Genre
Nonfiction
Setting and Context
Written in the context of ethical success
Narrator and Point of View
First-person narrative
Tone and Mood
Enlightening, emphatic, and heartening
Protagonist and Antagonist
The central character is the 14th Dalai Lama.
Major Conflict
The major conflict is that negative inflictive emotions deter people from making ethical decisions.
Climax
The climax comes when the author emphasizes that suffering is part of human nature because it is unavoidable.
Foreshadowing
An individual's decisions and actions foreshadow karma in life.
Understatement
Ethical decisions are belittled in the text. The reader realizes that many obstacles in life prevent people from making morally right decisions.
Allusions
The story alludes to the importance of observing ethical standards in life.
Imagery
The imagery of ethics is prevalent in the text. Through ethics imagery, readers can see the obstacles that prevent people from making moral decisions in life.
Paradox
The main paradox is that despite an individual's desire to do what is morally right, several ethical dilemmas in life prevent people from achieving their set objectives.
Parallelism
There is the parallelism of ethical expectations and real daily life.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
Religion is incarnated as holy.