The story follows Yazid, a worker at an oil derrick, who experienced trauma from his village being burned down. Yazid shows signs of distress from rescuing an old man from the fire. In conversations with his friend Jamal, they discuss their fears of death but also how death gives purpose and motivation to life. Jamal believes everyone dies differently, which is what truly makes death scary, as the cause is unknown. The insights gained encourage enjoying life to its fullest extent rather than solely focusing on work, as life is both short and long enough to savor moments along the way.
The story follows Yazid, a worker at an oil derrick, who experienced trauma from his village being burned down. Yazid shows signs of distress from rescuing an old man from the fire. In conversations with his friend Jamal, they discuss their fears of death but also how death gives purpose and motivation to life. Jamal believes everyone dies differently, which is what truly makes death scary, as the cause is unknown. The insights gained encourage enjoying life to its fullest extent rather than solely focusing on work, as life is both short and long enough to savor moments along the way.
The story follows Yazid, a worker at an oil derrick, who experienced trauma from his village being burned down. Yazid shows signs of distress from rescuing an old man from the fire. In conversations with his friend Jamal, they discuss their fears of death but also how death gives purpose and motivation to life. Jamal believes everyone dies differently, which is what truly makes death scary, as the cause is unknown. The insights gained encourage enjoying life to its fullest extent rather than solely focusing on work, as life is both short and long enough to savor moments along the way.
The story follows Yazid, a worker at an oil derrick, who experienced trauma from his village being burned down. Yazid shows signs of distress from rescuing an old man from the fire. In conversations with his friend Jamal, they discuss their fears of death but also how death gives purpose and motivation to life. Jamal believes everyone dies differently, which is what truly makes death scary, as the cause is unknown. The insights gained encourage enjoying life to its fullest extent rather than solely focusing on work, as life is both short and long enough to savor moments along the way.
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Cantal, Vernon Dohn Rowley D.
Mktmgt 2101
The Oil field Laborer's is a short story about a group of workers from an oil derrick. It features the hardships and trauma of Yazid (one of the workers at the derrick). At the start of the story, a village was burnt along with other villages around it and Yazid was living in one of those villages that was burned and Yazid carried an old man out his cock’s house/cage that was also burned. As the story progressed, Yazid shows signs of trauma from that experience. Yazid’s friend Jamal who is 42 years old was afraid to die but believes at the same time that death is necessary. After reading this story, it actually gave me a few more insights about the importance of death. Yes, all of us fear death but if we all think about it; death actually gives us purpose, it gives us motivation, and it makes us dream and strive to achieve those dreams. If we don’t die at all, why would we do our task, why would we study, why would we even get out of our beds if we can do it tomorrow or on the next century; we all do what we do because we know everything will end someday, the reason why we enjoy life is because we know its limited. Jamal also stated at his conversation with Yazid that we all die in different ways, which is why death is actually scary, the reason why we fear death is not because it will end us but is because it is too spontaneous and we have no idea what would be the cause of it. If we all know when we would die and if we will all die peacefully, we won't be too afraid die at all. These are my realizations after reading the short story “ The Oil Field Laborers” and to sum it all up I would like to say that life is too short that we should enjoy it and not focus just on working and studying, there more than just studying and working in life, remember that we work to live not live to work; life is also long enough for us to enjoy so be patient and don’t rush your life because sometimes the greatest view are the ones enjoyed when we take our time.
