Resilience In My Left Foot By Christy Brown

Resilience is the ability to recover after difficult times or events that affect your life. When a person suffers after a tragedy but they keep on going to do what they love to do, that is resilience. Resilience is where the person does not give up when they get hurt and they stand back up, this shows the person toughness and resilience. Night also shows resilience when they have enter the concentration camp, stripped of their identities and they had to be working as slave while grasping on the little humanity they have left. “I shall always remember that smile. From what world did it come from?” this shows the amount of resilience they have, and the only thing that keeps them alive. Resilience is built through moving toward your goals, take decisive actions, and accepting that change is a part of living. …show more content…
In the story, “My Left Foot” Christy Brown demonstrates that, although he was born with no control over his body, he grew up he became to be a famous writer. He spent his life sad to watch his mom have to take care of him and his brothers and sisters looking at him like he wasn't normal. Christy couldn't go play with his brothers. He couldn't go to school and he had to live with his parents looking at him with shame. Christy gives it his all to convince his parents that he is a normal person by writing the word mother on the floor with his left foot. Christy’s resilience and confidence help him believe anything is possible. Moving towards goals, Christy manages to improve his life Christy has taken decisive actions mostly in his childhood, when he some sort of problems or stress he would take action to get rid of it. Most importantly he has accepted who he is, change is the most important way in life and he has taken that fully and now that doesn't bother him