It is important for people to overcome the obstacles they are faced with. Obstacles allow us to learn and become successful. In novels a character will often be faced with a problem. Just like a book, everybody has their own story filled with challenges. Recently I have read two novels that deal with sensitive topics and obstacles. Several years ago my grandma had very serious health issues. Each of these examples showcase the fact that it is important for everybody to experience obstacles in their life. In the novel “Cut” the main character, Callie deals with self harm. Callie has a younger brother who suffers from asthma and feels responsible when he has his first asthma attack. To deal with this traumatic event she begins cutting. After the school finds out, she is sent to a treatment facility and must overcome her problems in order to leave. With the help of her counselor, she is coaxed into revealing her true feelings. Sometimes in order to conquer a hindrance, we require help. By learning other coping methods she is able to finally give up her addiction. Self harm can result in death, so by overcoming this obstacle Callie saves her own life. This difficulty is a matter of life or death, much like the obstacle my grandma faced a few years ago. At the age of 58 my grandma collapsed on the floor of a grocery …show more content…
The novel follows a girl in heaven after her death. She must learn to cope with seeing her family from afar as they try to solve her murder. Susie must conquer the fact that she cannot reveal who murdered. Although her family is trying to heal, Susie feels unable to let go of her thirst for revenge. Eventually she is able to hold onto love instead of vengeance. In life we must understand that by breaking someone else, we won't fix ourselves. Her obstacles allowed her to learn that love can vanquish evil. Difficult situations are necessary in life and everyone goes through
She made the selfish, cowardly decision to commit suicide. This was during the time when her third husband and her child had passed away. She was also very poor, having spent all her money on fine living. Rheumatism and had been taking over her life, so she was taking morphine for the pain. One day she overdosed herself purposefully.
Words of Wisdom In the novel, Mammoths of the Great Plains, by Eleanor Arnason the story of Emma’s experience with her Grandmother Liza, who through stories, dreams, visions, and experiences of family members, imparts to her knowledge and certain values in a process known as enculturation. Some of the first instances of personal teaching comes across through stories of hunters. Although the story is about mammoths, I believe there is an obvious lesson about who you choose to be in this world and why that is important. For me, in the story of the two hunters, Liza uses this to teach Emma the value of respect, your word, honoring that word, treating others the way you would want to be treated, and the damage it can cause if you choose the
As the story progresses we come to understand the reason behind all of this. Unfortunately her home life is not the best as she lost her brother and her mother a victim of attempting
There, Callie met a group of girls who also struggled with their own harsh problems. The problems went from anorexia to drug abuse. The girls were each dealing with their inner problems which could have killed them.
Cut by Patricia McCormick is about a soft-spoken, shy, fifteen-year-old girl girl named Callie. Callie has been admitted into a treatment center called Sea Pines (although other residents would call it “Sick Minds”), a mental health facility because she self harms. It is assumed that the section that Callie is in is for young girls as none of the patients are male and one character mentions that is is 18. The book begins with Callie being told its up her to the talking and asked “Do you remember how it all started?” Callie then describes a day where she was a track meet and she wound up being in last, she didn't go t5o the end she instead cut through the woods she was running in to go home.
Several students ask who it is, unknowing that it is Jessica before the accident she was in. Jessica tells a lie and says that it is her sister, Anne. People wondered if Anne went to school with some of their younger siblings. Jessica adds to the story that Anne died and leaves the classroom for a burn treatment at the nearby hospital. After Jessica leaves, many students were making twisted stories of what they thought killed Anne and burned Jessica so badly.
Living in Conditions that Ultimately Made Them Stronger John Quincy Adams once stated, “patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” In the world today, obstacles have an impact on the way one goes about their respective life. These obstacles range from emotions to illness to social class. How one interprets those obstacles decides whether that life goes down as a success or failure. As a society, we often admire those who take their obstacles and use them to create a better life.
A combination of injuries that would leave anyone wishing for an end, except her. Instead of ending her life, she pushed forward and didn’t give up on herself and the doctors helping her. Though stuck in a hospital bed paralyzed, she still managed to fight the pain and pray for her own survival, “She had prayed that she would live through the fight” (80), “‘I never gave up faith I would be rescued, she said”’(114). She did not give up and try to take her own
On top of that, her sister spirawled into a severe eating disorder which she still battles with today. One can only imagine the changes these trails inflicted upon Haley’s family. As an eleven year old girl it must have been so hard to understand why things like this were happening to her. The addictions her siblings had created a rift in her relationships with them.
Callie has not talked since her tragic incident and she avoids talking to the others in group including her teachers. On her first visit he brother Sam and mother came but her father didn’t. Her mother told her that the insurance would not cover self-inflicted injuries and that she might not be there much longer. That night she used a pie slicer from lunch to cut herself this time losing more blood than usual.
Challenges are hard to face sometimes when you don’t put your mind to it. Everybody has to go through adversity, and at least once in their life have to overcome it. There are many different ways to do so. People overcome obstacles by facing their problems, accepting who they are, and being determined. First off, people overcome obstacles by facing their problems.
If her mother keeps telling her about the troubles that they are going through in detail, Callie can’t just forget that. After her mom says that, Callie spaced out, “I tried to concentrate on what the mother was saying... The mother’s mouth was moving but the character who was me was walking away” (18). She says this in a third person point of view as though she faded out of the reality, and watched herself get up. That’s when she walked into the visitor’s bathroom, and cut her wrist with the teeth of the paper towel dispenser (18), “There was a jab, bright beads of blood, and finally I was OK.”
Whenever she was allowed to get up from such tortious pain; her knees were swollen and cut up from the grits. On her birthday, she asked her father to buy her a charm bracelet and he wouldn’t do it. He was mean to her over the fact that she wanted something for her birthday. She had no friends, never invited to a
Overcoming obstacles is inherently difficult. For Salva, there are many factors that help him through his circumstances. Salva faced many challenges throughout the novel but Salva did not give up and always tried his best. Sometimes he would stumble and fall but he stood up again and kept trying. Some of us in the US doesn’t even know about what happened in Southern Sudan and the people who had to go through so much difficulties to survive.
In her experience, she faced numerous adversities, including becoming an orphan at such a young age, facing emotional and physical abuse, the loss of her first husband, and hair loss. However, she did not allow such circumstances to stop her from wanting more for her life (History.com Staff 2009). Along with hard work and perseverance she was able to overcome her adversities. In addition, her determination showed that you have to be ahead of the curve.