Ms. Annie's Short Story, New Directions

Sometimes in life when you find that times are difficult to get through, asking for others help might be a wise choice. However, always relying on people will cause you to forget what you can accomplish by yourself. You need to rely on your parents during childhood, but when people grow up and become independent, they need to start doing things by themselves. When changes occur in your life, the only thing you can depend on are your own skills. You can improve your life if you stop relying on others; therefore, you will become more independent.
In the story “New Directions”, Ms. Annie needs to care for her two children, so she needs to depend on her husband to earn money. However, she needed to start earning money herself because her husband left her to go to Oklahoma. She quickly started to think of her abilities and make plans. She thought of selling fresh and hot food to the hungry workers. Obviously, Ms. Annie’s meat pies were more attractive to the workers than the crackers and
Annie, sometimes in life you will need to solve problems and make decisions all by yourself. Imagine if you need to go to a city that you are unfamiliar with by yourself to find a job or go to university, and you have only a little money. This is a common situation that many university students and adults need to face. Students have the support of their parents, but when you get to work, life only gets harsher. Ms. Annie was in a familiar situation with her husband leaving her with two children, and she didn’t have a job. In her life before, she only needed to do the housework and care for the babies, and her husband earned the money. Without her husband, she didn’t have a way to earn money, and her husband took most of the money in the house. Obviously, everything seemed so miserable and hopeless. If she didn’t choose to step on a new path and open her store, her life would be completely different. However, she used her own skills to find a new path, and she