Red Roses

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“As you grow older, you will discover you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.” I chose this quote because the story I picked “Red Roses” is perfect for this quote because it is talking about a girl who was mean to a person but she apologized. My essay is going to be a story that I can relate to or someone I know can relate to.

My first relation to this story is to fit in with everybody. The reason I picked this is that I have been moving around a lot which means new people to try to fit in with. I have gotten better at it and it’s not as hard now because I'm not as shy anymore. An example would be here at Derby, this is my first year at DMS but I know some kids because I went to elementary so it wasn’t too

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