Bethany 1
Mr. Connolly
ENG2D
7 November 2012
Building
the Final Assessment
Junior’s perseverance aided him in
leaving the reservation. His father once
said, “you have to dream big to get big” (Alexie 136). Junior’s perseverance helped him ‘get big’ by
giving him the required mind set to leave his reservation for a better
education. Junior’s teacher, when
talking about the people on the reservation, told him, “’all these kids have
given up,” he said. “All your friends.
All the bullies. And their
mothers and fathers have given up, too.
And their grandparents gave up and grandparents before them. And me and every other teacher here. We’re all defeated” (Alexie 42). Junior would have also given up if he did not
possess perseverance. Without
perseverance, Junior would have had no opportunities for change, leaving him in
his current state of poverty and lacking a proper education to get out of
it. Junior, when explaining to his best
friend why he needed to leave the reservation said, “I have to go. I’m going to die if I don’t leave” (Alexie
52). Though this statement is an
exaggeration, it shows how desperate Junior was to leave the reservation and,
furthermore, how much his perseverance helped him when it aided him in getting
out. Without his perseverance, Junior’s
life would have been radically different and unfulfilling.
Work Cited
My post could be improved by correcting multiple mistakes. One of these mistakes is my quotation selection. Though all of my quotes sound dramatic, they don’t help me prove my opening statement well. Also, my opening statement itself is weak, lacking the book’s title and presented in a way that grabs little interest. My paragraph could also use a more appealing title. I will watch out for these mistakes in my essay.
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