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Importance Of Hope In My Life

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“Now be the person you are now and who you will always be.” I have changed, and now I have more hope in myself because of Charlie and his family being poor to owning something that is $1,000,000 millions of dollars. Charlie helped me believe to have faith and hope in any situation, which has changed me a lot. I was worthless by Mr. Wonka’s father treating him because I remember. I was disappointed by Mr. Wonka not talking to his dad. My family is going through what Mr. Wonka was going through. My family is not talking to each other because they got in a fight, which I am not old enough to know what it is yet, but I know it’s bad. I am the only one trying to make my family a “family” again, but it is not helping. It is just getting worse. I changed my thinking to where nothing can go back to normal in my family, but I can change for my family to come back to normal. I changed my thinking also to where I look at a situation like mine to where it is my family is not trying to make more conflict between each other but starting new again with each other. My family started a fight 3 years ago, which has changed my life a lot. I don’t get to see my cousins that often, and I never see my uncle and aunt anymore unless it’s Christmas or Thanksgiving. I never thought that I would have such a hard time with this like Willy Wonka did. Willy and I have a lot in common because his father and Willy don’t get along like my family is not getting along. I never thought that one little

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