Fire. After reading Faulkner's "Barn Burning" and Goethe's "The Holy Longing," fire has a new meaning for me. Faulkner's character, Abner, is a farm hand who must work hard in order to take care of his large family. Abner, however, does not have a farm of his own to work, so he is forced to work the land of others. Abner has a bad habit of burning down his boss's barns. Some may think that …
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…is to graduate! That fire inside of me is a way out, a way out of my current lifestyle. As long as it keeps burning, I will someday not have to wodner how I'm going to afford to pay my bills because the job I currently am at barely makes enough for me to make ends meet. Thanks to this fire inside of me, I will graduate and find a way out of college-life poverty!