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American History Analysis

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There is a time in everybody’s life where they worry over small things. It can be worrying over your homework due the following day, or what you’re going to wear for the day. These things tend to take over your life because you turn these small things into a mountain of a problem, especially as a child or a teenager. The most important thing about growing up is finding the bigger picture in life. In the story “American History,” Elena’s teacher has his students stand in line to reveal the unfortunate news on the president’s assassination. Though when he spits on the ground before he speaks, one of the students make an immature comment. Of course, this angers the teacher and he shouts at the students, “The President is dead, you idiots. I should have known that wouldn’t mean anything to a bunch of losers like you kids. Go home.’ He was shrieking now. No one moved for a minute or two, but then a girl let out a ‘Yeah!’ and ran to get her books piled up with the others against the brick wall of the school building. The others followed in a mad scramble to get to their things before somebody caught on” (Cofer 34). This shows, that sometimes people, like children for instance, don’t tend to take some things seriously. As a child, it’s easy to worry about smaller things in life. …show more content…

So eventually, years later, he decides to kill him. But when he arrived at Ralph’s doorstep and saw Ralph, he realized that things had changed, Ralph was sick and old, while he was healthy as a clam. So he decides to move on, as the text says, “Then swiftly, fleeing ahead of the dawn, we ran out of Green Town and back, thank you, dear Christ, back toward now and today for the rest of my life” (Bradbury 24). This shows that he realized that holding a grudge for something so silly for all those years was ridiculous. So he moved on from the past and towards what really mattered, the rest of his

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