Final Memory

In the book " The End or Something Like That" the main chaacter Emma could not let go of her old life. The conflict being of letting go and always remembering the memories she had with her bestfriend. With that conflict she lied, and sometimes couldn't understand what was going on, whether to do something or not, and even asking herself, where she was at the point. Not saying in a way where the death of her bestfriend wasn't letting her move on, losing someone is hard and I understand as well as many other do. The hardest step is accepting they're gone & that's what Emma just about had a problem with. She couldn't let go of her old life, couldn't accept that it was time to move on and continue to try and be happy. Overall, she did overcome this conflict, but to this day many suffer thru it & are in Emma's or were in her shoes. The conflict is relatable, and very trus. Moving on isn't easy, but neither impossible.

Saying I Wouldn't

In the book "The End Or Something Like That" by Ann Dee Ellis, Emmy recently had lost her friend and also a teacher, although she didn't think Ms. Homeyer was kind. " I wasn't going to go to Ms. Homeyer's funeral." " Why would I go to her funeral?", "but for some reason, I felt like I had to go. Like I was supposed to go". So then Emmy did end up going with her two classmates that were also in Ms. Homeyer's class. Emmy knew it was the right thing to go to her funeral, but she felt like she had done a lot to hurt Emmy, but she wasn't all bad. Although though, she was saying one thing to herself about not going, yet she went. That then just tells me that she isn't a bad person, that she knows what's right from wrong, and if she feels like she has to do something she isn't exactly fully comfortable with, she faces it and sucks it up. As a character in the book she seems to really think one thing to herself but ending up saying another. So showing then, she thinks before she speaks and goes over what she's about to decide on and not make the wrong choice.

Learning to live

In the book " The End or Something Like That" by Ann Dee Ellis, two friends that planned to have forever together, didn't. Kim the friend of the main character Emmy, had passed away, leaving Emmy with many unanswered questions. "Why Kim" "how did she know it was gonna happen". The message I was able to get through this book was that sooner or later you'd have to let go, and learn how to live being happy. Emmy thinking to herself that Kim wouldn't have wanted her down all the time trying to change things from her perspective, but couldn't. I was able to understand that you have to learn to live without some certain people but always know that they are there. That's simple and maybe too easy for an amazing books like this but, it's true. Learning to live on with life might be hard but isn't impossible, you should be happy and always know that they are they with you in your heart.

Marbles

Shyima Hall was an eight year old girl who was later sold into slavery. She was mistreated, abused, and her justice was not given till she later grew. Shyima had been staying with her captors "The Mom" and "The Dad". She wasn't able to play while she stayed with them, but she remembered one game she considered herself good at, was "Marbles". "To play we drew a circle in the dirt or outlined a circle on the street with chalk. Then each of the players put some marbels inside the circle. When it was my turn, I'd take a slightly larger marble and try to knock some of the others out of the circle. Any marbles that I knocked out, I got to keep. I had a lot of marbles!" said Shyima. So even when Shyima was suffering through the thoughts she was, this memory meant so much to her because she remembers that being one good part of what she was able to live. That "memory moment" was something she came to remember while seeing the kids that she took care of play, also proved how different they were.

" Why, why, why"

                                       

Shyima Hall, also known as Shyima El-Sayed Hassan from the book "Hidden Girl" by herself with Lisa Wysocky,  was an eight year old girl from Alexandria, Egypt. Shyima was given into slavery for a debt her sister Zahra had caused, but although Zahra caused it, Shyima was the one to pay. A day came around where Zahra had caused far too much trouble for " The Mom & The Dad ", the owners of the household. Shyima & her mother had made the decision to swing by, around the wrong time. " The Mom " & Shyima's mom had come to an agreement " that the fair thing for everyone was for another girl to work in Zahra's place." , " the pit of my stomach lurched when I realized the girl they were talking about was me", Shyima said to herself. " Why did my mother not say no?" " why did she not fight for me?" , Shyima told herself over, and over again. Later on as she began working in the house hold day & night she'd continue asking herself, "why me". She was only eight years old and she had been given to pay off a family grief her sister had caused, " I was expected to become their domestic slave". Shyima just wasn't able to find the answer, at least for now. It was a hard question, with even an harder answer.

Emma's Reaction.

                                

In the book Blind, Emma Sasha Silver the main character suffers from an accident of her being blind, which causes her to have a lot of confusion with not only herself but with others & frustration. In the book her family tried to help her overcome and help her adjust with the incident she had suffered. In the book Emma has a hard time trying to accept the fact of her being blind along with many personality issues. Her family as well has a rather had time adjusting so they try their best in finding ways that they could help. In one scene of the book her father tries to convince her that going back to school was something that had to be done sooner or later, her mother on the other hand said with time she could go back when she felt ready. With frustration Emma replies angrily or with frustration, "I'm not going anywhere"  and sends her dad off with a feeling no parent wants to be given which is not being wanted in general nor the help. I question myself why she would respond this way to her parents because I get that out of frustration she might have said the things she said and gave them that feeling, but why would you want to reject or deny help from someone else that actually really cares about you? Why didn't she give it off to other people who maybe we're just showing pity? That is just a question that pops up in my head every now and then, because a lot of people are like that, but many don't suffer from the same incident Emma did. 

You Will Never See Me Fall & Blind.

The book Blind by Rachel Dewoskin and the poem You Will Never See Me Fall by Joyce Alcantara both contain a type of thought where both of these authors had the idea of them giving up, wasn't going to be in the picture. The book contains a 15 year old girl who suffers from the incident of her being blind, in the poem it says no where that she/he is also blind, but not stating it doesn't mean it isn't implied to that person too. In both writings they both struggled, with reading the book Blind, Emma was suffering with her adapting to the new lifestyle she had to get used to because of the situation she was in. Not clearly being stated what struggles the person in the poem was going thru, but as said " you may see me struggle, but you will NEVER see me fall" states that she must've been going for thru her own type of problems but not maybe alike to Emma's obstacles. Comparing those two, I found that they both struggle but try to not have the world "fall" or "give up" in the picture. They might've had different type of problems, but both "struggle" and don't give up.