12 Sentence Story

My Dad and I were going outside to play catch, we had smiles painted on our faces, we had gloves in our hands, and we had softball fever. I wanted to keep throwing grounders; dad insisted we move to pop flies. He threw the ball, a torpedo ready to hit its target, right up into the sky. I watched the ball move across the sky, through the summer air, and onto my little nose. I cried and cried and then saw the blood on my hands. Oh no. I hoped that my nose was not broken and that I would not pass out and that mom would not come outside to see the awful scene. If momma isn't happy, then nobody is happy. Rushing towards me, my dad I saw. What do we do now? Well, he lead me inside and checked to see if my nose was broken, and retrieved a towel and some ice, and explained to mom what had happened. Two black eyes that had already swollen up, a purple and blue flat nose that hurt like you wouldn't believe...yes, this was what my face looked like after my little incident.

What it takes to be Driven...

While I was reading Mocking Jay by Suzanne Collins, I suddenly began to think about why Katniss fought so hard to take down the capital. Why did she keep fighting even when she had been beaten down and lost loved ones? Many people in our world today would just give up because things had gotten too difficult.

At this time in the book, Katniss has been burned, beaten, bruised and still fighting. President Snow has been captured and it is Katniss's duty to kill him. He has harassed her, he has killed people she cares about, he has even brain washed the boy she loves, but she does not back down because if she does then Snow will be satisfied. To her, letting Snow being satisfied is worse to her then her own pain.

Katniss is driven by the thought of her family and loved ones. She cares so strongly about them that she wants to protect them. Many of them have died for her and she hates that. I think that she doesn't want them to die in vein, so she has to do everything in her power to achieve the mission they all set out to do.

I could not be as strong as Katniss. I don't even know if I would have enough strength to be living. This book is so amazing and inspiring that I hope the people that read this book will also be inspired. Good books like this probably help people be courageous.

I realize that the book is not true, but if we had more people in our country today like Katniss, then wow...nothing could take us down.