The Origin of Happyness for the Happiness (Young Ho Yoon)

The story is an analysis of the novel The Pursuit of Happyness by Chris Gardner. It is about one man’s life story that gave a new hope for many people. We can see in this novel how Chris Gardner spends his days with his son Christopher until he finds success in his life. There are three main benefits that readers can gain from his story and realize that every person can have hope in life and can realize what real happiness is. That’s because the hero Chris Gardner’s life story in the novel is real and he showed the change from the impossible to the possible. That’s why his life story affected a big issue in society. In my opinion, he wants to emphasize readers that the happiness comes easily from the happyness. Today, most of people who remember his life story still feel deeply affected and greet him with a storm
of applause.
The first thing that we can learn from his story is the importance of familial love. In The Pursuit of Happyness, I could see Chris Gardner and his son Christopher have trusted each other until they find success. In the process, they are faced with a lot of terrible difficulties and problems. Nevertheless, they think optimistically about everything and they accept everything without any dissatisfactions. They share a lot of good advice and help each other when they do something, just as a business partner would. When Chris Gardner says a wise saying to his son Christopher, Christopher always pays attention and follows him with a trusting mind. When Chris Gardner sees such behavior, he usually gets courage while he was doing his work and he doesn’t want to make his son disappointed. Chris Gardner wants to show his nice disposition to his son, so he continues his work. In such impressive contents of
this book, we can feel and learn that a familial love and familial trust are very important in life. We can learn that the author Chris Gardner wants to show such strong love, strong trust, and a hope for the future. The most important aspect of The Pursuit of Happyness is that family should stay together in every event.
The second moral that we can take away from his story is to have confidence and
persistence in our lives. Chris Gardner loses his wife Linda, his car, and his house in the story. Just his son Christopher is left for him. He is even kicked out of the motel and he stays in the street. Nevertheless, he never shows his exhaustion, his sad face, or his frustrated feelings in front of his son. He never gives up and he tries hard at his work. In such bad times, Chris Gardner shows efforts to his son until he becomes successful. He emphasizes the saying, “Never believe the word that you can’t do. Don’t let somebody tell you, you can’t do something. If you have a dream, you should protect it. If you want to do something or want to be something, don’t stop until you get it.” And finally, he shows his successfulness with his son in the end of the story. In such contents, we can learn if we try with endurance and
confidence and without fear, we will find the way and hope in our lives. If we are
disappointed and frustrated by the difficulties, we will never be successful. The author Chris Gardner wants to show you must have a strong mind and the outlook of “I can do it.”
The third thing that we can learn from this novel is to find your happiness. In the story, Chris Gardner leaves his son in the childcare center before he goes to work. He found the incorrectly spelled “happyness” written on the wall of the childcare center. He says the spelling of the word “happiness” is incorrect to the one Chinese man who works in the childcare center. But the Chinese man doesn’t understand what Chris Gardner is talking about and ignores him, and the word “happyness” is left there. In this situation, the story shows us the difference between happyness and happiness. The meaning of the word happiness in the novel The Pursuit of Happyness is that Chris Gardner’s happiness is what he wants to pursue. His happiness is being rich. The meaning of the word happyness in the story for his son Christopher is what he wants to pursue. His happiness is enjoying everything with affirmative thinking with his father. It means pure happiness. In the end of his life story, when Chris Gardner gets a job, he says, “This part of my life, this little part, is called happyness.” That’s because he realized that he could win his hard time thanks to the happyness that he felt with his son. That’s why maybe the title of this story is The Pursuit of Happyness.
In conclusion, I could realize the meaning of pure happiness. It is the happyness. It is to feel the happiness in your life when you think something is perfect for you. You need to try to get this with strong conviction. In the process for our goal and success, if we can feel the enjoyment and gratitude in small part of life that is called happyness and keep trying continue, we will become successful with less trials and can feel the happiness that everybody wants to feel. Happiness comes only when we really try to pursue something then, we can find the true
happiness(happyness) in the process of our effort. The worth of a pursuit, in my opinion, is to think positively and enjoy the days of our lives so that to feel the happyness for the happiness.