Day 3: George and Michelle

George

In my book, Marji is always being surrounded by all this adversity and war that's been going on. A lot of the time Marji sees what's going around her and she starts to slowly lose hope into what can happen for the future. With all the war and killing going on, she and also her family don't really seem to see the silver lining at the end. A lot of times in difficult situations, it's never really easy to see the good that can come from it all. We start to become very pessimistic and just learn to expect the worse in things.Although Marji is trying very hard to keep her hopes up for the future, she just can't help but feel that what life she has come to know and feel comfortable with can be shattered and sort of distorted to this terrible lifestyle.I think that if I were to look past my struggles and difficult times, I would really see that I could overcome all the adversity and "gang signs" I can't see past. I can start to realize that the whole time I was being surrounded by negativity and trouble, I had this option all along to break away and see a better future ahead. A thing we all learn about in life is that even though things tend to get hard on us and never really seem to get any better, they will soon enough. We just have to have that faith that no matter what the situation, it's not gonna break us or change the person that we are. That in the end, we'll be able to overcome it all and look back and smile to ourselves cause we did it...

Michelle

I feel the reason Marji doesn't tell her parents about wanting to be a prophet is because she has this feeling inside of her that knows her parents might shun her for believeing that or discourage her just like her classmates and teacher. She just wanted to insure them that she only said it just to say it. Telling them she wanted to be a doctor kind of deflected them from prying farther into the situation.She still wants to have that dream of becoming a prophet and not be discouraged of how others thought of her idea.My whole life I've never really been able to say much to my mother. I always saw my other friends very close with their moms and I sort of envied them. I choose not to tell things to my mother because, like marji, i fear for what she'll say or how she'll feel about it. I have told her certain things to try and create that bond and trust but usually at the end, I'm shunned and feel at a lose with myself. In that way, I relate to Marji. She's knows if she tells her parents, they might not feel so happy about it and will trying to make her understand how that would be impossible. But for now, she wants to hold to that and she wants to believe that she can be one and make that difference she wants to make so much.