Summer Reading Essay
English
Summer Reading Essay
“Whether or not an individual succeeds is unimportant. The very act of trying is itself a victory.” The quotation applies itself to a lot of things in life but the book Lush, by Natasha Friend, which is a realistic fiction and the book The Acorn People, by Ron Jones, which is a non-fiction really relate to the quote in a special way. This quote indicates that it does not matter if you succeed in what you are trying to accomplish, it only matters if you at least try to do it and that in itself is an accomplishment.
Lush relates to the quotation, ”Whether or not an individual succeeds is unimportant. The very act of trying is itself a victory,” because the main character, Samantha, is a very nice, compassionate, and loving daughter to her father. The only problem is she wishes her father was the same to her. Her father is an alcoholic and his alcoholic addiction has had a big impact on her life. Samantha is a teenager and she has been exposed to numerous things such as drugs, alcohol, and boys. All Samantha really wants is for her dad’s alcoholic problems to be gone so she can feel like she has a normal life. Samantha tries to help make her dad stop drinking she tells her friends that she left poetic notes in place of, her father’s liquor bottles and she says, “I know I am not going to win any poetry contests. At least I have tried ad at least he will find something if he goes looking for bottles.” I do believe that finding something is better then nothing. By leaving the notes, she is helping her father and helping herself at the same time. She is also taking a risk because she doesn’t know if these notes will make her father realize that he needs to stop drinking or he might get angered and take it out on her. It is more mentally dangerous for Samantha to do nothing and let things continue as they were then to at least write these little poetic notes and hope that he understands that he has a drinking problem. The only thing that
Summer Reading Essay
“Whether or not an individual succeeds is unimportant. The very act of trying is itself a victory.” The quotation applies itself to a lot of things in life but the book Lush, by Natasha Friend, which is a realistic fiction and the book The Acorn People, by Ron Jones, which is a non-fiction really relate to the quote in a special way. This quote indicates that it does not matter if you succeed in what you are trying to accomplish, it only matters if you at least try to do it and that in itself is an accomplishment.
Lush relates to the quotation, ”Whether or not an individual succeeds is unimportant. The very act of trying is itself a victory,” because the main character, Samantha, is a very nice, compassionate, and loving daughter to her father. The only problem is she wishes her father was the same to her. Her father is an alcoholic and his alcoholic addiction has had a big impact on her life. Samantha is a teenager and she has been exposed to numerous things such as drugs, alcohol, and boys. All Samantha really wants is for her dad’s alcoholic problems to be gone so she can feel like she has a normal life. Samantha tries to help make her dad stop drinking she tells her friends that she left poetic notes in place of, her father’s liquor bottles and she says, “I know I am not going to win any poetry contests. At least I have tried ad at least he will find something if he goes looking for bottles.” I do believe that finding something is better then nothing. By leaving the notes, she is helping her father and helping herself at the same time. She is also taking a risk because she doesn’t know if these notes will make her father realize that he needs to stop drinking or he might get angered and take it out on her. It is more mentally dangerous for Samantha to do nothing and let things continue as they were then to at least write these little poetic notes and hope that he understands that he has a drinking problem. The only thing that