Mazyck

The article, “A Chance Encounter, A Lasting Bond,” by Alex Tresniowski, discusses how two people can make a change in each other’s life, Maurice Mazyck, an 11-year-old who stands on the block asking bystanders for spare change. Laura Schroff, a successful newspaper executive, she was walking down the street when she passed Mazyck. Schroff grabbed Mazyck to take him out for lunch; since then they have made differences in each other’s life while they become best friends. Through Mazyck relationship with Schroff he acquires a whole new perspective on life and what it is like to be cared for, Mazyck also gains the opportunity to have a better life and receive the mother figure he deserves in Schroff.

There are still people in this world that care; Mazyck perspective on what people thought about him changed because of Schroff. When Schroff came looking for Mazyck at the spot they met, Mazyck was blown away, because Schroff shows him that she cares about him.
Mazyck never knew an adult who had a job so he did not know how to become a man. Mazyck went to North Carolina to try and set up his own business, yet Mazyck came close to selling drugs like his family had done in the past, but then he thought about Schroff and everything she had done for him. Mazyck resisted the temptations to sell drugs for easy money. Mazyck wonders if he would be here at all if it was not for everything Schroff did for him, because of her he says he made the right decision. Mazyck acquired the opportunity to have a normal life and make money the legal way.

A person can make an enormous difference in someone's life. As seen if it was not for Schoff, Mazyck would have made poor decisions rather than heathy decisions. He did make those substandard decisions thanks to Schroff. Altogether Mazyck gained the opportunity to have a normal life and a mother figure in Schroff who shows Mazyck a new perspective of being cared for by another human