His name is Josh Sundquist. The story mostly takes place in flashbacks and Minnesota, where he talks to all the girls he ever had a crush on and why things didn’t work out between them. He has brown hair and slightly blueish eyes, and he is right around 6ft tall, and he only has one leg, he lost his left leg when he was 9 years old because of cancer, he became a paralympic skier because of this.. Throughout the small amount of life he has lived he has always blamed other people or circumstances for his mistakes, but it was his own problem, because he was afraid of what people would think of him, all because he had one leg, other people didn’t have a problem with him, he had a problem with himself because of his disability.
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They liked him because they thought he was a cool person, he was himself never acted like anyone else and was always understanding and not rude. They didn’t know secretly he hated himself for the way he looked and how his body was the way it was. I think these feelings are present because at one point in time, they did like him, and he didn’t make a move, so maybe they felt weird or confused, but they liked him, and he did nothing about it because he hated himself and was scared of rejection, we all are.
Reading this book is like looking through the eyes of a different life, one where you have one leg and hate yourself for it, one where you are attractive enough that people don’t care how many legs you have and still want to be with you. Reading something like this helps you relate, relate to people who do struggle with less limbs than most, or have cancer and are struggling to live a normal life. It helps you understand what someone else feels and the main reason you should care is if you had to live like this and you had an interesting story about your life, wouldn’t you want to share it, and have people who actually care about it, pretend it’s your story, is it interesting now?
It also tries to make you love yourself no matter what kind of events have happened
Young Josh leaves his home in the hills of northern Mississippi to go and join the Confederate Army at Corinth, Mississippi in April, 1862 to help defend his home form the damn Yankees, only to discover the war will test everything he believes in. As the months progress, he describes camp life and the battles of the western theater of the Civil War through letters home to his parents and family back home in
Another reason why the book is so worthwhile to read is that it captures another aspect of the human story:
There were a few points in this book that taught me about life and how crazy it can be sometimes. The photographer named Fulgencio was very afraid of hitch hiking to Mexico City with a stranger, especially with all of us expensive equipment. On the ride, Fulgencio is so paranoid that the guy is going to kill him, he grabs a machete out of the back of the truck. In doing so he gets kicked out of the car and loses all of his photography equipment anyways. This taught me that we need to trust each other more, Just because there are a few crazy people in the world, we shouldn't let them give us all a bad name. I mean, the guy picked Fulgencio up when he was in desperate need of a car, and gives him a ride. He should have been thankful, not picked up a machete and threaten the guy. Another thing this book taught me was that just because your sister doesn't want your kid anymore because she
The book is basically about how you can help someone in a time of need by just being there for them. Jill writes about what learned when she was helping her friend and how all it takes is just a few people to help someone. Kara writes about how much she appreciated just the little things people did for her. From people taking them meals, to doing their laundry to just watching and taking care of her kids for just a few hours. Jill writes that she felt awkward
This book is excellent source of an autobiography for this genre because it someone’s personal experience going through breast cancer. Students would like this book because everybody in this world is affected by cancer in some way by either personally. Also, I like this book because it can relate how not to give up and having perseverance through life. In this book, it uses her personal experience to describe the book.
According to Jonathan Rothchild, “Juveniles sentenced to life without parole have committed serious crimes and harmed individuals and society, but [he] holds that these sentences lack legal and moral justification.” Rothchild supports his claim by taking a multidisciplinary approach that integrates broader normative and theologically grounded conceptions of the dignity of children and the scope of society moral responsibility. Jonathan makes a universal approach to the idea of good. He acknowledges that cultures’ idea of good may vary but fights against the idea of ethical relativism. Rothschild believes that a child hold rights and duties, which includes being held accountable for their actions. In addition to their rights and duties, the
I am Josh K. William. I was born in 1757 in Michigan but later moved to Massachusetts. Growing up in a poor family, I had to start working at a very early age to earn a living. Because of the bad condition of the country, searching for a good job was impossible. So, I commenced working as a farmer.
"During Dr. Joseph Lorudo procedure, a patient experiencing perforation. The patient was hospitalized for sever days and undergoes procedure to remove a part of his colon."
I would recommend this book to a friend because it is a touching love story that we can all relate to in some way. The book is about Miles Ryan who lost his wife in a car accident when they were both only in their thirties and had a young child together. Though not all of us have lost our wife in a car accident, we all have someone in our life that we love and care about deeply. This book really shows that we could lose a loved one at any time and even though at first it might be really hard to get over losing them, things do get easier. This novel is relatable and makes you wonder about what is going to happen next. This is not only a love story, but it also has a little mystery to it. Miles Ryan spends almost the whole book trying to figure
The grass is always greener on the other side; the things you dismiss in your life, give little thought towards, or complain about may be what others envy. In Christy Brown’s memoir, my left foot, Brown is born with Cerebral Palsy, a condition that alters his physical growth, leaving him in a helpless state that requires aid throughout his entire life. In Brown’s life, he will physically make significant improvements and face obstacles that he is forced to coincide with in order to further the success of his condition. With that being said, as Brown grows and makes steps to show the world that he in his physical form is alive, without knowing, Brown has been in a mental battle between figuring out who he is, while gradually attaching, as well as clinging himself to inanimate objects, and the significant people that comes in and out of his life to define and fill the void on everything he’s missing.
This book is mostly told in the dairy format and for some people that may be a turn off but I thought it was a very interesting way to look at things. We may not be inside the main character’s mind but in a way we are, we sense her desperation, we feel the doubt gnawing at her. We see as she gets worse and worse. We are also stuck in this situation where we pretty much get one POV which makes it all the harder to find out what is actually real.
There is a boy who is 13 years old and lives in Scottville Michigan who goes to my old school. His name is Gabe Sessions. He is just another normal person like the rest of us but, when he was around 10 he developed a disease that is called Osteopenia, it decreases the strength of your bones. Usually you start to get signs of Osteopenia around 35 but, he developed it at an early age. He has to be in a wheelchair 24/7 because of it. He is still just a normal person like the rest of us but not physically. I didn't pick him just because he has a disability or because I feel bad for him. I picked Gabe for other reasons.
This book really helps other see that you don’t always know what’s going on in other people’s lives. Craig’s best friend didn’t even know he was depressed and kind of treated him terribly. People always say to treat everyone with kindness because you never know what they’re going through but how often do they live up to that? Speaking up about problems you know you have can be really hard to do but doing it and knowing people care helps a whole lot more than you would think. In this book there are great examples of that. Before telling someone to read this book I would tell them it’s a little bit of an emotional rollercoaster with lots of jokes included. I would talk to the person about what their feelings were while reading the book and who their favorite and least favorite characters were and
The book is like a life map for struggling teenagers in high school and could be beneficial on making them feel better about themselves. Charlie expresses the feeling of relief Patrick has when he first has relations with another male; “Patrick said it was like the weight of the whole world left both their shoulders” (Chbosky 43). Charlie stating what Patrick says may give some teenagers courage to come out to some people, or maybe just let someone know. Patrick is a very influential person in Charlie’s life; he makes Charlie actually feel like good about himself. When Charlie begins to cry, they made a toast; “I didn’t know why they did that, but it was very special to me that they did” (Chbosky 38). The book is a feel-good novel that helps teenagers in a time of
The most significant part of the entire text is that most of the readers will never feel the pain of author. The ability not to be able to relate and understand someone’s struggle is very impactful.