A Responce To A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
The woman and her children huddle together under a worn, ragged blanket. It’s getting dark out, and the nights in winter are bitterly cold. However, things may turn out better for this family than others, for these poverty-stricken people have something that nobody else has: hope. Hope is something you hold onto when there’s nothing left. Hope is the luminous candle burning in the night. While sometimes the faith of the people is overshadowed by uncertainty and doubt, one hope alone may save you from destruction and insanity. If you hold on to your hopes and dreams, the world will be a brighter, happier place to live in.
Francie’s life is filled with uncertainties. Will her family come out of poverty and make enough money to keep their house? Will she and her brother, Neeley, grow up and have families of their own? It takes a lot of hope, faith, and trust to overcome these situations. If people didn’t have hope, there wouldn’t be anything left to look forward to. People would stop trying, believing strongly in the lie that nothing will get better, that everything they wish to achieve is just a far-off dream, nothing more. Depression and hopelessness would consume the world.
Keeping your hopes alive and vividly trying to achieve them is perhaps one of the most important things you can do in your lifetime. No matter how little money you have, how much you’ve lost already, or how utterly devastating your circumstances are, if you have hope and faith that everything will turn out alright, you will carry on. Your world will be a bright place filled with light, even if all you have is that one small candle.
I really like the way you talk about having hope and essentially staying positive when life isn't easy. You know all too well that one can't dwell too much on the negatives we face in life and that staying strong while having faith that things will all work out is what often gets us through. I am so proud of you.
ReplyDeleteThe way you wove a fictional narrative voice with your prose captures the essence of the experience in the novel. Reading your response invokes the same feelings and thoughts the text brings out of the reader. When you compose your next response, weave more text evidence, supplying specifics that support your claim, or give evidence to make your point. Excellent job.
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