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Sarah Desson's Journey

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"Its the things you fight for and struggle with before earning that have the greatest worth” (Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride, 302). Sometimes the journey of life will get hard and goals that have been set with seem to move further and further away, but in the end everything will work out for the better and the very journey that once was rough and bumpy is the very journey that will make everything worth it. Auden an 18 year old girl living through her last summer before going off to college is now learning of all the things she has missed out on throughout her childhood and life and now, with the help of others, she is learning that its not to late to change and it never is. Auden's journey relates to the journey of famous author J.K …show more content…

Rowling may have several things in common but the largest thing that they share is their ways of an introvert. One of the reasons Auden was such an introvert at the beginning of her journey was because of the high expectations of her parents and the way she isolated herself from the other kids from an early age. Auden early on talks about her parents and her early childhood stating that, "In their minds. that was something I could overcome, if I just tried hard enough. (Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride, 172). Auden's parents were always very strict with her and had high expectations of her even form an early age. They felt that she could always be better and would be able to skip the chaotic part of a childhood and go straight to the books and success. So in this way Auden was different then other kids from a very early age and had a hard time relating to them. Auden was different then other kids from a very early age and had a hard time relating to them do to the differences in witch they were raised. "I didn't understand their craziness, their energy, the rambunctious way they tossed around couch cushions, say, or rode their bikes wildly around culsde-sac,” Auden says expressing her feelings towards the other kids when she was growing up (Sarah Dessen, Along for the Ride, 8). Auden wanted to be a part of a group and to feel like she belonged, but it was difficult for her when she was unable to relate to the other kids and play with them in the ways they were accustom to. Although J.K. Rowling may not have had a hard time relating to other kids when she was younger or had strict parents that does not change the fact that she still grew up to become an introvert. J.K. Rowling actually recalls on her website that she first had the idea for Harry Potter in 1990 when she was traveling alone on a delayed train from Manchester to London. "I had been writing almost continuously since the age of six but I had never been so excited about an idea

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