LRJ 1 Everyman

Hui Hoang
Ms. Peifer
English 10 IB
28 January 2009

The theme of Everyman is you can not have what you have earned but what you have given. In tests given to his friends asking them to jouney with him before his life ends to see if they would follow. But none of them agreed to go with him turning their backs and walking away. He did not know what do so he continued looking for more of his friends and kin to go with on ther journey.

All of his friends and family left him to go alone. "If death were the messenger for no man that is living today i will not go that loath journey not for the father begat me!" for they beleived that he was crazy to ask them to go on a journey with him even if the messenger that sent him on the quest was by death himself. But only his knowledge, strngth, beauty, and good deeds followed him. "and through this pilgrimage be never so strong, i will never part you fro." they did not

The things he has earned like, friends, kin, and worldly possesions do not follow him on his pilgramage. but the things he has given others like beauty, knowledge, strength, and good will followed him without their hearts wavering on the journey to the end.