The Importance Of Identity In Everyday By David Leviathan
Everyone carries a unique identity, whether they know it or not. Every identity is special and unique from someone else's. Identity cannot be specified as bad or good because it is simply an identity. No matter the circumstances, whether you are gay, a murder, or straight, we all have an identity. People get so caught up on the actions people do and labels those who do bad as “ no bodies “. This is completely irrelevant because, like I said , everyone carries an Identity. In the novel “ Everyday” by David Leviathan, there is a character who struggles so hard with an identity that assumption begin rising saying that the character might not even have an identity. The main character is A and he's not your typical character, he's more like a
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A can’t love anyone because if he does, he will end up changing the world and others life. This goes back to history. Without history, identity is impossible to form. In the book he states, “ This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love to sit across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible, And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be. ( Leviathan, 175)” A knows that falling in love is dangerous because of the unexplainable future. If he decides to fall in love, he will fall in a rupture of loneliness and although he is already lonely he will become something less than what he already is. The fact that A can’t love shows that he has no identity. Many may disagree, but love makes up identity. Loving someone can teach, expand who you are. Weather it is family or a partner, having love shapes who you are in a way that nothing else can. It expresses your true emotions as well as it gives you new outlooks and motives. When individuals gain positive aspects such as love, we term this as self-expansion. Self expansion can be described as relationships that open up new paths for you. As you interact with roommates, close friends, and relationship partners in college, you will probably start to notice small parts of yourself changing to become a little more like them and vice versa. For example, you may have a roommate that likes sports but you don't but overtime he influences you to watch it and then you begin to start becoming more like him. In the article, “ Love and Acceptance as Part of the Search for Identity and Purpose,” the author, Sherry McClurkin, she states,” As the ugly duckling learned, we find pure and true love and acceptance as well as identity and purpose through
A can’t love anyone because if he does, he will end up changing the world and others life. This goes back to history. Without history, identity is impossible to form. In the book he states, “ This is what love does: It makes you want to rewrite the world. It makes you want to choose the characters build the scenery, guide the plot. The person you love to sit across from you, and you want to do everything in your power to make it possible, endlessly possible, And when it’s just the two of you, alone in a room, you can pretend that this is how it is, this is how it will be. ( Leviathan, 175)” A knows that falling in love is dangerous because of the unexplainable future. If he decides to fall in love, he will fall in a rupture of loneliness and although he is already lonely he will become something less than what he already is. The fact that A can’t love shows that he has no identity. Many may disagree, but love makes up identity. Loving someone can teach, expand who you are. Weather it is family or a partner, having love shapes who you are in a way that nothing else can. It expresses your true emotions as well as it gives you new outlooks and motives. When individuals gain positive aspects such as love, we term this as self-expansion. Self expansion can be described as relationships that open up new paths for you. As you interact with roommates, close friends, and relationship partners in college, you will probably start to notice small parts of yourself changing to become a little more like them and vice versa. For example, you may have a roommate that likes sports but you don't but overtime he influences you to watch it and then you begin to start becoming more like him. In the article, “ Love and Acceptance as Part of the Search for Identity and Purpose,” the author, Sherry McClurkin, she states,” As the ugly duckling learned, we find pure and true love and acceptance as well as identity and purpose through