Mistakes In Nicola Yoon's The Sun Is Also A Star

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Humans make mistakes, and these mistakes become essential so they can learn, and also, so that they can grow. Nicola Yoon’s The Sun is Also a Star tells the story of Natasha and Daniel spending the day together and along the way, meeting many different people. Each of these people have made a mistake and have learned a lesson from it. In The Sun is Also a Star, characters such as Samuel Kingsley, the waitress, and Joe learn the importance of their actions, of family, and of moving on in life because of their mistakes. Samuel Kingsley discovered that his actions affect more than just himself after he tells a police officer about his undocumented family. Samuel Kingsley and his family illegally immigrated to the United States from Jamaica due to him wanting a career, and then Samuel one day tells a police officer about how his undocumented family, which causes Samuel’s family gets deported. He tells him family “I was just drunk coming off the stage high, (287)” but his family, still extremely affected by his decision, will not forgive him that easily. Natasha, Samuel’s daughter, tells how his mistakes affected her life and ruined her future. Samuel learns that his decisions impact not only himself, but those close to him. As Natasha says, “People make mistakes all the time, (328)” and his family starts to forgive him. …show more content…

The waitress cut off contact with her son, and this happened because of her disapproving of his interracial relationship, and she completely ignores his presence in her family. Now, her son got married and has a child, and she wasn't present for any of these life moments. “We don't talk and I miss him, (160)” she says. She regrets having to cut off contact with her son, and she wants to parent him like she used to, so she feels angry and says that “this country try to take everything from you.

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