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Essay about Breaking Night

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Obstacles to Overcome and Mistakes to Forgive It is fascinating when two people from completely different backgrounds have common characteristics. A world of poverty is depicted in Liz Murray’s book Breaking Night (2010). The memoir tells the struggles of a young girl’s journey from living on the city streets to attending one of the top schools in the country. Although our lives are quite different, Liz Murray and I show similar traits through struggle and success. Murray must over come many struggles in her life. Thanks to her persistence, she makes it to her final goal and is able to get over these struggles along the way. For example, Murray decides that she wants to finish high school and have a great education; however, she has …show more content…

The author and I both have a quality that helps us overcome difficult situations and to push through them while others may give up. I acknowledge that the problems I face everyday may not be as severe as Murray’s; however, the idea is still the same. Another characteristic the author exhibits is forgiveness. The struggles her parents cause her display this trait. For instance, Ma constantly neglects Murray as a child. Drugs and alcohol consume the parent’s lives, so Murray and her older sister do not receive the proper care they need. Also, Ma frequently spent her daughter’s money or sold their items without their consent. The readers are astonished when the author says many times that she forgives Ma and just moves on. An important scene in the story occurs when Murray looks back on her childhood and forgives her mom for all of her wrongs, and concludes her mom did the best that she could do. Many people would resent their parents after all the hardships they caused, and so does the author at first. But she finds it in her heart to forgive which shows her kindness and really displays how mature of a person she is. Although at different points in our life, Murray and I both have forgiveness. When I was young, my little brother was assigned to watch my fish while I was at summer camp. After a week of fun I came home to a sad loss. My brother had neglected the fish and the task at hand. With no food and no clean water, the fish had died by the

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