Most people have their own interpretation of perseverance when facing adversity. I believe perseverance is having an ultimate goal that a person insists to achieve, even though if they need to confront many challenges. Ultimate goal serves as personal faith and hope, which are one of the most important elements to allow a person to endure when facing adversity. It is able to enlarge one’s capacity of endurance and provide motivation to fulfill what they want. Through my exposure to literature such as poems, essays and novels in daily life, I understand that literature can influence readers by providing perspectives to either strengthen or no impact on a person’s ability to persevere when confronting hardships. However, it cannot teach readers directly as how to persevere.Hence, literature has some extend to teach readers to persevere when adversity. Initially, I thought that literature only has limited extend to teach readers to persevere when face adversity. However, after my colloquy discussion and the poem units, I changed my perspective as I viewed literature, to some extend teach the readers to persevere when confront obstacles. It was because I got more engaged with literature in this few month at class. I became more absorbed into the world of literature and developed a better understanding toward literature. For this reason, I might be more easier to connect literature to myself and society. Through these connection that I made from literature, I could find out how perseverance is existed in our surroundings and able to learn from it. Therefore, literature has somehow taught me to perseverance when face adversity by making readers to discover the association from the literature to the world. Human cannot experience all possible events in the world, but we can develop our experiences through the vicarious experiences brought by literature. When readers view the world through others’ eyes, oftentimes we can gain new understanding and knowledge. Prior to reading my ISU novel, The Orchard in the Swallows, by Peter Hobbs, I recognized love is a simple thing that exists in most of us. Therefore, I didn’t consider love as a factor that affects a person’s ability to persevere when facing adversity. I also had never experienced this extent of love as similar to the novel did, so I couldn’t understand how love can provide hope to a person in order to persevere through obstacles. In the novel, the protagonist, unnamed, is a man who is released from the jail after 15 years. Through the physically torture and the despair of life that he experienced in jail, he almost decided to suicide. However, the only thing saving him from the thought of death was his love for Saba. It was unwavering and powerful enough to sustain his hope of survival: I conjure