Personal Narrative: Jessica's Journey

I had a personal connection with this passage as I am a runner myself. The feeling of jumping out of the blocks is adrenaline charged. It is exhilarating and nerve-wracking at the same time. To getting to the last corner, the last 50 meters, is where it’s so painful you just want to quit. You want to stop. But you continue to push yourself until you get over the finish line. As you get over the finish line and congratulate your opponents, you want to do it all over again. To have your leg and passion taken away from you is something I would never want. I wouldn’t wish that on anyone because it takes away so much, just like it did for Jessica.

The Running Dream takes place in a middle class neighborhood. In this story a highschool girl named Jessica is met with the traumatizing reality of losing her leg. Of Jessica's many qualities stubbornness stands out in her relationships with school work, friends, family, boys and her new running leg. As her track friends try to turn her life back around, Jessica finds out that she doesn't want to feel sorry for herself any more because she isn't just stubborn, afraid and doubtful - She is kind, strong, loving, hopeful and most all she is determined. She is determined to help her new friend Rosa. In this man-versus-self story Jessica finds her way as a car crash survivor, a highschool student, a

Jessica is a sixteen-year-old girl and a runner. Her whole life is running. She loves the sport and was a champion until there was an accident and she lost her leg. On the way back from a race, Jessica’s school bus was hit by a truck driver who was drunk. Her teammate Lucy, who was sitting right in front of Jessica died. Jessica was left with a horrible injury, her leg was lost. As Jessica is recovering from her accident, she learns to get help, believe in herself, she has a new special friendship with a girl with a disability, Rosa, and she finds a new

The book follows Jessica as she learns to live without one of her legs. At first she is so depressed that she doesn’t do anything but lay in bed day in and day out but with the motivation from Fiona and her family she starts going back to school and tries to live a normal life again. Her first day back to school she learns that she is going to have to sit by Rosa, a girl with cerebral palsy, in math class and is initially worried but as she gets to know Rosa she learns that there is more to her than she initially thought and Rosa gives her hope despite her own condition. Jessica’s track team is determined to get her running again so they begin fundraising to earn $20,000 to buy Jessica a running prosthetic. At first the task seems impossible, but with the help of Gavin, the boy of Jessica’s dreams, and his newspaper article the track teams mission starts to get noticed more and more and soon enough they raise the money for her prosthetic. With time Jessica learns how to run again and then decides that she wants to help Rosa be able to run with her too. She begins training every day for 10 mile marathon in which she plans to push Rosa in her wheelchair while she runs. This task seems daunting at first but Jessica never gives up hope and continues to push herself so that she is able to grant Rosa’s wish of running. The day of the race Jessica and Rosa have so many people there cheering them on and together Jessica and Rosa are able to cross the finish line and prove to everyone that their disability doesn’t define

Since her tragic accident, she has dealt with the physical consequences of quadriplegia: the daily pain, the frail bones weakened by lack of use, the danger of bladder infections, and the potential for pressure sores or a collapsed lung. Also, Joni is conformed to a wheelchair for most of her day and relies heavily on caregivers for some of the most basic tasks (“Sweet Surrender” 39). Upon being in the hospital and receiving her diagnosis, Joni went into a deep depression with the memories of asking her friends to assist her in suicide. She felt disconnected from life, but was encouraged by her close friend, Steve, who shared the Word of God with her. He often came by her side and they would study the Bible together. The question that often burdened Joni was: Why would God let this happen? She discovered that it was part of a big puzzle that changed her perspective of life (“Joni’s Life Story”). After two years of rehabilitation from her injuries, Joni was determined to make something of herself and to help others who were dealing with situations similar to hers. In 2010, Joni received a stage three breast cancer diagnoses. In an interview, she says her outlook of God's word had not changed and she goes back to certain Bible passages to bring her healing and hope. Yet again, Joni faced another life-threatening condition that could have taken her life. She kept trusting God and no matter what happened, she knew she

The book “On My Own Two Feet” by Amy Purdy and Michelle Burford is one the bestselling book that has sold millions of copies all over the U.S. This book is about how nineteen year old Amy Purdy contracted bacterial meningitis and had less than two percent of survival. While Amy was dealing through life and death, she was given a choice to live or to let go but if she decided to live there will live changing experiences that she will have to deal with throughout her life. Amy had decided to live. The tough part was she had to get her legs amputated.

When I was six I wanted to be Hannah Montanna. When I was 12 I still dreamed of becoming a pop-star, but figured I could have a second job too – just in case. I’m seventeen now and I’ve have read Maya Angalou and Ralph Waldo Emerson; I’ve studied American history, marvled at astounding scientific discoveries, and cheered for political revolutions. I've traveled to different states and analyzed geological features for the aesthetic beauty and for the geological history. I've done many things, the logical step here would be then for me to pick; speak or forever hold my peace, but in all honesty, I don't know what I want to be. My six-year old self would say it's because I've seen too much, I think it's because I haven't seen enough. I want to

This crushes Jessica because now she can’t walk, let alone run. Throughout the trailer, the music shows the emotional struggles she is facing, and the depressing pictures show how she is dealing with the fact that she may never run again. Further on in the story, another conflict occurs. The supportive track team has the idea to raise money to help Jessica run again by buying her a running leg. Their intentions are good, but $20,000 is a lot to raise. They hold various of fundraisers, but still come up short. Miraculously, a generous sponsor pledges to double however much money the team makes, resulting in reaching their goal. When Jessica gets her new running leg, a new conflict arises. She has learned to run with her new leg, but she decides to tackle the task of pushing Rosa in a wheelchair through a ten-mile marathon. She wants to do this to prove that she can run just like everyone else, and also to help Rosa experience the thrill of running for the first

In the video Catching Kayla, Kayla, a 14 year old girl in North Carolina struggles to run with M.S. Kayla struggle makes her not being to feel her legs after running. When she first started running, Kayla was one of the slowest runners in her group. But after trained she got to be one of the fastest girls in North Carolina! Since there is no cure to M.S so Kayla trained her hardest to get first at the national championships. Kalya running and practicing was important because she got out of her room and so somthing that makes her happy.

Where do I start? I saw A. And N. finally, after years of stress, I-we saw them. Us four saw her, but couldn’t do anything. So, A bad called Emily leaving her with a voicemail of her screeching laugh with a bunch of background noise. Found out that she was where the protesters were. So today at 12:20 AM I started the hunt. The one before Jessica’s consignment shop was where we thought she would be because we never checked that one. Crossing our fingers, we went into the rusty building. The smell of this place was as horrifying as the visuals. Rotten trees and moss that were never been touch for 10 years, it is visible. Since it was dark we used our phone flashlight but it was still quite scary for us. Well, here comes the part where everything falls apart. As we see a

A month after graduating from Sycamore High in Ohio, eighteen-year-old Jessica Logan went home one day and hanged herself in her room. Her phone lay on the floor by her feet.

Could you imagine a tiny woman, 5'1'' and 88 pounds, holding the women’s world record for 20000 meters, 25000 meters, 30000 meters, and 26.2 miles? Even though this woman, Tegla Loroupe, does not still hold world record for the marathon, she will always be remembered for her outstanding accomplishments. As a child, she had 24 siblings and her dad had 4 wives. Her talent was first noticed in school races, however her dad banned her from running because it was not ladylike. This did not stop Tegla, and she continued running. Initially, the Kenyan athletics federation were not too impressed with her because she was considered too frail. However, after winning a prestigious cross country race in 1988, this changed. She continued winning more and more races including in 1994, she ran her first major marathon in New

JESSICA MATTHEWS (late teens) storms out of her house after having an argument with her mother, DEBRA MATTHEWS, about her mother’s boyfriend, MARK. Mark can never replace her father. She throws her purse down. A nice ASIAN MAN with a dog picks up the purse and gives it back to Jessica. She apologizes to the man.

Yes, there are many things that I would have done sooner/differently if I would have know how helpful they were. I am the type of person who does not like to try new things or just get so ready for something new but not follow through. In the last month, I have started scheduling my time better. During my last few months in school I have had many bumps along the way. I had lessons on time management in the first few course, but didn't follow through with them. With the help of my career advisor,Jasmine, she has gave me tons of tips on managing schoolwork. If I had started a schedule in the beginning of school I woluld have not become so overwhelmed when unexpected things happend.

The last week of our last band camp, Jessica and I were standing in line waiting for our turn to march. Standing under the sun, I felt a painful sting in my eye but being myself I completely ignored it, but Jessica had previously told me to go to the nurse, but obviously I didn’t listen. As 15 minutes passed by, my vision slowly worsen and I started tearing up all over the place. Jessica gave me a “I told you so” look, and proceeded to push me out of the line, forcing me to go see the nurse. Although I didn’t leave willingly, this just shows how caring and amazing Jessica Lam is.