Joseph Jones Professor Ditch English 115 ( 2 April 2018 Route to all Happiness J Being happy comes in different various ways , such as someone boosting you confidence . spending time with family and friends or just taking action in life , so therefore/you can be happy in general. In the novel The Guernsey Literary Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer & ‘Annie Barrows the two main characters ofthe novel are Juliet and Mark. Juliet deals with confusion such as making a decision depending on her relationship status. As for Mark he struggles finding happiness and deals with anger throughout the novel all because things didn't go the way he wanted it too. It seems these two have a lot of miscommunication, Juliet is a journalist from london , she was living in london during WWII so she already had a lot going on with her life, Juliet loves her job as a journalist and takes it very seriously, While Mark is pretty ‘wealthy and financially stable , but mark came acrosé juliet and tries to get the full attention , and attempts to accomplish his goal as having juliet as his wife , but it would take more than just asking for dinners o get what he wants, Juliet and Mark are both struggling fo fing happiness but (é juliet deals with more so with confusion around her true eum 7 with Bis yy 3 struggles with gaining Juliet's attention and trust, ) Vs Al K i LL \e —Inaddition., two characters from the novel Fchose% ‘was Mark and i we the war was going on people from the Guernsey island would write her letters and that inspired her a lot ew kind of gave her more motivation to keep up her good work, Juliet had a lot of happiness brought en “tto her life by the letters she was receiving , so she took action and kept going on with her work f ( a joumalist. Now as for mark he's a publisher fiom Americ, but visited London to inguir abou) (4 it the british writers for his New York publishing home. Q Equally , Mar resto catch Juliet tention by asking her to dinner she agrees, but she n? soon figures out what Mark is trying to accomplish here, so Juliet kind of loses interest in him because she doesn’t want to be anyones trophy wife and she knows Mark is already rich , so from her views she thinks he just wants to capture her as his wife so that he can complete oh everything because he already rich. Mark decides to ask Juliet to marry him but Juliet tums \ v Ww down his proposal , Mark feels very unwanted and is very shocked that he was tumed down x like that. From article “ Source of Happiness” ( Lama 27) it states “ If our wants and desires e si ve Nh unchecked , sooner or later we will run up against something that we want but cant have. J Y The second and more reliable method is not to have what we want but rather to want and Ni \" \ ye ‘hat we have”. Basically we can’t be ungrateful when things don’t go our way. Reasons why we can’t be ungrateful because you may never know what could happen , Things ui n may be too fast forthe both of you and may need some time to think over things and maybe come back around again and may go the way you want i too, Furthermore , when growing up Juliet was a orphan child atthe ag of 12. She already has f\ MN A that mentality that no one wanted her , so she doesn’t need anyone to please her because she X W already has herself. Throughout the novel juliet goes through changes , such as being with mark \* and not being with him. I would say she’s more of unhappy because she’s confused. She doesn’t YS ye (want tobe anyone's wife, because she's so independent. Juliet has goals in life with being _/ { iy‘ successful joumalist and I think t doesn’t want to ruin that, that's why she denied marks W) yproposal. Being confused isn’t good because it doesn’t bring you happiness so juliet needs to, A think about it and take action with everything going on. In article “From Nicomachean Ethics” a { (Aristotle 82) it states “Happiness , the, is something complete and self-sufficient , and is the end § of action”. Throughout all the choices Juliet has , atthe end of the day she has to take action with her own life and decisions as a adult, Gl (niga, For Mark it seems that he struggles to get what he wants out of Juliet. Mark goes on suffering from the inside and only he can feel those emotions running through his mind and doesn’t really know what to do, With these emotions going on he tend to move very quickly with Juliet and that kind of ruins everything for him because Juliet isn’t really trying to move so fast with Mark because she doesn’t want to feel like she dedicated to him \ every point she sees him. Even though Mark is really in love with her he has to take things slow. ‘ ; J x Another example for when Mark is moving too fast he asks for Juliet’s hand and asked her to marry him but she turns down his marriage proposal and that kind of sparked everything such a NY Sy him as suffering from what had happened with the proposal. From article * The Alchemy of| Suffering” (Ricard 39) it states “ unhappiness has causes that can be identified and acted upon. tN is only when we misidentify the nature of those causes that we come to doubt the possibility of healing”. Even though you may be suffering , there's a possible chance that things can be “ ok” ij i a the end for you. s 7? Ly manger, Juliet seems to be more independent because at the end ofthe day she " more worried about herself and her career she has a successful joualist. Even though she { {i 4 committed to her journalism she was also interested at one point to give mark what he wanted. f(s y So it was a point where she wanted and liked the attention from Mark but she soon switched it up ft weand kind of through everything off with Mark. Mark kind of had his hopes up with Juliet and ¢ wt ‘was hoping things would be good between cach other and he was also confused about what wad \ Nl) going on with juliet. From the source“ Confusion of Tongues Between Adult and Child” by Sandor Ferenczi she states ~ The setting free of his her feelings the willingness on our part to admit the mistakes and honest to endeavor to avoid in the future” Ferenczi argument is trying to ‘explain to us that being honest is best instead of leading on others because it ean cause a lot of. nN miscommunication between each other. AS far it goes with Mark Reynolds , himself has to keep his composure towands his anget + it's not smart to show anger towards a significant ther only because it can cause the other 0 lose interest in you very quick and easy. Most females are going to play hand to get ance you Y ‘meet them and mark was moving too fest with Juliet and it doesn't seem like he seen that he was. a) going to fas with everything and he became very unhappy about the whole situation, From 79 Source™ Work , Happiness . and Unhappiness” by Taylor and Francis trom the article it states " ) ; y broad happiness is differences in terms in personality gender. and other attributes can be partly \ % accounted for through the operations of “values” which provides the bass for prioritizing for \ features over others”. Everyone bas a value and you don't want to ruin that value by expressing " the wrong feelings or intentions. In the long run , things finally come together with Mark and Juliet come to a conclusion. that they want tobe with each other. lit took was forthe two to give time to each other and think about the decision that had to make up. In my opinion I don’t think Mark was ever going to * " give up on Juliet that how dedicated he was to her. He loved everything about her and as for v Juliet she couldn’t really see what she liked about Mark but she soon seen that he was reallythere f i ere fr her forthe times she needed someone he was therefor her and they slowly fell in love together. It i ieni 1g take times for significant others to come to agreement because it always that one that sives in, Generally speaking , being unhappy can be fixed by just taking steps in lie, ‘Those steps are either talking to someone about being unhappy , reading books on steps on how tobe happy. Certain people take action with ther ives by doing things that pu them ina good / ‘mood such as taking a vacation and spending some alone time , maybe even taking classes on Ay \p why your so unhappy. Those examples can help get back to your happy ways. Being happy can help inthe long. Tun as you get older. It can possibly help change your ‘personality , even help you WV bbe better in a better work space. A lot of individuals may look to be happy on the outside but Mf some may be suffering on the inside and a lot of people hide that. Most people hide those \ \) emotions because they don’t know how people would think of them , and if people think othe 1 rf Cy ‘whether you want to make change in your life o just simply sit there and suffer the unhealthy Nea “0 individual by spilling their real feelings about themselves. It your own happiness in your life. With being unhappy in life can lead to things thats you don't want yourself, all these emotions building up inside can really cause you to do things you really ‘wouldn't originally do. It's to release those emotions to someone who really cares about you or professional who knows how to manage and guide you through all the pain you've been suffering. Me personally i love to spend time with my friends and family to get my mind off of all the stress tha’s going on in my life. I feel like it the only healthy way to release those emotions or simply just forget about those unhappy thoughts and try to turn those into positive 7 Bsthoughts. It took sometime for Juliet and Mark to realize what they want but they made their decisions on what they want in life,Jones 7 ‘yl aa 1002-1003, andor. i a ai and Cutler Howard “ The sour ness”‘cares marsere tone