“You have to fight some of the bad days to have some of the best days of your life.” In the story Rudy starts off working in the factory with his dad and his brother was also working but here is when me and Rudy get alike, because he realizes that depending on his work ethic he would be leaving and going to attend Notre Dame University. The way this part of the story relates to me and my little story, because I know I can better my situation, but it all depends on my work ethic and my timing. Rudy had to put in more work than me because he had to work and save his money in order to switch his jacket and make his dreams reality and become a football player for Notre Dame. At that point Rudy realizes that he is not happy and he starts saving
The second strong line is: “And it was hate and rage towards abusive teachers that kept me going year after year…with the hope that one day I’d get published, and have a voice, so I could make difference down here in our hearts, and guts,” I said, grabbing hold of my own gut, “where we really live, if we’ve going to live a life worth living!” This strong line made me feel like Victor Villasenor have been through many abusive, bullied, from teachers and friends. However, he created hope in his life to motivate what he loves to do and defending himself through passion
To read a story that deals with this theme makes us realize that it is not everyone that can accomplish what they really want in their
When nothing is going right in life, what do you do? Do you just quit and hope for the best or do you pick yourself up and work even harder to succeed? Iliana Roman, a single mother of three children and an owner of a hair salon, kindles the message that individuals who face adversity can still persevere in life. According to Roman’s memoir “First Job”, it is never too late to turn your life around. At seventeen years, old Roman unexpectedly became pregnant. This event led to Roman’s life changing completely causing her to drop out of high school. She was nearly to the point of no return, she simply could not hold down a proper job, and the only way to support herself and her child is working three to four odd jobs every week. Roman presents her message of persevering in life by incorporating hyperbole, repetition, and pathos.
First, Rudy’s family didn’t believe in him. Rudy’s background was a struggle, because his family, especially his father, didn’t expect much from him, coming from a common family in a small town. His father expected for him to get a job at a local factory after his high school graduation and follow in his footsteps. He doesn’t believe Rudy will achieve his dreams. When Rudy returns home to see his family, they mock him for ...
Once, a wise soul has spoken, “Sometimes adversity is what you need to face in order to become successful”. Adversity means having troubles and difficulties. It’s what you need to persevere through in order to do something you’ve wanted to do for a long time. If you want to pass that test, you’ve gotta conquer your fears and fight through all the troubles that arrive in front of you. Become your own hero. Adversity is a situation that took place in the novel “The Outsiders”, by S.E. Hinton.
In the end of the story, Andrew’s dad helps Andrew be able to go to school. His dad says to Andrew, “Andrew you have to start school this Summer.” Andrew answers, “How?” His dad responds back with, “I don’t know but you’re going.” This shows how Andrew’s dad really believes that Andrew will go to school next Fall. It also shows how Andrew’s never gives up on Andrew going to school. He helps him by never giving up and making him go to school.
In the story “Block Party” by Walter D. Mayer, the story has elements that shows the difficulties of growing up as an teenager. One way it shows is through the characters. Peaches is kind at the end of the story. After finding out about the situation J.T. and his mom were in, she decide to give them some money. Peaches gave her $200 to JT and his mom, “Big Joe got them a little place on 141 street, across from a school. It wasn't no mansion but it was cool. Then Peaches gave them her whole 200 dollars wedding gift money, which JT said he would pay back but I know he didn't have a job (150). It shows that if you did something bad without knowing, there is always a way you can fix your mistakes. Even if you can’t fix your mistake completely, it’s better to do something rather than doing nothing and
Cedric was left behind by his education before college. He had alot of things to go through with his mom always struggling with payments. He had a difficult life lived in the ghetto his father was in jail but Cedric has a dream. His dream was to attend college a good one. He waned to accomplish his dream so bad that he worked so hard.
A twelve year old's life was turned upside down. This little boy named Ishmael Beah was running around with all his friends. Then suddenly people started coming into his village sad and scared. Ishmael Beah and his friends started running from the rebels that were at war with the government. He ends up getting caught and killing a lot of people. At the end of the story they go to rehabilitation center to put then back into the community. Never loose hope, people can change, everything bad comes to an end. Ishmael Beah uses imagery to teach us that we should never give up and try our best to the last moment to have hope, and to teach us to have strength in bad times and bad things make us stronger. This is about a boy soldier forced into the line of duty to protect his life and make it without dyeing. The lesson of resilience that Ishmael Beah is trying to teach us, is that you should never lose hope and always stay strong.
This story shows how a family stuck together in hard times with faith and hard work that they would get through it. Sometimes people may have the same opportunities, but it is very likely all will have different outcomes. The risky nature of Walter may have put the family in a bind with his investment falling through, but what they did still have was each other. At least now, Walter especially, has the opportunity to learn from his
For so long she has been around what she saw as the destination for her life, which was success and happiness, in the lifelong family friends the Lowells. She assumed they were just given this life without ever thinking they had to work as hard as she did to get there, consequently envy and resentment ensued. The resentment started with the whole family and then got more intense and personal when it came to the daughter of the Lowells, Parker, someone Andrea could identify with on a personal level. This story illustrated for us the unseen factors and repercussions that too much ambition to be accepted by anyone can have one's long lasting development into their own person. This journey to prove who you are to others can lead to intense emotions and motives that aren’t normal yours and can cause you to lose sight of the very person you’re trying to prove that you
The movie Rudy took place in Chicago in the 1970’s. Most young men in this time period grew up to work at the local steel mill; a job that requires little to no education. However, Rudy’s dreams were far beyond the small town he resided in. He dreamed of playing football for Notre Dame. But, in order to do so, he needed to improve his grades. The decisions he made and the dedication required to make his dream come true were ones that ultimately changed his life forever. In order to get his grades up, Rudy attends Holy Cross College, a community college nearby and saves up his money. In the long run, his actions paid off. He finally gets accepted to Notre Dame and successfully joins the football team. Although he never played a single second, he fought his urge to quit the team and stick it out for the rest of the year. After a season of riding the bench, Rudy at last went in for the final two plays of the Notre Dame vs. Georgia Tech game. He became the hero of the season when he sacked the opponents quarterback, allowing Notre Dame to take the win. Rudy declares, “Most people allow struggles and fear of failure to stop them. The key is to learn from your struggles and move on. Failures will make you stronger and give you the information you need to reach your Dream. Struggle will prepare you for success. Without struggl...
Nothing goes as planned and everyone always no matter what you do in life will always end up in the same boat. No matter what you do in life, what car you have, who you marry, how much money you made, everyone will all end up dying. This story had i think 4 or 5 stories of how noone has a perfect life, no one get exactly what they want and if they do it causes other people to be upset. Overall the story was extremely confusing at first but they made sense after you thought about the message they were trying to give. Noone is perfect and rarely do things go as
Okay. Tell me this. Tell me this. What did I spend my life doing? Was it so wrong what I did?” (Sherman, 58). Before Reuben loses everything, he is also overly self-centered and has strong pride. The pride comes from his distinguished status in upper-class society; however, he now realizes that his pride cannot bring any benefits for himself and the community. Meanwhile, he also figures out that the incorrect shared ideology in this society is the main reason that causes him to own the strong pride. It is unfair to judge one’s personality based on their economic conditions. As a result, he jumps out of his superstructure and talks to the one who is in a lower class for some useful advice. At this point, Reuben is asking for the answer, but he is actually aware that his strong pride is the wrongest thing which controls the first half of his life, which makes him living arrogant and lonely. Fortunately, he opens heart freely to others and asks for suggestions, which becomes his first step to approach true
I feel the moral of this story is that we have to live each day as if it were our last. For tomorrow is not promised to any one. And that the decisions we make are life-long and it is not possible to go back and re-live or change the past. Therefore since tomorrow is not promised and we can not go back to yesterday, we must live each day to the fullest with no regrets.