Fifteen Minutes Audition: Zack Dylan's Life

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Zack Dylan, a Christian country boy who spent the last nineteen years of his life on a farm in a small town in Kentucky is about to have his simple life transformed into a fame filled life he has dreamt about all thanks to a Fifteen Minutes Audition, which is a show like American Idol or the Voice. Zack Dylan has a gift that he believes that is God given, his voice. With his family in fear of losing their farm because of expenses, Zack Dylan decides to audition to save his family’s farm and has hopes of bringing Christ into his Fifteen Minutes experience. With his amazing voice and southern boy charm he passes through the auditions with flying colors. As the star rises, Zack is asked to keep his faith quiet, and also something so much more. Just as America begins to fall in love with Zack Dylan, his fame and fortune goes to his head. At the same time, Reese Weatherly, a horse instructor and Zack Dylan’s college sweet heart no longer knows the man she has fallen in love with. He is changing week after week and she cannot believe the man that the show is turning him into. While America can’t get enough of Zack Dylan, an offer comes to Reese that she can’t ignore. The chance of a life time is right at Reese’s fingertips when a horse therapeutic school in London, England calls Reese about an amazing job opportunity that she would be crazy to not accept. …show more content…
Have you ever had to keep quiet about your faith? Honestly, there have been many situations in my life where I’ve kept my relationship with God quiet in order to feel accepted at a new school or with new friends. Who are the true winners? That is the true question that I’ve come across in this story. Yes, Zack could have won Fifteen Minutes and lived the life of an absolute rock star, but at the end of the story Zack realizes that there is more to life than materialistic things like fame and

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