BielerEducation

__**A Hope in the Unseen**__ This chapter is about a boy, Cedric Jennings, who is from a school of drop out kids. The place they live is so bad that most of the children end up dropping out because they don't care about school. They brutally make fun of the kids who do well. Cedric is inspiring because he proves that when you really try to accomplish something, you can. He wants to go to college and further his knowledge and I think that is honorable considering the environment he is in. He gets scolded for his pride, but I think that he has every right to feel that way because he worked hard to accomplish all that he did. Those "A's" that he got were not an easy thing. He should be able to feel pride for something that he worked really hard on. I think that like Cedric, people often wonder why they decide to do the things that they do. He didn't go to his assembly to collect his award and someone else may not do something for another reason. Every thing that you do, you do for a reason and sometimes I think like Cedric, you don't know why. One thing that really stood out to me was when his mother gave him a quote that said "the race goes not to the swift nor the strong, but he who endureth until the end." This quote really stood out to me because I completely agree with this quote. I think that the people who try the hardest in life and really give everything they can will be awarded for their actions, sometimes even in small ways. For example, Cedric has tried really hard in school to keep his "A" average and he gets rewarded with money, but eventually from the title I am assuming he will go to a great college. This just proves that the harder you try, the more you will get out of life and the prouder you can be because you accomplished it with hard work.

I found this story to not be as interesting to me as the one before. I found it more dry than the first, so I found it really hard to read. I understand that Richard was uncomfortable when he had to learn English because he wasn't used to it. I think that it is uncomfortable and difficult for anyone to learn something new. It can be scary to try and open your mind to new things, but I believe it is necessary in order to grow. Richard eventually became so comfortable with English that he forgot about Spanish. I think that this can happen when something new is learned. It is very easy to get rid of old information that is not used as much as this new information. At first, he was so used to Spanish that is all that he knew, but as he grew accustomed to American culture he heard English all the time and was used to that. I believe that sometimes old information needs to be lost to make room for new information. I understand that he may feel like he let people down because that was his language he first learned and that is the language his family knows, but he gained new knowledge that will be more useful in the culture he is in.
 * __Hunger of Memory__**