What is the meaning of life? To me, it is essential to always have a goal that we can strive for in life. Challenges are also part of our lives; everyone will have their struggle. Although we will face various challenges as our life goes on, there will always be a way to fight through. It is pointless to live a life without a goal. What is the point of living a life without something that you want to achieve?

In the novel, The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemmingway, the characters belived that they are living the "life". Parties, alcohol, satisfaction, are the only elements that they want in their life. Living blindly every day, the characters do not have a specific goal to fight for or a direction to follow. They live a life where they would repeat themselves day to day just like how a turntable would repeat itself. They would wake up, drink with friends, party all night, wake up the next day and do the same exact things all over again. Without a sense of direction, why should we even live? Just like a dead man, the characters from The Sun Also Rises they are “dead” as they have no reason to live for. It is important to have a direction in our life.