Rejection essays

Rejection essays The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears. I think everyone in this world...has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime guilt-and there is the story of mankind(270). This is Lees interpretation of what he feels about rejection and the result of it. As he says this, he says it plain and clear that it is the chronicle of mankind. In the story of East of Eden, by John Steinbeck, three families face conflicting events of rejection amongst each other. In Cathys family, or relationship with Mr. Edwards, they share a secret love that soon becomes a tragic mess. Then theres the Trask family, a content group of people with one family member feeing like he is not loved at all by his father. Last but not least, Adam Trasks family, a very similar situation, where Adams son Caleb feels less loved than his brother, Aron. Steinbeck utilizes Mr. Edwards, Charles and Cal to show how rejection of love causes anger in all of humankind. Throughout The East of Eden, Steinbeck exhibits the numerous disgraceful rejections of love that the characters face which will eventually result into anger. In the beginning Charles was the first to be rejected, this occurred on Cyruss birthday. I bought him a knife made in Germany-three blades and a corkscrew, pearl-handled. Wheres that knife? Do you ever see him use it...Ive never ever seen him hone it... what did he do with it? And thats the last I heard of a pearl-handled German knife that costs six bits.(29) Charles is very deeply hurt that Cyrus did not cherish his gift as much as he did to Adams gift, a puppy. Cyrus just plainly looked at the knife, and said thank you, and then tucked it away in his desk without even sign of wanting the knife. This scene of refusal really mak...