Have you ever put together a big puzzle? When you put the puzzle away, sometimes the pieces get lost or bent. If so, when you take it out and try to put it back together, the puzzle is not complete; the overall picture nevertheless remains satisfactory. In “No Man Is an Island” by John Donne, the author similarly says that the people of the world are a team. When the team (the world) loses a player, the team is not complete, but it finds a way to move forward without that player. Each player is like a pebble dropped on a perfectly still pond; the consequence of the impact reverberates from the center. The ripples reach all sides of the pond, in a far-reaching expression of cause and effect. Donne begins his poem by telling the reader that each man is part of a whole: “No man is an island, whole in itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of a continent” (“No Man Is An Island” sent. 1). He says no one is entirely alone. Every person is in one way or another connected to the world. Whether she realizes it or not, she leaves her mark in one way or another. It sends its own waves, its own causes and effects; it is part of the whole world. All beings and things in the world must work together as a team for a common goal, such as coexisting. Every human being has some sort of connection to someone or something else. No one is complete without anything or anyone else, and everyone is equal...