Braverman And Hope Quotes

Struggles can come from everywhere, but the hardest ones are from within. Our weaknesses, our flaws are the things we have to struggle with every day. I have grown up with quite a few struggles like everyone else. My anger, fear of public speaking and trust issues set me apart of other people and these are the struggles I cope with every day. I just have to learn how to live with those flaws and sooner or later I will overcome them.

My mother once said , “Without struggle there is no progress.” I have to say I agree. You have to go through obstacles , such as struggles, to get to your goal. My goal is to travel the world , through this future journey one will have to overcome difficult situations. Much like the Greek hero Odysseus, one will have to face challenges to be successful , in my journey to travel the world there are obstacles I will have to overcome like; money to obtain transportation, separation from family, and illness of families or friends.

Every event changes you even in the slightest way, on the other hand, changes are much more noticeable when there’s a bigger journey. In Joan Bauer’s, Hope Was Here, Hope and her aunt Addie, who is also her legal guardian, move to wisconsin after a disaster at their old diner. They work for a man named GT at the Welcome Stairways diner. GT soon becomes mayor but the leukemia got worse, and by the end, he passes away. Hope, the protagonist, changed from the beginning because now, she has a better appreciation for people around her and she’s overall stronger and kinder, not that she wasn’t kind before.

Is your well of love flourishing or dry? Do you have real parents to take care of you or are you neglected? Are you in perfect health or are you suffering from a disease? In the bildungsroman novel Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer, neglection, disease, and a lack of parenting are all conflicts in the novel. These conflicts also involve the two main characters Hope and G.T. Stoop. G.T is the owner of the Welcome Stairways which is a restaurant in a small town called Mulhoney in Wisconsin. G.T is 54 yrs old and is battling leukemia while being involved in a heated election. Hope, a teenager who is a junior in high school in Mulhoney and a full time waitress at the Welcome Stairways. She has to be able to adapt and change based on the obstacles she

“ If there is no struggles, there is no progress.” This famous quote was stated by Frederick Douglas. He was an african american abolitionist, civil rights leader, and social reformer that was born into slavery and faced many hardships in his life but eventually he overcame his difficulties and became a very famous colored man in a world full of slavery. In the book “Hope Was Here”, also several characters face struggles that require inner strength to overcome. Some examples are Braverman, Addie, and Hope. All of them had struggles but still overcame them. My great-grandmother had many obstacles in her life, but she still overcame them.

In the novel The Survivors, by Will Weaver, Miles Newell displays a constant mood of courageousness. One time in the novel, Miles takes the time to walk Sarah to the bus stop, even though she could've walked herself. (19) Another time Miles shows courageousness is when he shoots at that couple near the river. They could’ve been psychopaths and murdered him with axes. They were pretending to have a baby after all. (55) The last way Miles was courageous is when he and Artie tripped Danny off his motorcycle, at Birch Bay to get their old cabin back. (288) Danny could have also tried to kill them with his guns and stuff but they didn't they just left without a fight, which is kinda weird. Courageous means not being afraid to do whatever it takes

So If you ask others have I struggled well, they would probably tell you yes. Looking at my life from the outside, I seems to have it pretty together. I take on many task a father, a youth leader, a surgeon, an administrator (and now student) and remarkably get it all done. If you ask me, have I struggled well, I’d have to say, “ I am not so sure” I have many doubts and question. Sometimes God and I have some talks and they are not so nice from my end. But what does it mean to struggle well? I think of Corrie Ten Boone, what an amazing woman. She struggled well. She was a Christian survivor of the Concentration camps (read the Hiding Place to know more about her story) She wasn’t perfect. She certainly saw life in the concentration camps different than her sister Betsy who was much more accepting of God's will. In the end though she came to the realization that God was in control of all things and she was able to trust in him. While my life and struggles pail in comparison, I believe that life is a journey and it the struggles of life that help us to ultimately bring us around to full obedience and trust in God. Why did James in verse 2 of chapter one say to “count it Joy when you face trial of many kinds.” It is no because they are fun or enjoyable, but because of what the outcome will be. In the following verses. He goes on to say that trials develope patients and through patients we are made complete. It is when we realize this that we then can

Many of us in our life’s have difficulties with something we have or had to overcome to make us a better or a worse person. These are the trials in our life that makes us the way we are and shape our personal outlook of the world. Many of the most influential people such as Malcolm X, Martin Lurther King Jr, John Brown, and Michael Jordan has had some situations they had to overcome to be on top. Malcolm X couldn’t read until he taught himself how to, Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team, these are just little examples. The difficulties I had to overcome were mostly when I was a little kid in which I lived in Mississippi.

Today's reading began with how Hope sits down with one of her 11 scrapbooks, the one she calls The Dads scrapbook. The pages are filled with magazine pictures of men who looks like the father she’s been dreaming of in her head.She imagines having a conversation with her imaginary dad about not fitting in. She gets to work by 5:00 a.m. Braverman isn’t there yet and she admits that she misses him. The story was mostly about how when she was at work for the day she talks about how they were cracking jokes about how there is this show that flips sentences like “My uncle is a genius”.

However, many others, including Lily’s aunt, had unfortunate fates, but what mattered most was how they dealt with the situations presented to them. Despite her miscarriages and stillbirths, Aunt still manages to maintain a caring personality and positive attitude. “‘Beautiful Moon! Lily! Come

Not all stories, write about challenges but when they do the character reaches a point where they think to themselves. In “My People” by Margaret Peterson Haddix, and “Speech To The Young: Speech to the Progress-Toward by Gwendolyn Brooks discusses the importance of opportunity for young people who are growing up and searching for their identity. In both texts, they have characters that face challenges find a way to battle through them.

While Elyse is running for Explore Leader she has a very strong personalities. Elyse has a lot of traits. A trait that Elyse has is brave. She is brave because people always call her bad words and she has to held it. In Sticks and Stones it shows, ""… because I could already feel the words springing up under my clothes. AMAZING. INCREDIBLE. BRAVE." In other words, some people understand what she is going through, so they are being nice. But some people don't know what she is going through, so they being mean. This quote develops Elyse's character by revealing she can stick on for herself.

"Without a struggle, there can be no progress" (Douglassy). This quote can be related to by everyone. Everyone has struggles in their life that they have to get through to be able to make progress. Struggle are apart of everyone's everyday life. The only thing that matters is how you deal with these struggles.

Struggle life? You might tell me struggling isn’t happiness but I know that is happiness. That is happiness because my late father teach me that living in struggle is more happy than living in the place where you are like king. He always said that “if you don’t have enough food to eat, share

In the novel Krik? Krak!, Edwidge Danticat writes nine different short stories that showcase the lives of different haitian people and their experiences. A common theme that surfaces throughout each story is hope. The reactions of all characters to the terrible events around them are all different, yet Danticat wants to underline, that even though their struggles are different and they suffer in different ways, all of them still hold onto hope one way or another. Everyone deals with something that causes them to struggle, even in the midst of the hardships, they always cling onto some form of hope. Hope can be seen in many different forms throughout the novel, specifically four short stories “The Children of the Sea”, “A Wall of Fire Rising”,