This blog post is in response to blog prompt number 16. chapter 11
This year, we learned about different people and the paths they chose during their lifetime journey. The overall theme of the year was Who are you and what do you want to become? I think that reading about different people who followed their own dreams and tried to define themselves was really appropriate for this year, the senior and last year in highschool.
"It was as if Jesus himself were looking down on our sorry arses, he knew that we were goin' the wrong way, makin' signs for us to turn back but Mikey said never turn back when you don't have any reason to," page 254
The book Angela's Ashes is also about a journey of a young adult and the obstacles he faced and he grows up by surrounding himself with older kids, he's faced with the brutal truth that life isn't fair. He, like characters in other books we've read this year about journeys across the globe, has been introduced to new concepts and idea's in the world that help shape his own ideology.
I think that all of the books we've read this year had a kind of personal connection, because we are all in real life put in the same situations of trying to fit in, and trying to achieve our goals and develop our own path in life.
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