Often times humans find themselves warped in their own thinking. The thinking that drives actions.Wants and needs encourage actions. There are so many decisions and actions happening everyday for a number of reasons. Humans all have needs and wants. These are what encourage or discourage the many actions that different kinds of people take each day around the world.
In the short story, “I Came, I Saw, I Shopped,” the author talks about everyone wanting to be number one all the time. People everywhere have to be better than the next person that come along. Trying to be the best comes from a want. People do not need to be ahead of everyone else but they want to be. It is not a need but a want. Different items come out all the time that one might want. “ It was a must-have item just last year” (Unknown 366). Society wants to be on the top of the newest and latest trends so they buy what they want hoping to fill the void.
When there is a need that has to be met, one will do anything to get it done. That is what Jonathan did in “Civil Peace.” He knew that if he did not hide his bike it would be taken from him and he would never see it again. “ Hard as it`s loss would have been to him he would still have let it go without a thought had he not had some doubts about the genuineness of the …show more content…
He was not thinking about anything but what he wanted. This persuaded him to the most unthinkable decisions. One day his life wish was granted and everything he touched was turned to gold just like he wanted. The king realized what all his wants had done to him when his daughter turned to gold. “Her sweet, rosy face, so full of affection as it had been, assumed a glittering yellow color, with yellow teardrops congealing on her cheeks” ( Hawthorne 452). Everything that the king saw daily was changed before his very eyes. His daughter who he saw every day was no gold due to his
In the short story, “I Came, I Saw, I Shopped,” the author talks about everyone wanting to be number one all the time. People everywhere have to be better than the next person that come along. Trying to be the best comes from a want. People do not need to be ahead of everyone else but they want to be. It is not a need but a want. Different items come out all the time that one might want. “ It was a must-have item just last year” (Unknown 366). Society wants to be on the top of the newest and latest trends so they buy what they want hoping to fill the void.
When there is a need that has to be met, one will do anything to get it done. That is what Jonathan did in “Civil Peace.” He knew that if he did not hide his bike it would be taken from him and he would never see it again. “ Hard as it`s loss would have been to him he would still have let it go without a thought had he not had some doubts about the genuineness of the …show more content…
He was not thinking about anything but what he wanted. This persuaded him to the most unthinkable decisions. One day his life wish was granted and everything he touched was turned to gold just like he wanted. The king realized what all his wants had done to him when his daughter turned to gold. “Her sweet, rosy face, so full of affection as it had been, assumed a glittering yellow color, with yellow teardrops congealing on her cheeks” ( Hawthorne 452). Everything that the king saw daily was changed before his very eyes. His daughter who he saw every day was no gold due to his