'A part of the main'

"No Man is and Island", a poem by John Donne, is about Donne's view on people. I think the most significant parts of the poem are these lines: "Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less", In this part of the poem, Donne says that everybody is important and a part of something bigger. Then going on to say that if someone died, mankind would be less.

"Mankind is no Island" is an award-winning short film by Jason van Genderen. The video shows its messages through a phone's camera using words found around the streets of New York City and Sydney. Tho most important parts of "Mankind is no Island", in my opinion is the ignorance to the homeless and how passers by don't even pass a glance, much less give a donation to someone who needs that kind of help. However, towards the end of the video people stop to take notice to the homeless by talking to them; a simple gesture that could change the way someone felt for the rest of the day. People fortunate enough might take such a gesture as talking for granted but for someone like a homeless person, it could cheer them up.

Both "No Man is and Island" and "Mankind is no Island" play on the same ideas that all are important and no one deserves to be ignored. Though they both tried to deliver around about the same idea I found the video a bit more impacting as I find that a video is more expressive than text. I find that both John Donne and Jason van Genderen are similar to other people we have studied like Aung San Suu Kyi and Fatmire Feka as Donne and van Genderen both have a belief and they are letting their opinions be heard one way or another.