Death

Authors note:This is a response to the book Breathe By Cliff McNish. I not trying to persuade  you to thinking one way or another about death. That's your opinion not mine. This is just a response.




We all incur this problem. Someone you love or are close to dies. It's natural life. There's no stopping death, and it's foolish to try to. In the book Breathe by Cliff McNish. Jack and his Mom Shara lost their dad to a heart attack and move a shady house in a forest were four children died along with a mother. Jack’s talent of being able to communicate with the dead helps him find a story that he never wanted to find. Also he learns that people are all going to die at some time in the feature, so before that day comes enjoy it.         I've had this problem happen to me with someone dying in our family, my great grandma. I watched her die slowly each day. Did I stop caring about her though? No I didn't. Why should you then? She may have been dying but she kept smiling and joking around with our family until the very last moment. Everyone handles death differently, for some people it does affect them at all. Some burst in to tears. People even kill themselves over the deceased.        Now I'm not saying that you shouldn't be upset over a lost one, you should, no doubt about that. I'm just saying that you should remember them not try to bring them back to life, because in most cases they are going to a better place. Mr. McNish briefly talked about this at the end of the book saying. "...I understand that losing someone is sad, but there is no need to take them away from the other side. I will see all of them at some point..."        Death it's very sad, it always will be too. You cannot deny death no matter how stronger you are. Mr.McNish did a great job of getting this across and trying to keep good humor and a light mood in the story. Witch was hard especially with the main topic being death. At some point in our lives we are all going to die but before you do live your life do the fullest.

Adversity

Authors Note: This is a Response to the book Blood on the Horns by Roland Lazenby.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.". Martin Luther King Jr's said at one of the most famous speeches in the world’s history. Almost 50 years later people judge people by their race, color of skin and religion. Michael Jordan found this out as he played basketball. Proving that no matter how great you are you always have to battle adversity, in this case racism and criticism.   


In the book Blood on the Horns  by Roland Lazenby, he tells how Michael Jordan had to put up with and how he dealt with it.  That's not the only point in the book but it's the main one. He does a great job of getting the point across by telling the read some of the signs he would see and words that would be shouted at him. Giving a first person view of what being picked on because of your race. This was not only at away stadiums too it was at home stadiums.By Bull's fans! I think it's horrible that he had to put up with even by his own fans. That's like being called a fail or a mistake by your own parents. How would you like that? Yet people still do it to this day.        


That's not the only war he had to wage. Owner Jerry Reinsdorf and GM Jerry Krause did build the team around Jordan but they wanted to get rid of the Head Coach Phil Jackson. Michael didn't approve of this and said that if Jackson got let go he would leave. This sparked the bitter relationship. Eventually started a media firestorm of hateful comments and refusing to go to practices between player and head coach against owner and GM. This would only get worse when they attempted to trade away Scottie Pippen and Dennis Rodman who had became great friends with Michael.      


Even through all the hate and disrespect he became the best basketball player even. One of the point in the story is this never let someone tell you that you can't do this or that because of you religion or race.   Also another point in the book is that adversity will always be in your life and you have two choices. Get stronger from it or give in to all the hate, criticism and racism