Horace Quote Analysis

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Craveiro 1 Sophea Craveiro Mrs.Bloom English 11 Honors 13th May 2024 Final Essay Without failure you could never succeed. If everything were to go right in your life, you wouldn't know how to truly struggle and work towards what you want and when you get to that mountaintop you won't know the worth of your successes. In the quote “Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant” (Horace). Horace articulates in one sentence how struggle makes you better, either in character or skill, without it you'd never reach full potential. I've had to face challenges in my life and had to overcome them, and through those trials I've come out of them more prepared in the end. Drawing from fiction in …show more content…
Right now I have a record high (for me) B in math when the last few years on my best days I could only manage a low C. After taking Algebra online during quarantine I didn't absorb any of the information from the class that's supposed to set up all of your high school math courses. Through geometry, algebra II, and even the beginning of my current college prep class, I was finishing quarters with Ds, barely getting the credit for the class. But last November I began tutoring to re-learn the basic information I skipped in middle school and now I'm able to understand each unit and grasp them myself. This is perfectly shown in the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott …show more content…
Some may argue that in this pursuit Gatsby lost himself to a false reality and he shouldn't have had to re-craft his life for the love of a girl who was already taken. I agree on some level because his obsession with her went too far but in the end this is a story and one set in the 20s where women did have to rely on men to provide. A girl who grew up dripping in anything she wanted wouldn't leave that comfort for someone with a risky, unknown future. She knew she needed a rich man and back when Gatsby wasn't she couldn't be his, but now that he's ready to be the husband she needs and is still the man she loved, she risked a lot for him. While the romance ends in tragedy, without Gatsby losing and working towards what he wanted, he wouldn’t have experienced this lavish world and wouldn't have advanced as much as he did. There's something that pushes each of us towards our goals. There's a reason behind why you want to be a doctor, CEO, parent, run a race, or learn a certain skill. Usually someone doubts you or you lose something, and without those bumps in our pathways we wouldn't be introduced to a new thing to
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