Individualism As humans discovering who one is as an individual is always being explored, and for some this question may never be able to be fully answered. But, a factor that will always make one an individual is their passions. One's dreams, desires, and what one believes in, is whats causes us to differ greatly from one another. What an individual is passionate about deems their entire life, what one does throughout the course of their life, who one loves, without passion the individual would sest to exist, people would all be copies of one another. If people follow responsibility rather than their own passions, it would make furthering the world impossible, and the individual will be lost. If an individual does not follow their passions the word will become stagnant, and never progress.The movie Selma gracefully proves this point.…show more content… When passion is pushed down, and put aside, one's individualism is gone, dead, because by doing so, one is pretending to be someone else by choosing to follow responsibility. In Peace Like A River the Jeremiah experiences this after Davy kills Israel Finch, and Tommy Basca. He is conflicted on how to feel about his son after he commits this crime. Jeremiah follows what he perceives as his responsibility, and in his own way he tries to forget his son. He becomes very troubled during this period because he is following responsibility. Once Jeremiah recovers from pneumonia, it's like he comes out of this dark place and decides to follow what he knows is right, as shown by this quote, “I have the substance of things hoped for. I have anticipation of things unseen” (Enger 130). This is where he decides all other opinions of Davy are not germane, only what he thinks matters. From this point on he is truly alive and is his own individual, because he is following what he is passionate about, finding his son, who he
