of the Nine-Tailed Fox. When Naruto and Sasuke were kids, almost every girl liked Sasuke and Naruto wanted the popularity so he tried to beat Sasuke in a Traditional Spar. By the time the teacher in the academy said Start, Sasuke was on top of Naruto leaving him defenseless on the ground with his fist ready to punch him. Naruto is an energetic and a positive kid when he tries to reach his dreams. He is also a promise keeping person like that one day when the Fifth Hokage told him that he can’t learn a move called “Rasengan”(Rasengan means Spiralling Sphere) in one week. At that moment when he started training to make the rasengan prove her wrong in one week, he made a rasengan with a clone converting energy into a sphere when he was in a battle with enemies. The reason why she said he couldn’t do it is because the move was an A-ranked move when he still didn’t pass the chuunin exams (low rank exam) and the other reason why he could use it is because his father is the creator of the Rasengan.
One of his heroic acts was when he fought an enemy who summons 6 people to go destroy Konohagakure and he had to go against them all to protect the village. When he finished talking to the enemy who was also his teacher named Jiraiya, he told him he was talking about him(named Nagato) in Jiraiya’s book. He talked about how he was the hero in his book and by the time Nagato realized Naruto was the hero to create peace to the world because Naruto made a promise to him, Nagato stopped destroying Konohagakure the whole village called him “The Hero of the Leaf”.
What challenges that Naruto faced on the road of heroism is that he had to control the Jinchuriki inside him when there is going to be a war that a person tries to steal the Jinchuriki for power, and that’s when he actually needs to fight the Jinchuriki himself to get the power from the beast inside him.
The impact that naruto gave to Konohagakure was saving their village and his dream is actually trying to be the next Hokage. So by the time he keeps saving the village, he is like one step closer to being Hokage.
Living as a Transcendentalist
Description: Was an essay for English 3 class, written about giving up 3 things for 1-2 weeks.
A good life of living is a way to you want to have in the future and how your life is going to be like. While others have different ideas about the good life, I believe it involves a love for nature like Thoreau, a "luxurious" life when one is merited for their labor, and a life with your loved ones or your significant other. Nature is all around us; respect and love for all that is around us is a very decisive way to live a good life. While a love for nature is important, materialistic and superficial things can be just as necessary to the good life. Lastly, one could not possibly live a good life without being with loved friends or family.
Transcendentalism is any system of philosophy that holds a key to nature of reality lies. In my opinion, living like a transcendentalist is an interesting way to live because you are enjoying nature, having more freedom from working, and having yourself to survive. In 1849, Thoreau once said,“If there were a wall of stone between me and my townsmen, there was still a more difficult one to climb or break through before they could get to be as free as I was.” While Thoreau was thinking that when he was in prison, he wanted freedom. He wanted to let the towns people to know how he is like. He wants everyone to do what he is doing, going out to nature, explore the world, freedom. This quote reminds me of Christopher McCandless from “Into The Wild” because Christopher was trying to earn money to go to Alaska to allow him to feel “alive” doing anything he would desire. I tried being a transcendentalist for a week, I would have to say, that was like one of the most hardest times that I have ever done. Especially when we were in a society where we have many things to keep us distracted like Facebook, Ipods, games, and TV. My goal was to not play videogames for 1 hour, read more, and not trying to overeat. The reason why I thought this was the hardest task that I have ever done was because I was a gamer and I usually play for at least four to six hours hours and finish homework at the very end. In the end, I started to read a little more, finish homework first, and play videogames for about 1-2 hours a day. It actually changed my lifestyle a bit. I didn’t really regret it because I feel accomplished when I finish my homework first and I have all the freedom of doing anything.
Living a “luxurious” life is mainly a good life in many people’s head because you work for a couple of hours and earn money to buy delicious food, entertainment products, or any everyday use items. I think This is a great way to live because I personally love to eat delicious food instead going through all the work by planting and eating just beans like Thoreau or go hunting like Christopher in “Into The Wild”. It’s easy to earn for food and you would probably have leftover cash to buy something that can distract you till you are sleepy and work on the next day. Doing this routine day by day isn’t that bad. I won’t be starving, clean, and comfortable. It seems to be easier because it’s an easier way to travel and explore everything. You are able to understand nature and look at everything by money. So basically it’s like saying you are paying for your experiences.
Having family and friends is like a miracle in a good life because there are people who are going to be there for you and someone who is going to care about you. Working with family and friends allows you to be closer, keeping each other safe, and will always be there to cheer you up or when you were are needed for something. Showing expressions to each other allows you to bring themselves a closer relationship. When you have a closer relationship, you can rely on them, ask for help, anything that would keep themselves happy. I think it’s a really good thing because when you’re all depressed and there will always going to be a person there for you. If you have a significant other, it’s a little bit different because this person is your loved one, always there for you, kissing buddy, and there will always be a little chemistry between the couple. I feel like that it’s sort of like teamwork because the couples are usually having fun, being there for each other, loving, fun to laugh with, and treating each other equally. Here’s an example, a guy forgot to pay for the water bills that are due today and his wallet is left at his work, he can rely on his significant other to borrow some money and pay back by tomorrow. It was sort of a bad example but there are many feelings and expression you usually don’t feel from nature and luxurious things. It’s what people call “love” something that no one can explain it’s meaning. Feelings like waking up all warm right next right to them smiling at each other and acting all cute. I feel like it would be a really good life to have a significant other showing that they care about each other. It’s great to have people around you. In the movie “Into the Wild” , Christopher McCandless told himself in the book, “Happiness only real when shared”.
There are many ways to live a good life, these were just three examples that was used. There are many ways to life your life. You can do anything you want. If you want to feel free, be a transcendentalist, if you want to feel rich, try to earn that luxurious life, and if you want love, try to find a person who will be there for you. It shows that you can have both if you’d like, you can be rich and have a significant other, become a transcendentalist with a partner, but i’m sure you can’t be rich and a transcendentalist because transcendentalist believes on just nature even though Thoreau also used money to make his own shelter.I’m sure it’s because he needed shelter. But for what i’m saying is that everyone has to choose something in life because you can end up not knowing what to do and probably just do something that you do not desire.