Stand Tall Analysis

Has a life experience ever change how you think about things? Well, you can see this clearly in two books. Life's journeys change us by making us stronger and wiser. People get stronger emotionally and physically. This change can clearly be seen in Stand Tall by Joan Bauer and Hollywood Hustle by Gordon Korman. These two books have specific examples in which the two characters go through situations where they realize things they didn’t notice before. In the book Stand Tall, Tree goes through some events that lets him experience life’s journeys.

The first example of life’s journeys is in the book, Stand Tall, by Joan Bauer, is that Tree learns emotionally that family matter most and there is always hope. For example, Tree’s two parents, who are divorced, gets together for a night. “Mom and Dad smiled at each other and laughed. It was a sound that Tree hadn’t heard from them in the longest time” (132). This shows how Tree wasn’t sure his parents were ever going to get along again, but they end up having a good time. This is an example of how family matters most and hope is always around. This situation gave Tree strength to preserve. A different place in the book where Tree learns that

Things can change us by hurting us emotionally or physically. Tree had gone through many tragedies in his life to learn that there is always hope and family is very important. Vince learns that family comes first. If these two characters didn’t learn or experience these things they may have not been able to make the same decisions as they did after the events occurred. These things helped Tree and Vince learn about life’s journeys and how they change many people. These two books share the same message about life’s journeys because people may go through different struggles but the result may be similar. Different messages can be seen throughout many books because life can give you the same results or different