Adversity enhances someone's positive characteristics by providing an ideal environment for establishing integrity and developing a mature mindset. This conclusion is valid because people tend to learn from their mistakes, thus gaining a broader perspective on life. Often, calamity serves as a catalyst for the discovery of latent talent; literature provides space for plots that tend to revolve around overcoming challenges and difficulties. In particular, in the World War II novel, Code Name Verity, follows a young girl named Julie, who is recruited into British special operations. Because she comes from a pampered lifestyle, she is unprepared for the adversities of military life; her mindset is still that of a naive child, exemplified when she identifies that growing old is one of her fears. This comment foreshadows his imprisonment in Nazi France. As he endures imprisonment and torture in the camp, he recalls his time in England, wryly lamenting how ignorant his so-called fear was, because now he may not have the opportunity to grow old. Faced with death, her life is put into perspective and Julie finally understands what her priorities are. It is important to note that it is unlikely that she would have experienced this paradigm shift without being placed in such a harsh reality. Similarly, minor characters such as Alexei Karenin from Anna Karenina commonly embark on their narrative arc through the stimulant of hardship. Karenin is a government official with little personality, who sees everything as a duty, and it is this bland impartiality that drives his wife, Anna, to his affair. After coming to know about it, he behaves spitefully towards her and refuses her request for ... middle of paper ... of past leaders Gandhi gained a new perspective and subsequently avoided repeating the past; this led him to attempt to embark on a new path, perceived as better for India. None of this would have been possible without the perspective gained through studying India's brutal past. Subsequently his efforts and strategies were subsequently emulated by other civil rights activists, effectively impacting society at large. Clearly, the perspective gained by looking back on one's mistake would be impossible without adversity, which serves as the source for repair; society would not be able to progress without some compulsion. Adversity provides the fundamental stimulus for the development of integrity and a mature mindset, allowing for the improvement of previous mistakes and the expansion of one's perspective on life, and this promotes society's progress towards idealism.