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 …showed first 75 words of 349 total…

…showed last 75 words of 349 total…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!