STORY vs. ESSAY

A few days ago, I saw To Save A Life in theatres. The truth it reveals about life is: how you treat others always comes back around to you. It was about a highschool boy, Jake Taylor, who gets wrapped up in basketball, his popularity, and his girlfriend. His childhood best friend saves his life when they are young. His friend is made fun of at school and feels all alone, so he feels his only way out is to commit suicide. Jake feels it is his fault that his friend does this because he didn't do anything. He now realizes he must change his life and his ways. He starts going to church, he leaves his old friends, and he makes friends with "uncool" kids. These experiences changes his life and the way he treats others.

THE HEART IN CONFLICT

The book (also a movie), Tuck Everlasting is the story of a girl, Winnie Foster and a boy named Jesse Tuck. Jesse Tuck and his family are immortal because they drank water from a special pool years prior. Winnie meets Jesse in the woods and gets to know him and eventually falls in love with him even with knowing his family secret. People of the town start to get suspicious so the Tuck's have to leave and Winnie has to make a decision whether to go back and drink the water and wait for Jesse or not drink the water and live a normal life. Years later, Jesse comes back to the house Winnie lived in and visits the cemetery beside the house. He finds her gravestone and realizes that she chose not to drink the water and she lived a long happy life as a wife and a mother.

Things Carried

Things I carry most everyday:
-purse(includes: wallet, keys, pencils, chapstick/lipgloss, bobby pins, gum, hairbrush, mirror.)
-jacket and mittens(in winter months)
-camera
-cell phone
-planner and journal
-bookbag
-lunch, snack, and waterbottle

All of these items are important to me and I really do need them to get through the day. If I had to pick one that I needed for survival, it would be my jacket, I especially need this walking across Macon State's very windy campus! I don't really have any special memories with any of these items; I think if you have a memory of it, it is probably of value and I wouldn't advise carrying that around. If someone went through my purse, my car, or my bookbag, they would see that I was a pretty organized person and that I don't carry a lot of excess things.