Short Story 'Remembering All The Boys'

The second story I chose was “The God who Embraced me when Daddy Disappeared”. The story is about a kid who grew up without a dad. His father was arrested when he was younger and never came back. Then, one day he passed away and the man told him everything and told him how God was his father and how he grew up without him. This story affected me by showing me that even if you don’t have someone in your life that you need, you will always have God. I liked how he was in a bad situation and put everything aside and put it in God’s hands. The third story I chose is “Remembering All the Boys”. This essay is about a sister whose brother died from a gunshot. He was in the blue gang when the red gang shot him. She believes in everyone should have
flowers on their gravestones. She would take flowers to his gravestone everyday, then she noticed that the graves around her brother’s grave had no flowers. So she started bringing more flowers with her friend and putting them on their gravestones, even though she noticed that they were apart of the red gang who shot her brother. I chose this essay because it was a different type of story yet still showing what someone believes in and also this essay was very interesting. This essay affected me by showing me that no matter the circumstance you should not treat people different. I liked this essay because while showing hatred by two individual groups it still shows that some people are caring and don’t care about the differences.