Over coming Adversity and Challenges
By Nick

“We acquire the strength we have overcome”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

This quote applies to Persepolis because Marjane goes through almost everything you can go through as a kid and a teenager, between drugs and war to being cheated on by her boyfriend. After all she goes through in life she pulls her self together and overcomes her challenges and pulls through all her adversities. She turns her life around and becomes something better then some people thought she was going to be, she wrote a graphic novel.

The quote applies to Hotel Rwanda in a way even greater then Persepolis. Paul, the manager of the hotel saves tons of refugees from death by taking them into his hotel and risking his life by making that choice. The challenges he had to overcome were the fact that he is risking his and his family’s life for the refugees. I believe that at the end of the movie he wouldn’t care if he died as long as those women and children lived, and that made him the strongest man in the world.

In Swing Kids the main character overcame adversity by swing dancing even though it was strictly illegal and could get you sent to a work camp, the challenge he overcame was being a Hitler youth and hating it. Even as a Hitler Youth he still did swing dancing and he was arrested for it and sent to a work camp, when he was in the truck on his way to the work camp he stands up and yells “Swing Heil”. Which shows even in a very dark time in his life he still overcomes adversity.