Saving Lives in "Traveling through the Dark" by William Stafford Essay | Essay

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Saving Lives in "Traveling through the Dark" by William Stafford Essay | Essay

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Saving Lives in "Traveling through the Dark" by William Stafford

Summary: William Stafford's poem "Traveling through the Dark" is about making the right decisions and saving lives when the situation arises, sometimes without warning. A man swerves along a narrow road to avoid hitting a dead female deer lying on the side of the road. In deciding to drag the deer off the road and into a nearby river, the man considers all the details, from the need to save other drivers along the road to the unborn fawn still alive inside the doe, and makes what he thinks is the best decision for all.
Saving Lives

The most wonderful thing in the world is being able to save the life of another. Some people have this chance and some people do not. The people that have not had the chance might have never been in a situation to save a person's or thing's life. Some people might have been in a situation to have saved someone or something and not chosen to act on it. The situation can be unnoticeable and you would have to think about it and observe the details. The poem "Traveling through the Dark" by William Stafford is about making the right decisions and saving lives.

In this poem, the speaker will tell us the story of how he made the correct decision and saved the life of many people. "Traveling through the dark I found a deer dead on the edge of the Wilson River road. It...

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