Personal Narrative: Aliens

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Aliens. The end of the world. School. All topics that teenagers think about. As a young adult, I find that the emotions of a teenager are never given justice in society. As a lonely student going throughout her daily routine of trudging off to school, completing homework, eating and sleeping, I often lie awake at night, wondering if these monotonous actions are really all life is meant to be. And as an avid reader, I sometimes find it arduous to locate books that accurately describe the real high school experience. With your book, Mr. Hutchinson, I have found insight and motivation for life, love, happiness, and being yourself. “Wake up, go to school, go home. Repeat until the world ends” (Hutchinson, 121). Sometimes it seems that all there …show more content…
They recommended your book, but ultimately choose another book to read. Still, your book sparked interest in my head because it sounded just what I was looking for; realistic-fiction, with fantasy elements. I eventually bought the book myself. I fell instantly in love with the narrator, beginning with his personality. In previous books, I’d found it hard to relate to characters of the opposite gender, but Henry Denton resonated so well with me. During the first chapter, I would myself smirking, and agreeing with every pessimistic saying he had. As high schoolers, how do we impact our world or the universe for that matter? Henry was placed in a strange situation, where he could see very clearly, humans on earth make practically no change anyone in the cosmos can see. As he’s given the choice to save the world or not, he ponders “I could write my name across the sky, and it would be in invisible ink” (Hutchinson, 56). And he is given the choice on whether the world should continue on. He argues that if humans make no influence on the universe, and we all die eventually, what’s stopping him from ending the world now? “People don’t really change; they just find something else to give their life meaning” (Hutchinson, 383). Through Diego, through Nana, through his school, Henry discovers more meaning in his life. Henry recognizes that the lives of people he loves are worth keeping the world around. Through Diego, he meets a friend and his first love since Jesse. Although the world is still filled with sadness and horror, and the world will still end, Henry realizes that it doesn’t matter. Life is not just about changing the world or saving it; life is about discovering

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