Lolo Jones Short Story Analysis

From the time a child is born to the day that they die, they will be told countless times to dream big. People tell them to reach for the stars and pursue the things that make them happy. Something they do not tell them is how powerful failure can be; how it can alter a person’s perspective on life and the direction they think they need to go with their future. Ever since I was a little girl my life’s goal in the FFA was to become a State FFA Officer. The concept of being able to positively impact someone’s life and promote an industry that I believe in whole-heartedly got my blood pumping. I was not prepared for failure, I only thought about success.

Making it through hard times is challenging but worth it at the end. “Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret to success.” - Swami Sivananda

Everyone has experienced adversity at one point in their life, whether it be a final exam or staying strong while you're going through a rough time. As for many, they assume that running from their problems is the easy way out when in fact running from your problems may seem easy at the time, but is a race that can never be won. Instead, we need to face our problems straight on, because the feeling of conquering a challenge gives us an unexplainable feeling of success. Through the character Mrs. Taylor, Author Hugh Garner depicts how facing hardships head on, leads to the feeling of accomplishment in his story, “A Trip For Mrs. Taylor”. Based on the story and a personal example it's evident that when an individual faces adversity, they strive to overcome challenges which leads to the rush of success.

Today, I eat lunch with friends, I find comfort in my clubs, and sometimes, I fail. When I lived in Florida, I never had to cope with failure, as everything came to me easily. What I know now is that failure is an unavoidable aspect of life, and I know I’ll encounter it wherever I end up. When I moved up the East Coast, I learned how to face failure head on and accept that there are days when I can’t be perfect. But I am now able to learn from my failures and keep them in mind when moving

“Hard times are about losing spirit, and hope, and what happens when dreams dry up.” (225) In the novel Out of the Dust by Karen Hesse, Billie Jo, a young girl living in the Oklahoma Panhandle, finds herself in a tough situation when she sees her mother, the “glue” of her family die, and her beloved farm fail. This situation causes Billie Jo to look for hope to help her get through this tough stage of her life. Similar to Billie Jo, during a person’s life, when he or she is in a hardship or in a tough time, usually, the only thing that gets them through is hope.

One thing that is important to know is that when things get tough to carry on. During tough times most people get lost in the bad things that happened, but what they should do is keep going and realize that things will get better. In NightJohn by Gary Paulsen, shows that people can preserver through tough time and keep going.

“There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time,” Malcolm X, and activist overcame adversity by learning from his defeat. Adversity affects our world today too. With our harsh rules and drive to be better, one must strive to succeed and overcome the hardships. While there are many qualities needed to overcome adversity, having faith, keeping composure, and receiving support are vital in order to overcome adversity.

Do you have those times where it becomes really hard and you just want to give up? Do you ever say that you can't do something because it seems to hard? If you give up in life you won't succeed and get very far. You shouldn't say you can't before you even try. Also, you won't accomplish any of your dreams that the world

At some point in the many journeys we embark on in our lives, we get to a part where we feel like giving up. Sometimes we give up just before we are about to make that huge breakthrough that we have been putting so much

While it is important to see this as a lesson to never give up, it is also important not to view this as the way of living. Amber Buckley once said, “If you have money but you don't have people

“We will have difficult times. We’ve had difficult times in the past. We will have difficult times in the future.” Eulogy from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.(36-37) The quote shows that struggles will never stop coming our way, but that does not mean you should give up- do not lose hope, face your challenges head on. You have to demand for your freedom because nobody else is going to stand up for what you want. Freedom can be achieved through determination because when you have a set goal in your mind, nothing is going to stop you from attaining it.

Life is challenging; it has ups and downs and curveballs. Sometimes we get tired of working when nothing seems to get better. When faced with a challenge, we have one option: go for it. We can’t control whether we will succeed, but we definitely won’t make it if we don’t try or if we quit. Many people don’t have the grit to keep trying in the face of failure.

In life we encounter trials and tribulations that cause us to become stressed, bitter, depressed, and sometimes, on the verge of giving up. We may even want to give up a dream that we have worked our entire lives to accomplish. These difficulties can seem as if they are holding us back when they are actually building us into the people that we will aspire to be. Life can sometimes be full of large obstacles, but with persistence and ambitious minds, we can exceed our own expectations. By learning to overcome these obstacles we can learn to grow and thrive. In order to do this, I believe, persistence and hard work is crucial.

consequence, she decided to send her young daughter, Grace Blanket, to live with her cousin, Moses Graycloud, and his wife, Belle Graycloud, so as to know about the white world. Later, Lila sent her two twin daughters, Sara and Molene to live with Grace and go to school. Molene died due to ''an illness spread by the white men who worked in the railroad'', and Sara became paralyzed (Hogan, Mean Spirit 7). In the early 1900s, each Indian had been given the choice to select any area of land not claimed by the white Americans to farm or sell. After finishing her study, Grace and Sara ''in total ignorance, selected dried-up acreages that no one else wanted. No one guessed that black undercurrents of oil moved beneath that earth's surface''. After being called ''The Barren Land, Grace called it ''The Barron Land'' upon discovering that it was rich with oil (Hogan, Mean Spirit 8). After becoming the richest Osage woman, Grace was murdered by the oil man, John Hale, who sought to control her land. The Grayclouds adopted Nola, Grace's young daughter, who witnessed her mother's murder. Nola suffered for years due to the tragic loss of her mother.

In life, we all go through challenges and it’s either we face them or walk away from it. Growing up, people will always have different ways of handling things that happens in their life. We can’t know what could happen and how we handle it because life is unexpected. As I see it is that if you tend to keep making the same mistakes, you’ll never get passed your past and if you learn from all of your mistakes, you can move forward with your life. Everyone has faced their challenges in their own way and not everything in life will be easy because I can tell you right now that no one’s life is perfect. Everyone has their flaws, but they're perfect in their own way possible.