Qt. 3 Outside Reading SEVEN

Today I read a short story in Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II titled My Angel Has a Halo by Amanda Johnson. This story illustrated change because Amanda's boyfriend got in a skateboard accident and broke his neck. As a result he had to wear a neck brace and could not drive or do many things he was accustom to. This change illustrated many important lessons to the reader, one of them being that change can scare people. Amanda's intial reaction was to cry and feel sorry for herself. This shows the reader also that being scared of change is normal. Everyone goes through times when they are scared of things beign different, but you also must grow past that stage. Her growing and maturing was illustrated when she realized how selfish she was to feel bad for herself, and as result she went to the hosptal and cared for her boyfreind. Her caring demonstarted anohter next lesson to the reader, that change matures people. In the end the reader is moved by her responsible and adpatiabilty. This story personally taught me all the lessons previously mentioned and it also taught me that even a bad change, can bring forth good change in character and matuarity.