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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.

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

“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.

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.

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

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.

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

There was no avoiding it, and no forgetting. Words that quote what Melinda Sordino had said, after the realization that most things that happen to us, are entirely unavoidable, no matter how terrible. Everybody says “had I done this...” or, “If only she would’ve done that...”, but in all reality, that wouldn’t’ve worked out, no matter what (Okay maybe it could be possible with time travel, but that always ends horrible and fumbled in the end,). In the book Speak, By Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda Sordino is a depressed girl with a complex identity, shaped out through multiple internal and external factors, and to prove this, over the next few paragraphs you will be shown multiple examples in which she has been shaped progressively previous to, and through the story, that literally broke everybody's hearts.

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,

“But the sad truth is that the truth is sad, and that what you want does not matter. A series of unfortunate events can happen to anyone, no matter what they want.”(144) In Lemony Snicket’s series, the Baudelaire children come to realize that a series of unfortunate events can happen to anyone, and even children in happy families and loving homes. Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire experience three incredibly unfortunate events illustrating the central theme that bad things can happen to good people: nearly being thrown into a lion’s pit, stranded on Mortmain Mountain, and Sunny’s kidnapping. While these events that the Baudelaire children go through are difficult, it is essential to recognize that bad things happen to everyone, even the best

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.

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

She will never again roam the halls of her school and listen to the sound of her peers’ laughter; she will never again feel the bleak words that seemed to smother her--fat, ugly, nerd, stupid, pointless--being spat onto her face. Nadine will never again be tossed across the city to be brought to unknown strangers and left in foreign dwellings that never felt like home. The face of her last foster brother will never be seen again, and his rough and threatening hands will never once more create aching spots of blue and violet on her arms. However, Nadine’s fingers will never dance across the light keys of a piano again, the voice of the hummed notes calming Nadine’s nerves. Her feet will never again brush the ground so fast that they feel as if they are running on air. She will never walk across the stage and receive her diploma--her ticket to a future--or declare her valedictorian speech. Then again, what’s the point if you’ll be able to feel the vibration of the audience’s laughter and feel them throwing rocks of negativity in your mind, pulling your whole body into the core of the Earth? What’s the point if all the parents and teachers will do is voice their pity because you’re an orphan without a stable