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Changeing Self

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Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing them selves.

Good morning class and teacher, no matter what we do we can not avoid change, it is an inescapable concept that some people need and some find hard to accept and in the poem ‘Sky High’ and movie ‘Redemption’ both of these solutions to change are demonstrated.

Hannah Robert, the author of Sky High describes and relives her childhood by remembering how she used to swing on her clothes line. As she goes back to her childhood memeroy other details come back ti her bit by bit; the almond tree, the nectarine tree and the patchy lawn. When she sees the vegetables that were planted in her niegbours garden she suspects that, all they eat is vegetables, which is what a kid would think if they had seen a garden full of vegetables. She describes swinging on the clothes line is like flying. The ending lines ‘…it is unlikely the washing line could support me this time. There are too many things tying me to the ground’ means that she is not a care free child anymore and that she has responsibilities and priorities to take care of. Change in Hannah’s age forced her to accept that she is not a child anymore.

The film Redemption is about a Death Row Inmate who changes his ways from Leader of Los Angeles biggest gang “Crips” to a Nobel Prize Nominee. Staring actor Jamie Fox plays, Stan Williams, a role which changes in the movie, he starts off as a young violent black teen on the streets of LA, he starts up a gang in his hood called the crips and from then he and his group commit numerous crimes. Finally Stan gets put on trial for the crimes he had committed, he was then put on Death Row and sent to San Quentin prison, after time Stan realizes

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