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| Which view is right? Prioritizing your desires or prioritizing what you feel is better for everyone else? |
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I'm Jumping off the Bridge is an essay regarding the motivations for suicide. After meeting with a man who wanted to kill himself, Sampsell started to think, perhaps his life was not worth living either. However, the essays purpose is not to tell the audience that life is not worth living. Just the opposite. A person with regrets or desires has no reason to die. At the end of the essay, the author discovers his reason to live. He is able to do so with his use of repetition and irony. The author merely listed things off that from an outside perspective would show it would be better to die, but from the author's personal viewpoint, dying would mean another, only this time, ironically his own perspective would tell him to live. This was an excellent use of repetition and the irony only served to strengthen Sampsell's point. I think this essay was definitely meant for an audience that has contemplated, but has not yet committed suicide. The memories are precisely build the author's credibility as well. Not only did he have personal suicidal thoughts, but he even helped another man he barely knew with that man's problems. These experiences in particular, along with the author's assumed 40-50 years of life experience serve to make Sampsell worth listening to. I think the author has done a decent job at attempting to get those contemplating suicide to look at things more optimistically. The author's narrative allows the reader to grasp the idea that life may or may not be worth living; it all depends on perspective.
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