Final
Austin

The quote I am choosing is “We acquire the strength we have overcome” by Ralph Waldo Emerson. I chose this quote because in order to learn and grow we have to overcome our challenges and learn from what we have done.

In Persepolis, Marjane started out being spoiled by her family in a nice place and having nice things. While she was growing up her country started to get attacked and her views began to change. Marjane Moved to Austria on her own and started learning who she is. She chose some wrongs and some rights. She tried being a nun, a punk, a druggy and lots more! While she was overcoming her challenges and learning who she is she grew older too. With time we can learn who we are by what we’ve done.

Marjane’s family and friends in Persepolis also contribute a huge part to who she becomes. Whenever Marjane was having problems she would think about her grandmother. Her grandmothers’ advice helped her to learn and understand things that were happening to her. When she was in the diner eating and all of the people were talking about her saying how she never says where she’s from and that her parents didn’t care she finally realized that she’s Iranian and there is nothing she could do about it. She was proud of that fact though.

The God character in the book that visits her at night is more just her thinking to herself in my opinion. God helped her solve her problems and learn new things by her past actions. She got mad at him once because He didn’t satisfy her questions, so he disappeared for a while until she began thinking about things again. The only one who understands what you need is usually you. You have to learn and grown from the failures and success’ in your life.

Narrative Introduction

Everyone has there happy place. J Mine is music. Music is a powerful tool. It can be used to take us places where this world does not have. Also, the lyrics in music are usually powerful and are full of reason and passion. For everyone the meaning is different. In different genres of music there are a lot of cultures. Rap can be from the “ghetto” and Indie music can be from the “rich”. Either way they both have the same things in common. They both have meaning and passion. Someone put a lot of thinking into what they were coming up with. The environment can affect the lyrics that people use. My personal favorite genre of music is Rock! I like it because it’s not to heavy but it’s not to soft. It’s (to me) energy packed. It takes me to a good place!

Austin

Failing

Most of the time I fail in my classes. I’m not a stupid kid. I’m just lazy, and I know it. I wonder why I am always so lazy, but maybe I need to start growing up and realizing that if I don’t do my work I won’t graduate! I’m not doing the best, but I am working on it now. I messed up. My grades probably won’t get me where I wanted to go in life. I don’t want to go to school again next year. I don’t want to upset my mom. I just need to slap myself. I’m glad that the teachers here at summit will let me catch up though. I appreciate it a lot. I take it for granted, but I really am grateful. Summit has become a good school to go to for a reason, it’s good to catch up with. I also always think that I’m going to get somewhere but I cant if I don’t do anything. I’m going to start doing better by doing my work when I am supposed to. I need to become the person I want to be.

Austin