Have you ever put together a big puzzle? When you put the puzzle away, pieces sometimes get lost or bent. If they do, when you take it out and try to put it back together, the puzzle isn't complete; the overall picture is however satisfactory. In John Donne's "No Man Is an Island", the author similarly states that the inhabitants of the world constitute 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 stone dropped into a perfectly still pond; the consequence of the impact propagates 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 every man is part of a whole: "No man is an island, whole in himself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of a continent" ("No man is a 'island', sentence 1). It states that no person is completely alone. Every person is somehow connected to the world, regardless of whether he is aware of it, he leaves his mark in some way and effect; it is a part of the whole world. All beings and all things in the world must work together as a team for a common goal, such as to coexist. No one is complete without anything or anyone else, and everyone is equal...