Choice

The connection between “The Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket” and the Poem “You Want a Social Life, with Friends” explains how life can not always be fair and you have to choose between certain things in your life that you have. You can not always have two things at once. In “The Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket” Tom has to choose between work and his wife. In the poem it explains that you have to choose between love, friends, and work. The theme that both texts have in common is that in life you have to choose certain things over others. For example Tome had to make the choice of his wife or work and he decided to work, but later in the end he realized that his wife was more important to him. He knew that he was slowly loosing his wife and that he wished he had spent more time with her. The theme connects to my life because sometimes I have to decide which things are more important to me like homework or friends. Most of the time i will pick homework because it is the thing that will get me the furthest.