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Waking up one morning thinking you are going to die can be very life changing, but not for Leah Levitawitz, a woman who is so miserable with her life that the sign of death does not faze her. By Leah being stuck in her old ways makes her bitter towards the world. Leah once thought of the world as a dark place, being unhappy, bitter, and resenting the people who had helped her; but had a change of heart once the warehouse was moved and the window was fixed. In the story, “Windows,” written by Bernice Morgan, Morgan demonstrates how being stuck in the past can have a negative effect in the present.

Irene gets fired from her job at her moms hair salon and needs to make money so she gets a job babysitting. Evan and Lainie, the kids she are babysitting, love to go to Larkins pond. There is a lifeguard that is really pretty named Tara and Irene really wants to draw a picture of her but Tara has a very mean face but she does it anyway.

“You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them”, says Maya Angelou, an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. This quote reflects to Sarah’s journey in the novel Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay, since the main character, Sarah, faces events that affect her well being, as they make her both weaker and stronger. These events causes her to lose her innocence, makes her persistent, and then eventually drives her to be pessimistic. Sarah experiences traumatic events through her journey, which leads her to change both in a positive and negative way.

Each person goes through obstacles that occur many times in their lives, but some have difficult times dealing with it. Some people use different techniques to overcome these obstacles. In Everyone Leaves by Wendy Guerra, the protagonist Nieve is living from challenge to challenge. She feels comfortable and safe in her Diary, which has always been their for her especially in difficult times. Although many situations arise such as dealing with an abusive father, controlling boyfriend, and being left behind, Nieve finds a safe haven.

As the characters go through their exciting story they never end up learning from their first mistake. It costs them big time as it does to kids in the real world. It shows examples of this in the beginning, middle, and

Reading the novel She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb has led me to think about my own challenges, which helped me better comprehend the book’s themes. Throughout the story, protagonist Dolores Price deals with a variety of issues, which includes appearance, constant mistakes, and amends for those mistakes to understand her purpose in life. Although Dolores’s problems are different from mine, I could relate to her struggle. Because of this, I was able to better understand myself and the themes of transformation and coming of age.

You feel an intense, out-of-the-skin awareness of your living self—your truest self, the human being you want to be and then become by the force of wanting it. In the midst of evil you want to be a good man. You want decency. You want justice and courtesy and human concord, things you never knew you wanted. There is a kind of largeness to it, a kind of godliness. Though it’s odd, you’re never more alive than when you’re almost dead. You recognize what’s valuable. Freshly, as if for the first time, you love what’s best in yourself and in the world, all that might be lost. At the hour of dusk you sit at your foxhole and look out on a wide river turning pinkish red, and at the mountains beyond, and although in the morning you must cross the river and go into the mountains and do terrible things and maybe die, even so, you find yourself studying the fine colors on the river, you feel wonder and awe at the setting of the sun, and you are filled with a hard, aching love for how the world could be and always should be, but now is

When people suffer in a chaotic environment, they may let the situation or emotions stay internally in that environment or themselves, or others will divert emotions externally to other people, and this idea are present in Gladwell’ Broken Windows Theory and the experience of losing a friend in Gadwall’s essay. Gladwell introduces the Broken Windows Theory in his essay; he explains how not only do small crimes, such as broken windows, cause people to create bigger crimes, but also the environment people are in pressures them to fit in a certain circumstance. Gladwell explains, “External environment, that the features of our immediate social and physical world-the streets we walk down, the people we encounter – play a huge role in shaping who

Individuals tends to forget the events of the past. Especially, when they are minor things that do not involve themselves. However, when these events directly impact them, individuals have a tendency to try and carry the burden of the past all by themselves. In order to cope with this, people attempt to correct the past. However, one cannot simply change the past, leading oneself into more devastation and despair. The depression that an individual faces shakes the foundation of their society. It is only when an individual realizes the importance to let go, that they will be able to live a stable life. In the book “Mystic River” by Dennis Lehane and “How to be Lost” by Amanda Eyre Ward, two distinct

Being born into the age of speed, people are taught from a very young age to put their problems behind, to not think about them, and to just move on. The notion of always looking forward and never taking enough time to recover from a crisis is bound to result in suppressed emotions, which might eventually turn into personality disorders and unhealed wounds. In different pieces of literature, both Bell Hooks and Rachel Naomi Remen discussed how a person’s adulthood can turn into living hell once they are trapped in memories they never forgot. While Hooks told the story of the harmful childhood that gave her many emotional scars, Remen wrote about a lady whose childhood turned her into a cruel person she was not supposed to be. In both essays,

My experience with loss with comes from p.56 when the author talks about when we first come into life. “We enjoy being held, and then we’re suddenly put down.As we get older,we lose our friends when we or they move away, we lose our toys when they break or get lost, and we lose the softball championship. We have our first loves only to lose them. And the series of losses has just begun.”(pg.56) I think everything the author said spoke out to me especially “And the series of losses has just begun.”(pg.56) I even remember at a young age playing little league and wanting to win every game to end up either losing or winning sometimes. As a kid you think everything is perfect that your parents always have your back. I’ve seen it first hand my nieces and nephews just like any other 4 and 5 year old and maybe even older kids still believe this that their mom and dad are invincible can't die that they are forever living. However when you get older your youth is robbed from you, you slowing start to realize that everyone has their time even your own parents. Growing up for me loss was everywhere I lost two of my best friends because I had to move. Come to find out one

In life we are often faced with people who turn out to be wolves in sheep’s clothing. However, quite often the reverse is true. Sometimes the “sheep” turns out to be wearing the “wolf’s” clothing. The book Broken Things by G.S. Wright expresses the sheep in wolfs clothing, as life does.

In this passage, Jane breaks free from the bonds that hold her down and repress her, and for the first time the reader realizes Jane’s true personality and individuality (Anderson).

My mom hadn’t told me back then for some reason that is unknown to me to this day. Only today I realized that she had been wearing a veil of darkness that covered her face. Back then I was not really “innocent”, I was not capable to grasp the concept of how bad the world is. I had looked through with the mindset of a half-full glass. I’m not saying you shouldn’t look through a positive light, but, sometimes you need to look through the darkness to see where the light starts. Like a coin being flipped, everyone chooses either heads or tails never the band that is both. The band is the normal light that gives you a view of what's good and what's bad. After a bad occurrence, most of the time you would be mad or sad or just recovering. The darkness that is those things are what can cover your eyes with darkness and cloud you from what is good. If something good happens you are blinded by the bright light of positivity and you can never look on an incoming threat. In the news there are countless reports of people being murdered in alleyes because people decided that they were untouchable. They were blinded happiness, greed, and power that they couldn’t

I find myself sitting on a bench at 2 am. As I look look around and see the lake, the wind blowing on it so perfectly making ripples in the water. That was the moment I realized the extent of trouble I was in. I looked at the ripples on the water, how one flow of water simultaneously makes another. It dawned on me that life is like ripples of water, and how one decision can affect the rest of your life. For me, it was making a friend, something so innocent, it would have never thought to cause major problems. A feeling of nostalgia overtook me, and I started to daydream, back to the moment I met Anthony.