Struggles Are the Journey
The book Drums Girls and Dangerous Pie, written by Jordan Sonnenblick, focuses on the struggles of Jeffrey and his family. Steven, a teenager who plays the drums, has a little annoying brother named Jeffrey. Jeffrey has cancer, his family is short on money, and to top it all off Steven is failing in school. Steven’s friends held a benefit concert to help the family and it really does. One of the lessons the story suggests is that part of life's journey is fighting through the tough times.
Fighting through the tough times make the positive times feel more valuable. Being Steven in the story would be really tough. He made Jeffery some oatmeal, “moatmeal” (Sonnenblick 15) as Jeffery would say, but during the process, Jeffery falls off his chair and gets a bloody nose. Jeffrey begins to “scream like a banshee and the drop of blood turned into a torrent” ( 17). Even though this …show more content…
They were the ones that came up with the idea to hold a benefit concert for Steven and his family. The day of the concert came and as Jeffrey and Steven walk in the bandroom they soon come to realize the boys all shaved their heads and the girls all cut their hair in honor of Jeffrey. As the band entered the stage ‘‘ ...the shiny heads of the entire band became visible in the stage lights” ( 255). When the boys shave and the girls cut their hair can really show how much Jeffrey and Steven mean to everyone. Without the hardships that Steven and Jeffrey go through, they might not have as exceptional or helpful of friends. While some might think friends are the whole part of the story you have to remember that friends had no knowledge of what Steven and his family is going through. Steven’s friends really don’t do much to help and care until more to the middle or end of the
The book Drums Girls and Dangerous Pie, written by Jordan Sonnenblick, focuses on the struggles of Jeffrey and his family. Steven, a teenager who plays the drums, has a little annoying brother named Jeffrey. Jeffrey has cancer, his family is short on money, and to top it all off Steven is failing in school. Steven’s friends held a benefit concert to help the family and it really does. One of the lessons the story suggests is that part of life's journey is fighting through the tough times.
Fighting through the tough times make the positive times feel more valuable. Being Steven in the story would be really tough. He made Jeffery some oatmeal, “moatmeal” (Sonnenblick 15) as Jeffery would say, but during the process, Jeffery falls off his chair and gets a bloody nose. Jeffrey begins to “scream like a banshee and the drop of blood turned into a torrent” ( 17). Even though this …show more content…
They were the ones that came up with the idea to hold a benefit concert for Steven and his family. The day of the concert came and as Jeffrey and Steven walk in the bandroom they soon come to realize the boys all shaved their heads and the girls all cut their hair in honor of Jeffrey. As the band entered the stage ‘‘ ...the shiny heads of the entire band became visible in the stage lights” ( 255). When the boys shave and the girls cut their hair can really show how much Jeffrey and Steven mean to everyone. Without the hardships that Steven and Jeffrey go through, they might not have as exceptional or helpful of friends. While some might think friends are the whole part of the story you have to remember that friends had no knowledge of what Steven and his family is going through. Steven’s friends really don’t do much to help and care until more to the middle or end of the