A Piece Of Cake: A Memoir By Cupcake Brown

Motivation, the thing that encourages or pushes us to strive for greatness, the thing that unknowingly forces us to give 110% effort, and the thing that usually comes from a support team. But what if there is no support team? What if there is not family that give you the encouragement you need to be great? Where does this motivations come from in teens? This motivation comes from inside of teens. They push themselves to be successful by giving themselves the confidence to do better, by wanting to be better than that next person, by doing what everybody says they can’t do. For my MGRP, I will prove the idea that teens can achieve greatness and become successful without support from others. Its hard to notice when teens are being self supported and motivated because most teens try to hide that their struggles but it happens a

This Memoir discusses the hard life Cupcake Brown lived. Brown was thrown into foster care at age 11, after her mother’s death (Brown). That same year she started getting raped by the the foster owner’s nephew (Brown). After multiple attempts of running away, She was brutally beat by all the foster children and the foster home owner’s daughter, which caused her to lose her baby at age 13 (Brown). When she turned 14 she ran away to her great aunt and 4 male cousins in South Central, Los Angeles (Brown). While in Los Angeles, she joined a gang which provided her with the love and protections she lack as a child (Brown). On her 16, birthday she was shot and was nearly paralyzed (Brown). Shortly after this she used the same motivation she had to run away to turn her life around and become the successful author she is today. Through all of her struggle she still found the strength from within to make something out of herself and become successful. This just proves that teens can motivate themselves by wanting to be better than their past