Kenna Jenkinson

Ms. Colley

Language Arts 7

27 February 2018

 

How Lives Can Change

 

Has something ever happened so suddenly it impacts you and the ones surrounding you? It

depends how you interpret this situation. This could impact your life in a positive or negative

way. In the stories “A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley,” and in the stories “Profile:

Malala Yousafzai” and “The Night Tourist,” Scrooge, Malala, and Euri undergoes major

changes as the result of sudden events in their lives.

 

In the play “A Christmas Carol: Scrooge and Marley,” the character of Scrooge undergoes

a change from a cruel miser to a joyful, generous individual as a result of a visit from the

three spirits. The ghost of Christmas Past, Present and Future shows Scrooge events from his

life will positively affect him and others around him. “Spirit! Hear me! I am not the man I was.

I will not be the man I would have been but for this intercourse. Why show me this, if I am past

all hope?” Being a generous kind person is the key to life. (My Perspectives page 284)

 

In the story “Profile: Malala Yousafzai” the character of Malala goes from being a young poor

school girl to being world famous. This all because she was shot and she survived. Militants got

to her school and shot her and two of her friends. Malala survived the wound and her

hospitalization, then went to the U.K. She took her campaign worldwide and now she is all over

the media. “From delicate surgery at Pakistani military hospital to further operations and

treatment in the U.K, and afterword’s as she took her campaign worldwide has been closely

followed by the worlds media.”  She is a different girl than she was four years ago.

(Profile: Malala Yousafzai page 1 stanza 7)

 

In the story “The Night Tourist” Euri goes from being a poor young school girl to being dead

and living in the underworld. This all happened because she wasn’t happy with life so she killed

herself. Euri was not happy with life, so one day on her way home she jumped in front of a train

and killed herself. “She paused, and Jack waited for her to continue. ‘The circle means suicide.

I have a circle.’” Euri says she regrets doing it, and she wishes she could go back and see the

people she misses. (The Night Tourist page 134)

 

In conclusion, lives can be changed very quickly and suddenly. It all depends how you react

to the change slowly, myriad or if the change is permanent like Euri. You should react positively,

so you have a better chance of things going good like for Malala.