Suffering is something that everyone has to deal with sometime in his or her life. You can either be positive while suffering and live through it or you can choose the other route, being miserable the rest of your life. Many parents who have lost their children in accidents or disease have suffered greatly. Half will try live through it with bumps and the other half will never succeed getting through it because they could …showed first 75 words of 2537 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2537 total…stop it. This is why we must have a positive outlook on life, or else we would end up lying around and eating a big bag of potato chips. In Jane Hamilton’s, The Book of Ruth, many characters end up living either a terrible life or live the life they wanted to live. As you can see the attitude in the characters lives throughout the novel depended greatly on the outcome of their lives.