No Man Is An Island

This is for an English Response Paper, buit it goes kind of well with what I said earlier.

The writer of the essay, No Man Is An Island was trying to make several points, the central point being that no man can really stand alone and call himself apart from the world. Any new life that comes into the world, comes in to join us all, any death that takes place is an affliction to us all.

Despite the fact that the writer uses very eurocentric language to make this point and much of the essay is filled with points that one would have to know a slight bit of Catholic doctorine to get, this is a very good essay none the less. From the time that we are first born we live in a world full of people, no matter how far away they are.

It's kind of like that Six Degress of Seperation theory where they say that every person in the world is connected by no more than six people. John Donne in turn goes on to say that every human is like a book translated by God, and that there will come a day when God binds us all up and brings us to the big library (which by library he means Heaven) and all books will be open for the world to see.

Donne also talks about how when the bell of a church rings its not just for the preist, but its for all of the people to know. So he allures to the fact that when someone dies, its like a bell ringing, and when someone is born it is also like a bell ringing. When one hears that bell that person shouldn't wonder who the bell rings for, they should acknowledge that no matter who it has rung for it still affects them.

He goes on to explain that man maybe sick somewhere, and when a person is told of this sickness it could seem far from home. At the same time that second person could have another sickness that doesn't lie in his body, but is greed eating away at him. By seeing the first man's sickness the second man could see that his own greedy ways are hurting him as well as the sick man. He can see that he doesn't stand alone no matter how much he might think he does. He even learns that the rich, the poor and all others are part of the same figuritive human contenient.

When one part of the body is weak the whole thing will be weak and that's the point I think Donne was trying to make with this essay.

Many times people say that they are alone or that they feel like they don't have anyone there for them, but its really not true, because if it were they wouldn't be standing. No man, woman or child can stand alone, they need support from others and the only reason for that is because man is a social being. We can tell that from the advent of life, that the way we play and work, the relationships we build and the friends we make become a very important part of us. Granted you should be able to be your own person, but being your own person doesn't mean severing your tie to the main land. And its almost impossible to sever a tie that strong anyway.

If anyone here's seen the move About A Boy you know that the lessons we learn from being too insensitive and selfish can really change a person, even if it is just a movie. And lessons learned shouldn't be taken for granted.