How can being part of a community affect you ?
I have learned from reading essays, Walking the Path between Worlds and Health and Happiness, and the book The Scarlet Letter, that being or feeling a part of a community can have a huge positive impact. All show the importance of a community for an individual and how it can impact your physical and mental well-being.
If you aren’t in a community then you don’t have someone to talk to or go through life with. They will always have this void in them which will start to negatively impact them. Being told every day, either by yourself or someone else, that you don’t belong can get to you. In The Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale and Hester were not a part of the town either physically or mentally. Hester was shunned and isolated while Dimmesdale was alone in his despair, therefore cut-off from society. Continue reading
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