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Life Doesn't Go as Planned Life is strange, sometimes sad, sometimes joyful; and then sometimes life doesn't cooperate with us, no matter how hard we fight. A novel, The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint, by Brady Udall is about a boy who gets his head run over by a mailman, which sent him into a downward spiral. The central themes in this book are the struggles and unrelenting human spirit. Edgar, wistfully, is sent to a lot of places, plus loses his family members. Although fate struck him during the accident, Edgars destiny was to keep going and not to give up in life. Life is a maze, if you take the wrong turn life becomes difficult. Therefor, people struggle, Edgar Mint is an indian kid who is run over by a mail man truck. Sending him into the hospital. The hospital to him was very calming. Later he get let go by the hospital and then is sent to an Indian school. There, his life goes downhill. The struggle of being bullied and picked on for being the new kid in the school is evident: “I determined right then that there was no way I was going to allow him to put that turd in my mouth. I set my teeth so hard that my head began to ache” (Udall 105). This is disgusting, but not unusual for the kids who do this because every new kid is either pressured to do something gruesome or beat …show more content…

Edgar Mint struggles so much because he gets ran over by a mailman's truck and went into a coma. He is spared in life after he was ran over by a mailman: “ Doctor named barry Pinkley who decided he was going to bring me back from the land of the dead. Any other doctor would have taken one look at me, recorded an approximate time of death and called the hospital” (Udall 24). there is a good side because the doctor did not give up on Edgar even though he was in coma for a month. This gave Edgar hope to wake up from the coma. It gave him hope because of the nice people he was surrounded

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