Essay | Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Ivan Denisovich, and Siddhartha: A Character Comparison

During the summer, it was my duty to read the stories of three very different characters: Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Ivan Denisovich, and Siddhartha. All of these characters went through very different journeys to reach their very different goals. Yet even though their goals and journeys were different, the characteristics in their personalities had to be similar, so they could have reached their goal with amazing strength. This essay will explore the traits that the characters shared and how they used these traits to reach their unique goals.

Independence was a characteristic shared by all of the main characters in the three novels. Seagull was independent because he went off and strived to achieve his goal of perfect fight by himself; there was no one there to guide him. He stuck to his goal, and never gave up. He never had anyone's footsteps to follow; he had to make...
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