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Essay # 4 I agree very strongly with John Donne’s quote, “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.” This point has been reinforced with every story that we have read. Upon reading about Authurian times, we found that the chivalrous knights were constantly calling upon each other for help. Sir Gawain sacrificed himself many times in order to help another human being (the slaying of the Green Knight or marrying the “loathly lady,” for example). Paul Baumer relied entirely on the support of his many comrades. The soldiers provided physical, and more importantly, spiritual support for each other during the horrible times that they were enduring. Even the almighty Beowulf couldn’t defeat the powerful dragon without the help of his nephew, Wiglaf. No man can be an island, because everybody relies on another person, another piece of the continent, to be able to surv