Reflections on Adversity

 

 

Adversity

Through the class discussions, in my group discussions, and the novel “Warriors Don’t Cry” by Melba Pattillo Beals, I have come to accept an overall idea about how to define adversity. Adversity is the difficulties you have in your life. It has both good and bad sides; the good side is it makes the person who passes the adversity and challenge become stronger in life, and the bad side of adversity is if a person who meets adversity cannot pass it, then it will make that person become stressed and eventually give up.

In the novel I read, the main character, which is Melba, faces a lot of adversity through her life. The adversity of Melba started when she and nine other students went to Central High school to study. On her first day at school, when she and her mother came to school, there were a crown standing in front of the school. They came to stop Melba and the nine students from coming into the school. Melba and her mother were too afraid, so they went back home and were chased by a bunch of angry white people who threatened to kill Melba and her mother. The second adversity was when she was being bullied by other students. The students hated her because she was black. She was being called bad words, and being hit nearly every day. With her, almost every day at school was like being in hell and she just wanted to finish school as fast as she could. The third adversity overwhelmed Melba on her sixteen birthday. When she invited her friends to her sixteen birthday, her friends was afraid to go to her birthday party because they feared what was happening to Melba, they feared the danger of Melba being the center of the integration. Melba wished she could be only a normal girl. Once, because of the stress and the fight for integration, she wrote in the diary that she wished she could die. But finally, she overcame the adversity and became stronger in life.

Through the group discussions with other people who read different novels about adversity, I have more ideas about people who have experienced different adversity in their lives. The novel “Eleanor and Park” by Rainbow Rowell is a very romantic and a sad story about Eleanor and Park. Both of the characters Eleanor and Park have to face a lot of adversity. Eleanor had to face a lot of adversity, such as being bullied for race, poverty, hatred, and abandonment. Park has his own adversity with his sports-loving father and his younger brother, and he doesn’t know if his dad really accepts him. The novel “Touch the Top of the World” by Erik Weihenmayer, tells the story about Erik and the adversity that he faced. Erik was blind when he was 13. Because he was blind, he wasn’t able to get a job and felt excluded from “normal” people. He had to use the stick for the blind and use a trained dog to guide his way. But in the end, he overcome his adversity and became the first blind person to climb the highest mountain in the world, Mt. Everest.  Finally, in the novel “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime” by Mark Haddon, we learn about Christopher who has an extraordinary brain, who can remember every detailed thing. Christopher likes to investigate things. His adversity was related to his feelings, and his father lied to him that his mother died but the truth is she was still alive and living in London.

As you can see, adversity is the difficulties you have in your life. The authors through the novels prove that overcoming adversity is not impossible, but you need to be strong and never give up on yourself.

Appeal to Action

Do you love animals? Aren’t they adorable? But for some people, animals are just things for selling for people to make money. So today, I’m going to talk about animal abuse and how Christians and other people can help them.

Brutus, “Peace, freedom, and liberty!”

Part 1: Speech

“I am Brutus, A well-regarded Roman nobleman. It is an honor to talk with you today. This is an opportunity for me to tell you why I would be best leader to lead Rome to become even more prosperous.

“I have brought a lot of success to Rome and have made it more wonderful. I’m a senator so I know a lot of things about its government works. And I can see that the government is making people suffer and I want to change that. That is why I want to be Rome’s leader so that I can work with the other senators in order to solve this problem and bring equality back to every single Roman citizen! Many people have seen me as an honorable man; I will work as hard as possible to make each Roman citizen happy.

“I put Rome above everything, even my best friend, Caesar. I had no choice but to kill him because I saw that he was a person who would do anything for power. If Caesar were to reach to where he wants, he would turn his back on his people who helped him to get to where he was. Caesar was my best friend but he was dreaming about his ambition rather than caring for his people.  That is why I had to kill him; because it is the best for the people of Rome. I’m willing to die for Rome if Rome needs me to.

“I can see exactly what the government needs to change to help to people have a better standard of living and what is needed for Rome to be more developed. As you can see, my love for Rome is greater than anything else in the world, deeper than the deepest ocean. Nothing in the world can stop my love for Rome. You can reciprocate my love by vote for me as the leader Rome and I promise to you that I will not let you down.”

Part 2: Significant Quotes:

Act 1, scene 2, page 5: Brutus: “If it’s for the good of all Romans, I’d do it even if it meant my death. Let the gods give me good luck only as long as I love honor more than I fear death.” He is willing to die for the good of Rome and for the Roman people. A good leader thinks about his country and his people, and Brutus did a very good job of that.

 

Act 2, scene 1, page 2: Brutus: “Rulers abuse their power when they separate it from compassion. To be honest, I’ve never known Caesar to let his emotions get the better of his reason. But everyone knows that an ambitious young man uses humility to advance himself, but when he reaches the top, he turns his back on his supporters and reaches for the skies while scorning those who helped him get where he is.” Brutus saw that Caesar is dangerous when he gets too powerful. He will betray the people who supported and helped him to be more powerful, and Brutus will stop Caesar from doing that.

 

Act 3, scene 1, page 9: Brutus: “They are full of pity for Caesar. But a stronger pity, for the wrongs committed against Rome, drove out our pity for Caesar, as fire drives out fire, and so we killed him.” Brutus and the people that killed Caesar felt pity for him, but had a stronger pity for Rome. Rome was more important than Caesar.

 

Act 3, scene 2, page 2: Brutus: “With these words I leave. Just as I killed my best friend for the good of Rome, so will I kill myself when my country requires my death.” He killed his best friend for the good of Rome, and he would kill himself if Rome needed him dead. That showed that Rome is more important than his own life.

Act 3, scene 2, page 1: Brutus: “It’s not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”

 

Brutus cared for Rome the most; he would rather kill Caesar then let Rome fall.

 

Part 3: Explanation of Poster

 

In my poster, I decided to put red background represent as blood behind the phrase “Peace, freedom, and liberty!” and the sword in order to show that to make Rome better, Brutus has to kill Caesar, his best friend because he only care about power, not the good for the people of Rome. I have the image of a big heart to show that Brutus is very kind and friendly, He let his friend and his soldier sleep in his own tent with him. I chose to put the image of the city of Rome in his big heart to show his big love for Rome that never die for. Behind the image of Brutus, there is a picture of the dark forest, showing his dark future where he died in the battle in the forest.

Part 4: Attack Ads

Antony – See—I’ve sealed his fate with this mark next to his name. But, Lepidus, go to Caesar’s house. Bring his will here, and we’ll figure out a way to reduce his bequests to the people. By saying this, Antony showed that he had lied to the people of Rome about Caesar’s will. He asked Lepidus went to Caesar’s house to took the will and Antony will change it. Antony would be a terrible leader of Rome because he had lied to the people of Rome for his own benefit.

Caesar – “Caesar said to me, “Cassius, I dare you to jump into this rough water with me and swim to that point there.” As soon as he spoke, though I was fully dressed, I plunged in and called for him to follow. And he did. The water roared, and we fought against it with vigorous arms. And, thanks to our fierce competitiveness, we made progress. But before we reached the end point, Caesar cried, “Help me, Cassius, or I will sink!” And just as Aeneas, the hero who founded Rome, emerged from the fires of Troy with his elderly father Anchises on his shoulder, so I emerged from the Tiber carrying the tired Caesar.” Through the story that Cassius told to Brutus, I can see that Caesar is too arrogant when he challenges Cassius to swim to the other side of the river. Before they reached to the river, Caesar sink and he has to asked for help. Caesar is very arrogant; he thinks he is the God who can do everything. Caesar put himself above other people. And he would therefore be a weak leader of Rome.

Lepidus – “Lepidus is just like that. He has to be taught and trained and told to go forward. He’s an empty man, who pays attention to fashions and tastes that other men took up and got tired of long ago.” “He’s an unremarkable man, fit only to be sent on errands. Does it really make sense, once we divide the world into three parts, that he should be one of the three rulers?” Through Antony words, I can see that Lepidus does not have a virtue of a leader. He just fit only to be sent on errands and he doesn’t understand what he need in order to be a good leader. Lepidus only pays attention to fashion and tastes. Therefore, he could not carry out political work and he doesn’t know anything about leadership.

An academic writing: Final draft Poverty in India

 

Poverty in India

            In the movie “Hotel Rwanda”, the director showed how African people are considered disposable because of their skin color. In the book “Death of a Salesman”, Wily was considered disposable because he was old and he could not contribute to society. In the book “Of mice and Men”, Lennie and George were disposable in people’s eyes because they were poor and they worked as farmers which was despised by rich people at that time. What all of this people have in common is that they are being disposed by other people and the poor people in India are same.

The poor people in India are considered “disposable” in India. They don’t have proper shelters which leads to them being more likely to die when storms come. They have poor health care and old laws from 1947 which make poor people in India struggle more to live. This shows that poor people in India are considered disposable in Indian society. The poorest of the poor: a poverty appraisal of households affected by visceral leishmaniasis in Bihar shows that poor people in India are the ones who are affected by Visceral leishmanisis (a kind of disease). It was found that 83% of households with high VL infection rates belonged to the two lowest income brackets of Bihar. (M. Boelaert, et al 639). In addition, there may be more malnourished children then was previously thought. Older estimates do not account for all types of malnutrition (Sinha et al., 2009). Even the kids are in danger of being disposable. This shows that the government didn’t care about the poor people; only the rich people would have enough money to pay for the hospital but not poor people. That shows that the poor people are considered disposable because they don’t contribute to society. Although the poor health care in India is a problem, the law in India is an even bigger problem.

The law in India is a big problem for Indian people; especially the poor. In the India, Poverty and The Economist by Atanu Dey, she states that “It’s the rules and regulations that Indians in India labor under that is the primary cause of India’s lack of progress. These “license, control, permit, quota” rules and regulations originated in the British colonial era, which were made for the benefit of the British government and for the purposes of ruling a colonized people. Those did not change after 1947″(19). “The one factor that cannot be ruled out is systematic mismanagement of resources and large scale government malfeasance” (19). It is difficult for people, especially for poor, people in India to live with the law that was from 1947. She also stated that “India is poor because of government action/inaction” (19). We can see that the government creates the barriers that stop poor Indian people to find the way out of poverty. The old law is for the purpose of ruling a colonized so it had to be unfair, and it will try to exploit the Indian, especially poor people. The law not only make their life more difficult, but it also makes them more susceptible to death.

The mortality rate in India is a big number with thousands dying every year. In the Poverty and vulnerability to storms article, the author state that “In India, Cyclone Phailin in 2013 caused 38 deaths, a vast improvement from the 10,000 deaths resulting from a similar storm in 1999.  Poor people, especially in developing countries, are particularly vulnerable to storms. They deserve better protection”(Poverty and vulnerability to storms). Poor people often have poor or weak shelter because they didn’t have enough money to buy a proper house. When storms come, they have nowhere to take shelter and they end up dead. Poor people can barely survive when storms hit because they have poor protection. If the government had a better place for them, they would not end up dead. But the Government doesn’t care much about the poor people in India.  They don’t help them, and so the poor people have no hope when a natural disaster happens. They are humans too, “they deserve better protection” like the author state.

In the “1000 Indian Workers Dead. The Grim Reality of Qatar’s FIFA world cup Dream” article wrote by Kunal Anand, he stated that “In 2013, a Doha hospital reported that over a 1,000 workers were admitted to the trauma unit because of falling from heights, and a “significant” number of them died. Working 12 hours a day in 50-degree heat (122 degrees in Fahrenheit), without enough water – that’ll knock anyone out” (Anand). We can see that with the poor working conditions, workers in India have to work very hard with low pay. According to Kunal Anand, “Many are dumped and forgotten in squalid accommodations by companies who promised them a better life” (Anand). They have to share one bedroom with eighteen people, share a bathroom with sixteen people and thirty-five people share a kitchen. And that is not all, sometimes they aren’t even paid salaries. You can see the workers in India have been suffering every day and when the government was asked about this, they answered “Despite the high death count of Indian labourers in Qatar, our embassy in Qatar says this it is “quite normal”, according to Amnesty International”, [qtd. In Anand]. When the worker is sick or dying, the company just throws them away and hires a new worker. You can see that the poor people who have to work hard every day are being throw away like trash by the government when they are no longer valuable to them. The mortality rate shows that more poor people die than rich people in storms, but the political policies are the root of the problem.

The government in “India spends only 1% of its GDP on health care,” according to Dario Berrebi in the Poverty in India: Causes, Effects, Injustice & Exclusion article. That is not a lot of money for the second most populated country in the world, while China spends 3% to 4% of its GDP on health care. With that little amount of money, they couldn’t help all the poor people in India. He also states that “50% of Indians don’t have proper shelter; 70% don’t have access to decent toilets (which inspires a multitude of bacteria to host their own disease party); 35% of households don’t have a nearby water source; 85% of villages don’t have a secondary school (how can this be the same government claiming 9% annual growth?); Over 40% of these same villages don’t have proper roads connecting them” (Poverty in India: Causes, Effects, Injustice & Exclusion). Through the research, you can see the big picture of poor people’s life in India, they don’t have proper shelter, access to decent toilets which leads to disease, their households don’t have clean water to use and to drink, villages don’t have secondary schools, and much more… We can see that the government didn’t try to help or to make any changes to solve this problem and they abandoned these people.

From all of this information, we can see the big picture of poor people in India. They received poor health care; the government only spends 1% of its GDP on healthcare for its citizens. Because of that, every day more and more people get sick from disease, especially by Visceral leishmanisis (a kind of disease). The old law that was created by The British government for the purposes of ruling people is still in effect today, and the poor people are the ones who are affected the most. The health care and the law are the reason for the mortality rate. With weak shelters, poor people are more likely to be killed in a disaster.  In addition, workers work too much in the harsh conditions and dangerous places to stay lead to the death of over a 1,000 workers in 2013. Political policies are one of the worst problem is India. Besides the problem in health care and the law and mortality rate, the government doesn’t care much about poor people, and when something happens to them, they ignore them and say that this is normal. Through this research paper, you can see a disposable culture in India where people have been thrown away when they have no more value. This is important for everyone to know, so they can help the poor people in India escape from the disposable culture.

 

 

 

Work cited

Berrebi, Dario. “Poverty in India: Causes, Effects, Injustice & Exclusion.”Poverties.org. 1 July 2013. Web. 20 Jan. 2016.

Dey, Atanu. “India, Poverty And The Economist.” India Currents 29.5 (2015): 18. MasterFILE Complete. Web. 21 Jan. 2016.

“Poverty And Vulnerability To Storms.” Issues In Science & Technology 30.3 (2014): 83. MasterFILE Complete. Web. 21 Jan. 2016.

Boelaert, M., et al. “The Poorest Of The Poor: A Poverty Appraisal Of Households Affected By Visceral Leishmaniasis In Bihar, India.” Tropical Medicine & International Health 14.6 (2009): 639-644. Consumer Health Complete. Web. 21 Jan. 2016.

Sinha, Anushree, Purna Chandra Parida, and Palash Baurah. “The Impact Of NABARD’s Self Help Group-Bank Linkage Programme On Poverty And Empowerment In India.” Contemporary South Asia 20.4 (2012): 487. MasterFILE Complete. Web. 21 Jan. 2016.

Anand, Kunal. “1,000 Indian Workers Dead. The Grim Reality Of Qatar’s FIFA World Cup Dream.” 15 May 2015. Web. 1 February 2016.

 

 

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Poverty and vulnerability to storms.

The author’s thesis is about when natural disasters happens, poor people are more likely to be killed. According to the author, “In India, Cyclone Phailin in 2013 caused 38 deaths, a vast improvement from the 10,000 deaths resulting from a similar storm in 1999. Poor people, especially in developing countries, are particularly vulnerable to storms. They deserve better protection. ”

With this information, I could say that when the storm come, having money and housing helps you survive, and many people in India do not have these things.

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The impact of NABARD’s Self Help Group-Bank Linkage Programme on poverty and empowerment in India.

By: Sinha et al., 2009

In the text, the author’s thesis is number of malnourished children may be more then current estimate. the support for the text, “In Table 2, we see that underweight includes children in groups C, D, E and Y but misses those in groups B and F (13% of children in the sample); stunting misses groups B, C and Y (15% of children in the sample); and wasting misses those children in groups E, F and Y (44% of children).”

Group                                                                       Number of children

A (no failure)                                                              9 806 (40.2)
B (wasting only)                                                        630 (2.6)
C (wasting and underweight)                                       1 489 (6.1)
D (wasting, stunting and underweight)                   1 756 (7.2)
E (stunting and underweight)                                6 801 (27.9)
F (stunting only)                                                      2 467 (10.1)
Y (underweight only)                                                 1 447 (5.9)
Total 24 396

This information help me to showed that more children come from the poor family are malnourished and that number is greater than we thought, the government didn’t care much about it because the children is come from the poor family.

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Effects of Poverty in India: Between Injustice and Exclusion

A famous resources

In this text, the author thesis is the Government doesn’t care about the poor people in India and how to solve the poverty problem. According to the author, “India spends only 1% of its GDP on health care.”

• 50% of Indians don’t have proper shelter;
• 70% don’t have access to decent toilets (which inspires a multitude of bacteria to host their own disease party);
• 35% of households don’t have a nearby water source;
• 85% of villages don’t have a secondary school (how can this be the same government claiming 9% annual growth?);
• Over 40% of these same villages don’t have proper roads connecting them.

With this data, I could prove that the government didn’t care much about the poor people.  It could do so much more for its people.

 

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India, Poverty and The Economist.

Famous Sources By:  Atanu Dey

The author’s thesis in this text is India is poor because of government action/inaction. According to the author, ” It’s the rules and regulations that Indians in India labor under that is the primary cause of India’s lack of progress. These “licence, control, permit, quota” rules and regulations originate in the British colonial era, which were made for the benefit of the British government and for the purposes of ruling a colonized people. Those did not change after 1947. ”

I think this sources could help me to show that government ignore the poor people, they did not give the poor people the opportunity to have a job and feed their children.  There is little change from free India and British controlled India.

 

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The poorest of the poor: a poverty appraisal of households affected by visceral leishmaniasis in Bihar, India.

By: Boelaert et al., 2009

The author’s thesis was that “Visceral leishmanisis (a kind of disease) clearly affects the poorest of the poor in India. According to the author: “Components Analysis and the distribution of this asset index for the VL communities was compared with that of the general population of Bihar. Results 83% of households in communities with high VL attack rates belonged to the two lowest quintiles of the Bihar wealth distribution. All socio-economic indicators showed significantly lower wealth for those households.”

I think this sources could help me prove that poor people are disposable by saying that you are more likely to be affected by this disease if you are poor. So people can see the distance between poor people and rich people.

Choice Writing: Sword Art Online

Sword Art Online

Sword Art Online is one of my favorite TV shows that I found by incidental when I was bored and wanted to find something to watch after I finished my homework. The TV show was amazing and it was one of the best shows that I have ever watched. However, my friend said that the novel was even better, so I decided to read the novel of Sword Art Online.
The author of the novel Sword Art Online was Reki Kawahara, he is the most wonderful writer that I have known. His writing made it very easy for me to imagine the mood of the story. The story Sword Art Online was placed in 2022s, when scientists had successfully created a Virtual Reality, and along with that, a company created a game called “Sword Art Online” for short “SAO.” It used a machine called Nerve Gear, which is like a helmet. It works “by using numerous electronic signals these sent, the gear accessed the user’s brain itself. The user didn’t use their eyes and ears to see and listen, but took in the signals that were sent directly into their brain.” The Nerve Gear could access all five senses, and it stopped you from moving while you were in the gaming by blocking the signals from your brain to your whole body.
The story centers around a boy whose name was Kirito. He didn’t feel like he fit in real world. He loved SAO because it allowed him to escape the real world. The first time he logged onto SAO, he met a guy named Cline. Clime begged him to teach him how to play and Kirito agreed. They became fast friends. Kirito didn’t get along well with people, both the real life and in the game, but now that Cline was his friend, he didn’t feel alone any more.
If Kirito hadn’t meet Cline, he would be alone because he didn’t have any friends, and if he had one, it would not be a close friend. Cline made him laugh every time he did something foolish. While Kirito was teaching Cline, “The world changed forever” when they heard a warning bell and they were teleported by an item and a terrible thing happened after that. They were taken to the central plaza of the “Starting city” with ten thousand players. Suddenly, a man wearing a red robe appeared in the sky. He told them his name was Kayaba Akihiko. That name shook Kirito because Kayaba Akihiko was the genius who created Sword Art Online, and the designer of Nerve Gear. Kirito respected him but now, he didn’t understand why a genius was doing such a thing like this. He announced that none of the players could log out, and if they tried to escaped from this world in any way, they would die in the game and die in the real world. “213 players have already exited this game, and the real world forever.” Also, if you died in the game, you died in the real world too. The only way to get out of this game is to get to the top of Aincrad, where they are standing. Kirito froze, because Aincrad is a big castle which is 100 floors high. Each floor has a final boss who guards the door to the next floor. Before this happened, he had been killed a few time trying to beat the boss but it was impossible. Kayaba told them that he was doing this for only one reason and that is create and watch this world. After this bombshell, he disappeared into the darkness. If Kayaba hadn’t changed the game and trapped people, the game would be an amazing place that many would people want to visit. There would have been more than hundred million people who joined the game if Kayaba didn’t change the game. You could see the green stretching plains with the beautiful sunset on the endless sky, but the most wonderful nature beauty is the giant tree as talle as the hundred building floor. You couldn’t see anything like that in the real world.
After that, “countless voices started to resound loudly through the plaza.” “Yells. Clamors. Shouts. Curses. Begging. And screaming.” Kirito calmed himself and realized that this game was now reality. He started to go fight monsters to earned experience and money because it was the only way to survive in this new world. Luckily, he knew every dangerous spot and he asked Cline to go with him but Cline had another friend who “stood in line for ages” with him to buy this game and he couldn’t leave him. So Kirito Started his own journey in the “lonely game of survival.”
It has been two years since the disaster day, “with twenty-six floors left, the number of survivors was around six thousand.” Kirito now lived in “Algate” which is located on the fiftieth floor and it was the biggest city in Aincrad. Once Kirito went in to the forest, he found a “Ragout Rabbit which was a S item because it was incredibly rare and “it was set as the most delicious food ingredient among the numerous ingredients available in the game.” In this game, you could only eat soup and bread and it lacked flavor. But even when Kirito had the most delicious food ingredient, he didn’t have a high enough level of cooking so he decided to sell it. Then he went to the shop that was owned by Egil, a merchant. At this place, he met a girl who would change his life forever. Her name was Asuna; she was so famous that almost everybody in the game knew her, she was so beautiful. If he never went to the shop, he may never have had a chance to meet Asuna because she always goes with the guard. She asked about the rabbit meat as she heard Kirito talked to Egil, Kirito knew that she had a high enough cooking skill and he said that he would give her half if she cooked it for him. She agreed, said they should go to her house. Kirito froze upon hearing this. Kirito was at Asuna’s house on the sixty-first floor at “Salemburg”.
Her house was huge with a large kitchen because she like cooking. It didn’t take long to cook because this was game, so the machine to did all the work. And so, after just five minutes, the table was fully set and Asuna and Kirito sat down and enjoyed the meal. The meal was so delicious that after finishing it, Asuna let out a big sigh. “Ah… I did well to stay alive till now.” While Kirito was having tea with her, she asked him to go with her tomorrow. He fell over with embarrassment and happiness because “almost any guy would want to party with someone you could call the prettiest girl in Aincrad” and he decided to meet her at 9 am tomorrow.
The clock struck 9 am, the bell rang, and Asuna was late. Kirito decided to go home but suddenly, a person teleported and appeared right next to Kirito. They collided and fell to the ground. It was Asuna, she was hiding from her guard. Her guard was named Cradil and he hated and disregarded Kirito. So to free Asuna from her guard, Kirito decided to fight Cradil. The battle lasted 30 seconds, Cradil put all his strength into the sword and began to run towards Kirito, but as expected, Kirito aimed for the weakest part of Cradil’s sword, and the blade broke in half. As Kirito swung his sword to the right, people began to cheering. Cradil had lost and he had to stop following Asuna. He was teleported while glaring at Asuna and Kirito with hate, even as his body disappeared in a flurry of blue light. Then they entered to forest.
The air in the forest was warm as they entered. While they were talking, Kirito heard a foot step and he asked Asuna to hid because they didn’t know if the people who were near here were bad guys or good guys. Luckily, they were normal people who belonged to the group called “The Army”. As they enter the dungeon, Kirito knew that they were going to fight the boss. But the boss on this floor is very difficult, even for one hundred people, so Kirito and Asuna followed them into the dungeon to make sure. As they were going in, Kirito met a friend that he had known for the longest time in Aincrad, Cline. As they were talking happily, they met The Army passing by and they asked for the map from Kirito, who had mapped all the dungeons. After they had the map, they walked away and disappear into the darkness. At that time Kirito had realized that “The Army” was heading to the boss so he, Asuna, Cline and his friend ran after them. But by the time they came it was nearly too late and the leader of “The Army” was dead and the rest were in a panic and hopeless. Asuna couldn’t see any more dead; she took out her sword and ran to the boss called The Gleameyes. With no other choice, Kirito drew his sword and followed her. The Gleameyes turned to her and swung its sword at her and she “was knocked down by the shockwave.”
“Asuna!” Kirito shouted with feared.
Kirito stepped back and used his extra skill that he had been hiding, and the technique he was using was his high-class sword skill; a sixteen-hit combo attack. The demon roared and hit Kirito a few time, but he was paying no attention. Finally, the demon roared for the last time and fell down to the ground, Kirito was nearly dead, and he fainted away. After a while, he woke up to “Asuna’s calls, which were almost like screams.”
From then, with Kirito’s help, they got to the eightieth floor. Today was the day that they would fight the boss of this floor. This time, all the people who were fighting in this dungeon were in a group called “Kob”, and the leader’s named was Heathcliff. As they entered the boss room, the battle began. The door was closed, the only way to get out is to defeat the boss. “The entire group fell into silence for a long moment” because there was no sign of the monster.
“Above us!!”
The monster from the ceiling, jumped down, it was about ten meters long, and “the body that was divided into numerous parts reminded me more of a human spine than an insect. Sharp legs made of bare bones could be seen protruding from every joint.” There were three people who were already dead by one hit from the monster. It was too powerful. But Kirito found out its weakness and asked people to attack its side. “The fighting continued for over an hour,” and they won but fourteen people had died.
Everyone sat down exhausted beside Heathcliff. Kirito realized that Heathcliff didn’t lose a single Hit Point, which was impossible unless he was the creator of the game, Kayaba Akihiko. This suspicion was confirmed when he threw his sword at him and found out that he was protected by the game. They immediately had the battle with each other. This fight was the strangest, yet the most human fight that Kirito had partaken in up until now. Kirito knew he couldn’t defeat the creator of the game and he looked at Asuna for the last time. Kayaba sword goes straight to Kirito at an incredible speed. He closed his eyes and thought this was the end. When he opened his eyes, he saw Asuna with the long sword ripping its way down through her shoulder and all the way into her chest before it stopped.
Time had stopped. The sunset. The meadow. The gentle breeze. The slightly cold weather. She looked at Kirito with a smile on her face and “her body was slowly engulfed by a golden light. The small shards of light began to collapse and scatter.” She had disappeared. Kirito was about to collapse. Whether it was fighting in this world, returning to the original world, or even continuing to live on, all of them had lost their meaning. She was everything to him and now he had lost her. There was no reason for him to live in this world anymore. If he hadn’t meet her in the first place, she wouldn’t have died; she would have lived to fight until she got out of the game and returned to the real world with her family and friends. She could have bene happy. He grasped his sword and walked forward to the creator. With no strength, Kayaba easily stabbed through Kirito chest. When Kirito seemed to give up, he saw Asuna in his mind and that gave him strength. He used all his strength and stabbed Kayaba. As last, the silver rapier reached the center of Kayaba’s chest. Kayaba didn’t move. His expression of surprise had already disappeared a soft, peaceful smile had taken its place. After that Kirito’s mind sank deeper into the darkness, and the game announced, “the game was clear”
If he didn’t throw the sword to Heathcliff to notice that Heathcliff was the creator of the game, he would never have fought him and the game would have continued. He and the other players would have had to fight the boss of the next floor and he and they would die because the boss is impossible to defeat. The rest of the players would be trapped in the game forever.
He opened his eyes in and found that he was not in the game anymore, he was the hospital. He was surprised to be alive. He repeated the only word that appeared in his mind, “Asuna”. Maybe she was still alive and she was in the hospital somewhere. He reminded himself “My fight wasn’t over until I had Asuna—Yuuki Asuna in my arms.” He forced his heavy body to move and walked step by step forward to the door.