Jackie Robinson Turning Point

Landon
A turning point is an impact or a quick turn in somebody’s life. People face turning points every day, but it’s not often that these turning points change their lives as well as the world they live. Jackie Robinson, Feng Ru, and Gary Paulsen from the excerpts “ I Never Had it Made”,” Father of Chinese Aviation” and “Guts” all faced a challenging event that had an impact on their life and their country. Jackie Robinson was the first African American to play Major League Baseball. This was not an easy task for him to do. People judged him and didn’t like him by the color of his skin. Jackie Robinson said “The hate mail piled up” (Robinson). That shows that no one cared to give him a chance to play in the Major League. The innocence of young kids had a great inspiration on Jackie Robinson because they didn’t care about his color they just wanted him to play good. Jackie Robinson was “proud to be a part of a significant breakthrough” (Robinson) in breaking the color barrier. Even though Jackie Robinson has been through

Gary Paulsen was a medic that experienced many tragedies. While he was on his free time he made books for kids to read. While Gary was a medic, he “answered many calls to highway wrecks, farm accidents, poisonings, gunshot accidents, and many, many heart attacks” (Gary) All of these impacts affected him in many ways. Gary Paulsen had a lot of experiences with people dying from heart attacks. Gary experienced a heart attack victim dying while the victim was looking right into Gary’s eyes as he passed away. This tragedy led up to him to write Hatchet. The book Hatchet was written because despite all of his tragedies he experienced that this was the first time seeing someone die in his own hands. These and other impacts on his life made him the famous writer he is