Movement Means Living

“There is hope in movement. Motion means life.” -Elli pg. 186

To me, this means when you’re moving it shows you’re living. It can be just simply breathing, it’s still moving your body. It’s like your body is telling you it’s still alive. Even when people say they feel dead or say they are dying, you aren’t dead until everything in your body stops working. If someone is wounded badly, people tell them to keep their eyes open or to try and stand up so it keeps your body moving and alive. Also, you have to hope that movement will keep you alive in hard times you are having.

The movie Soul Surfer connects with this quote because when the girl Bethany Hamilton was surfing and got her arm bitten off by a shark, she could have easily died. Her friends were making sure she kept her eyes open until they got to the hospital. Even blinking shows that you are still alive because its movement and Bethany wouldn’t fall to sleep and be unconscious. They had to hope it would last Bethany until they got her to the hospital. Bethany did survive because she kept her eyes open the whole way to the hospital. If she would have closed to her eyes and went unconscious, she had a huge chance on not making it. In my book I’m reading, I Have Lived For a Thousand Years, Elli made her mom keep walking and to make sure if she was sitting to sit upright and not slouch down. She knew her mom was close to dying but she did everything she could to make sure her mom was okay and her mom is doing a little bit better than before. Any movement on the body will help keep the body living. The lessons from the movie and presented in the quote connects with our unit on the Holocaust because all of the Jews were constantly going from place to place, always working, and never had much rest, water, food, or space. The Jews were definitely tired from always moving. They got weaker and weaker every day. But in my book, Elli was talking about how some Jews knew that if they were able to still move, they were able to persevere and keep going because they knew they couldn’t stop. Perseverance is important because it helps people achieve goals. With the Jews, it helped them to push themselves to keep on working and stay alive until the war was over because they knew if they survived until the war was over, they’d be saved. Is perseverance important to you? Why?