《Lesson Eleven》.ppt

Lesson ElevenBeauty About the author Hunting for Hope is a blend of beautiful, poetic language, overshadowed by a tragic sadness, a deep sense of regret. All of this is rimmed in words of hope, which by the end of the book seem somehow bittersweet. Sanders begins searching the earth for some hints of hope to prove to himself and to his son that despair has not swallowed every aspect of our society. In his quest for hope, Sanders comes upon several ideas basked in memory and the appealing light of promise. Sanders presents words such as wildness, fidelity, family, skill, simplicity, and beauty in their true forms. Before his book, these words rang too rarely in our ears as pure context. Instead, they were the slogans of advertisements and other monetary based situations. For the first time, Sanders presents these ideas in solid and clear text, for students to see with awe and to be inspired into a hopeful future. These images draw on our humanity, our identities, our past, present, and future as individuals, cultures, and as an entire world. There were moments when Sanders’ words soared to the very height of expression, wading into flowing poetics and prose. The idea that someone can find hope in through memory and ancient archetypal images is revealing. Sanders encourages us to live our lives in a present hope, not in a glorious future or in a far gone past. If a person lives his life and places his hope in the past, then he runs the risk of living with dead men. He should be living in the realm of the present and ever unfolding future. If a man is to live in hope, he must see his life as a thing to be lived whole-heartedly, unafraid, and not stained by shadows of suspicion and doubt. While Sanders draws readers into the story, the idea is always tainted with a note of tragedy and sadness, of grief over something irreplaceably lost. While Sanders speaks of hope, there is nonetheless a tone of despair to his words. We live in a darkened world, where the shadows han