Choosing Your Consequences
Eleanor Roosevelt once stated, “One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.” The book That Summer by Sarah Dessen is a realistic fiction story about fifteen-year-old Haven who has one summer that changes her life. In the small town of Lakeview, Haven’s father is getting remarried, her sister is walking down the aisle with boring Lewis Warsher and things couldn’t get worse. There are a variety of characters who make poor decisions throughout the story affecting others. These characters in That Summer earned consequences for the choices they made forcing them to take responsibility for their actions. To begin with, Haven’s father made a choice that destroyed their family. He decided to have an affair with a woman at his work and never actually took full responsibility. Haven talks about how she wants her father to confront the house that he left behind after his divorce: “I wanted him, I realized, to finally approach and cross the imaginary …show more content…
Close to her wedding date, Ashley had a little too much to drink and a little too much fun at her bachelorette party. When her fiance found out he was quite agitated: “Lewis stood up, pushing his chair out. “I don’t want to hear about this, okay? A week before my wedding and my fiancee is putting her hands on strange men . . . I just can’t think about it right now” (Dessen 150). This wouldn’t have happened if Ashely just was responsible for the choices she made that night. However, she can’t go back and change the past, therefore Ashley needs to confront her fiancee and explain what she did was wrong. By doing this, Ashley will be able to take liability for the decisions she made. To summarize, Ashley made a poor choice forcing her to take responsibility for her actions so that her wedding doesn’t get
Eleanor Roosevelt once stated, “One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.” The book That Summer by Sarah Dessen is a realistic fiction story about fifteen-year-old Haven who has one summer that changes her life. In the small town of Lakeview, Haven’s father is getting remarried, her sister is walking down the aisle with boring Lewis Warsher and things couldn’t get worse. There are a variety of characters who make poor decisions throughout the story affecting others. These characters in That Summer earned consequences for the choices they made forcing them to take responsibility for their actions. To begin with, Haven’s father made a choice that destroyed their family. He decided to have an affair with a woman at his work and never actually took full responsibility. Haven talks about how she wants her father to confront the house that he left behind after his divorce: “I wanted him, I realized, to finally approach and cross the imaginary …show more content…
Close to her wedding date, Ashley had a little too much to drink and a little too much fun at her bachelorette party. When her fiance found out he was quite agitated: “Lewis stood up, pushing his chair out. “I don’t want to hear about this, okay? A week before my wedding and my fiancee is putting her hands on strange men . . . I just can’t think about it right now” (Dessen 150). This wouldn’t have happened if Ashely just was responsible for the choices she made that night. However, she can’t go back and change the past, therefore Ashley needs to confront her fiancee and explain what she did was wrong. By doing this, Ashley will be able to take liability for the decisions she made. To summarize, Ashley made a poor choice forcing her to take responsibility for her actions so that her wedding doesn’t get