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Sample Essay - Score of 6

Everyone goes through their lives seeing and experiencing different things. At times, these different

situations may cause one to act differently than another would in the same situation. It can be readily

stated that “Ease does not challenge us; adversity helps us discover who we are.” Through literature,

one can see how this statement proves to be true.

In the play, “The Enemy of the People”, by Henrik Ibsen, the protagonist, Dr. Stockholm, faced

adversity, and through that, was able to discover his true beliefs and who he was. Before Dr.

Stockholm was put in a situation where he had to face adversity, he had lived his life with mild ease

and regularity. He acted just like everyone else in the town he lived in. Years later, he discovered that

the popular bath houses was infected with bacteria. Determined to spread his findings, Dr. Stockholm

went to the newspaper and the local governing office to try and make his discovery known. However,

both the paper and the government weren’t as inspired to really let the public know about this serious

problem due to the popularity of the bath houses. As a result, Dr. Stockholm was forced to face

adversity and find a way to achieve his previously set goal. Through adversity, Stockholm was able to

truely see how his personality was. He was able to understand his severe discontent with the

government and society as a whole. In essence, Stockholm was able to discover his actual self. This,

however, only happened when he was faced with a challenge.

The book, “Where the Heart is” by Billie Letts also used adversity to portray it’s characters true being.

The protagonist, Novalee Nation, was placed in a situation where she had to realize and conquer

adversity. Novalee was a young girl of 17, who was pregnant. She had experienced extreme hardship

her whole life in the trailer park environment that she had previously resided in. She also received lots

of abuse from her boyfriend who impregnated her. In the story, he had left her stranded in a K-Mart

all by herself, while she was pregnant. All alone, Novalle had to find a way to keep herself and her baby

alive. Along the way, through adversity, Novalle found her true, kind self. She also made countless

discoveries through meeting different people. Among those things was her true love for photography

and literature, and most of all her yearning for love in her life.

In the face of adversity, we all act differently. We each have different ideas and methods that we are

accustomed to use for different situations. By acting and making decisions on our own, as we are often

times forced to do when given a challenge, we are able to find out who we truely are and what we

truely believe in. The characters Dr. Stockholm and Novalee Nation are examples of that kind of people

in literature. However, in literature and life, it is all the same. Ease does not challenge us; adversity

helps us discover who we are.