The Patented Gate and the Mean Hamburger

Robert Warren once talked about the difficult necessity of self knowledge. What exactly does this mean? What does it mean to know ourselves? And does it really matter if we stay true to ourselves. In the story “The Patented Gate and the Mean Hamburger” by Robert Warren, Jeff York is a hardworking farmer who has to choose between keeping his farm or buying the inn that his wife wants. He finally chooses to sell his …showed first 75 words of 828 total…

…showed last 75 words of 828 total…himself in the end it costs the good man everything. Robert Warren was right when he talked about the difficult necessity of self knowledge. When we get old and gray and we’re looking back on our lives, weather or not we stayed true to ourselves through thick and thin will be one of the only things that will really matter. Because in the end the only person we have to answer to is ourselves.