Overcoming Obstacles
Overcoming Obstacles Everyone in the world has had to overcome some kind of obstacles in their life. Obstacles can be a very small or even a very big thing in our everyday lives. For example, an obstacle could be if you have enough money to buy milk to having to overcome being homeless and struggling to get through life all alone. People typically learn from their own life obstacles or maybe even from reading about someone else’s obstacles in their life. Nobody wants to have to overcome any obstacles or have any troubles in our lives but it is just a part of making our lives better from what it was like before. I have learned about many obstacles from many books and movies such as: The Mighty, Of Mice and Men, and A Child Called “It”. In the movie The Mighty both of the main characters had to overcome their own obstacles but they had each other to get through them. Maxwell Kane had to go through his own father killing his mother and going through his childhood without any parents. He lived with his mothers parents that he calls them “Gram”, and “Grim”. Max is illiterate and has failed 7th grade twice. He was told to take tutoring for reading, his tutor was a kid named Kevin. Kevin Dillon, who wears leg braces and uses crutches, suffers from Morquio 's Syndrome, which causes physical growth to stop after the age of six. Kevin gets picked on constantly at school for his disability and being a “nerd”. His nickname from the group of school bullies is “Freak”. Kevin had to deal with his medical condition when unfortunately he had died while he was in the process of getting a new reconstructed body.
"I had hoped he was taking me to some kind of jail, with all the other bad children as Mother had programmed into me for so many years.", those were the words from the twelve year old abused little boy named Dave. Dave James Pelzer was another person who has overcome an obstacle in his life but he made his public and used his to educate people. Dave was born in
"I had hoped he was taking me to some kind of jail, with all the other bad children as Mother had programmed into me for so many years.", those were the words from the twelve year old abused little boy named Dave. Dave James Pelzer was another person who has overcome an obstacle in his life but he made his public and used his to educate people. Dave was born in
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