Books that have made you cry?
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Re: Books that have made you cry?
Review of The Seneca Scourge - Previous book of the month!
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I actually read it a couple of days ago, fresh out of graduating highschool with mediocre grades and having spent 3 or so months doing nothing productive at all, I became disillusioned with the struggles I may face with college, my constant degrading grades and the stress that will hit me during the years, despite getting accepted to the one I have chosen. In Breaking Night, Liz struggles to have her basic needs met which leads to attending highschool and just school in general being the last thing she had in mind. While crashing in on friends homes or outdoors and eating leftovers or shoplifting. She finally realised that school, and education was her way out of it. So she began going back to highschool and finished 4 years of highschool within 2 years, since she was already a bit too to restart highschool all per again. One fateful day she entered a New York Times scholarship and thereon she won a ticket to the prestigious Ivy League; Harvard University.
This book changed me for a lot of reasons not only did it make me cry but it also managed to remove inner blocks that set me apart from reaching educational goals, it gave me hope; that no matter what happens we can always strive for the best, now matter what our situation might be and most of all it reminded me of the importance of courage and determination. As corny and cliched as it sounds, whatever we need is all within us. We just need to bypass our inner critics and the obstacles along the way. And lastly, that there is no such thing as having "luck" on your side. Everything earned would be earned the good old fashioned way.
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It's too touching for comfort. I didn't think it was possible for someone to go through so much misery....
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