The Stream of Life

This idea came to me as I was reading a symbolic book of Irony. It was almost as though I wanted to get to a Romantic world. This piece is just an idea of the Stream of Life. Please Leave Comments.

I walk down the lightening path
As kayaks run down the stream
The fish jump
And the snails inch their way across the stream floor

The water crashes up against the rocks
As the sticks slowly float down the stream
The leaves float down from their trees
To the ground they fall

The tree's leaves turn red and orange
as little of them are green
It's like the joy of a light
and the warmth of a fire

I walk down the narrow path
Trees surrounding
The rocks crackle as the leaves crunch beneath my feet
With every intent of stopping my journey to happiness

All of life flows
With life's end in the question
And so many living things
Rejoice that they are still alive

And I walk down the path
And sit on a rock
As I slowly take a dip
In the Stream of Life

Nietzsche's Quote in Fahrenheit 451

This piece is a response to the quote “What doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger.” These ideas flourish in my head as I write this piece. It makes me think of who I am. It also strongly relates the book Fahrenheit 451 which my Language Arts class is reading at the moment. This quote relates to life as we know it and strongly relates to the scene of the book. Its sole purpose is to relate to the heart and not the mind.

“What doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger.” These words are from Nietzsche. The quote really speaks to the book. It has a way of speaking to the scene very clearly. There is nothing like the pain of Montag. This portion of the novel speaks to this quote and reflects upon it. It is the awakening of a new life of Montag. It opens his soul to new options. New paths to take. There are so many ways to go, and so little time to choose.

Montag has gone into quick sand and was buried up to his neck and he slowly works his way out but is constantly being pushed back down. What Bradbury is trying to say here, is Montag isn’t dead, and his pain is making him mentally stronger, and physically bolder. His mind is running in so many different directions during the scene. He is in so many different places at once. He’s pulling himself out of the quick sand again but is likely going to be pushed back down by an unknown force yet far.

Montag isn’t dead. He has been close to it many times but he has slowly grown stronger throughout the book. He has gone closer to death by opening his mind, but farther away from insanity. His mind is strong than it ever has been and is constantly getting stronger. For this reason, he is fighting to stay alive because the government is going to eventually target him because he has the brainpower and the soul will to do anything. He has been close to death which has made him stronger. He has been through the worst and he has made it through. He now knows that since he made it through those rough times, he can make it through anything.
This quote is strong and can relate to "Plato’s Allegory of the Cave." People in this world don’t accept change and don’t want change. Montag has broken free from his chains and his finally seeing the light and is going back into the cave to tell everybody else that there is more to life than what it seems. The people do not want change and now Montag is in a run for his life. He is dodging bullets left and right and is trying to get to a place where protection is key. He is running away from fear. In the book, the helicopter is trying to find him and hunt him down. The helicopter represents fear. It is trying to kill him but it hasn’t. That goes back to the quote. The helicopter by not killing him, is just making him stronger.

What Nietzsche is trying to say is in order to succeed in life, you need some kind of pain. Pain is what makes us stronger as people. He’s trying to say that when you have pain, it’s making you stronger as a person because you have been through the worst. You know what it feels like and you know from experience what to do to get out of the mess. It makes you stronger as a person. Not only does it make your mind more awake and immune to the situation, it makes your makes you a better person at the soul.

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