The Day Had Finally Arrived

A significant event in one's life forces a person to reevaluate their current situation and decide how they will adapt to a new situation, or cause them to look back on the steps they took to get into that situation. In life as well as in the literature Crosswalk In The Rain, and THE TENT DELIVERY WOMAN’S RIDE, people have to adapt to what is happening in their lives, despite conditions they may have been through in the past. In life at some point there will be crossroads that a person must cross, they can either look back at what they have done to end up in that position or they can look forward and see what they must do to continue moving forward.

“Journeys, planned and unplanned, are an inevitable part of life. Their consequences, foreseen or unforeseen, play an important part in a person’s growth.”

“The future was sunset; the past something to leave behind. And if it didn't stay behind, well, you might have to stomp it out. Slave life; freed life-every day was a test and a trial. Nothing could be counted on in a world where even when you were a solution you were a problem” (302).

School has just let out for summer. John has daily chores to complete to help his dad with the workload of the ranch. John liked the work on the ranch he had a love for the land and the horses. Between his girlfriend, mom, and sisters john felt overcrowded with women and wanted to be away from them. When john got into the truck to leave he tells his friend “...Women! Between Kelsey my sisters and my mom I haven’t had a peaceful minute in weeks!” John was ready for a change of scenery.

Nothing survives the span of time like coming of age and growing pains. It’s something every teen must endure to enter into the “real world” and claim their place in adult society. It doesn’t matter if one believes themselves to be upper class or lower class, popular or unpopular; every teen experiences the difficulty of growing up, and the struggle to triumph over high school. Though many try to rush this process some are in no hurry to join the ranks of adulthood and walk down the inevitable path that leads to becoming one’s parents. Because at one time or another most have exclaimed, “I will never be like my parents”. This is the underlying theme that binds together the characters in John Hughes’s film “The Breakfast

" I guess thats good enough. I know your mean ass don't do teams and things." He paused, laughing a little. I shrugged, I am my daddy's child. "Anyway, let me know when you get a job. If you keep it and start saving up me and you can go half on a car for you." He added, causing me to smile widely. Your girl been waiting on a car for the longest. Every time i bring up the whole car situation by dad was quick to steer me in the other direction. He claims its because he don't want his little girl to grow up. Getting my own car means I can drive right up out of his life. I swear he thinks he can get rid of me that easy. I'm gon' always be daddy's little

Throughout our lifetime we go through a variety of challenging changes that may affect our future, Joseph O'Connor, a Lee high school graduate, and I are just a few of many examples. In his article, “A View from Mount Ritter”, O’Connor shares a horrific life changing experience on a two-week expedition in northeastern California. O'Connor a regular stubborn teenager, gets trapped in a frightening storm on the second week with another expeditioner. As soon as the storm starts to calm they starts to search for the driest place to set camp, realizing it was the worst night of his life O’Conner decides to turn his life around by turning his poor academic grades around and deciding to go to college. O'Connor's purpose is to inform and educate his readers to realize how precious life is and how it should not be taken for granted. He supports his purpose with a personal experience, concluding with “No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and how dear to his heart and eye morning can be”. Based on O'Connor's experience and my own, the quotation reveals a truth, a truth that people must endure a struggle in order to appreciate one's life.

In our readings, the authors yearned for a more simplistic approach to life and looked back on their lives and wondered if they are living correctly. They had left the human restraints of society, that separate them from nature, to search for the answers that no one seems to have the answer to. “ I had crossed the highway, stepped over two low barbed-wire fences...” (Dillard 6) “I’ll

This displays that when a person is occupied by a set goal they could possibly miss vital lessons, visuals, opportunities, and experiences in life because they do not have enough time to stray from their path long enough to learn or see anything that might deter them (Frost,

Hannah looked at her dad with a smile of appreciation. “Well, alright.” Hannah said. Kim opened up the car and they got in. “All you have to do is give it your best effort, so if you

It was also 7:11 in the morning. The shop would be open soon. He begrudgingly rose and dressed. He made coffee and grabbing a Pop-tart and headed out to work. Current reality weighed on him, he felt dismal and slow. With a grandchild on the horizon it felt entirely unrelatable to him. He left his apartment and walking the seven blocks to work. He did this everyday despite having a car in the garage. He didn’t drive anymore because, his eyes had been giving him trouble. He was diabetic and poorly managed it. He was losing his eye sight because he decidedly chose to poorly manage himself.

In the Case of the Missing Time, Chet Craig, manager of the Norris Company’s Central Plant, deals with work overload and finds it difficult to complete many of the important tasks at work. He begins his morning by stating, “this is going to be the day to really get things done.” Yet, in spite of his intentions to accomplish the projects

.“Getting here from where I was as a child wasn’t just handed to me,” he explained, “It took a lot of hard work, dedication, and sacrificing not only time, but my energy, and everything that I lived for.” Growing up was one of the most difficult times of his life. On one hand, he had to deal with his alcoholic father. And on the the other, he had to manage never being able to see his mother, who worked 14 hour shifts daily. But, this absence of his mother actually became one of the biggest

Also in the story, Could You give me a ride, I would normally say, “I cannot leave now because my car is at the garage and my [father] is in a meeting until 7,” when I do not want to go outside and meet other people. If I would really want someone to give me a ride, I would say directly and politely that "If you can, could you please give me a ride? You do not have to if you cannot.” I am not embarrassed of not having a car or do not know how to drive and I do not feel disappointed if the other person refuses. Rather than being indirect

"How are going to get to school this morning?" Acknowledging that David has already left. I blank, and my face turns pale. There's no way I'm riding the bus. Not with that... thing could possibly be on it. Dad looks at me intently, noticing that I look a bit grim, he offers a ride.