Breaking Night: Text-Text, Text-Self, Text-World

This is my like third post on this book, so you can probably kinda tell that I really like this book. I'm not usually the type that can easily make relations from books to other books, but this book is vaguely related to the widely known book Hunger Games in which someone who lives in a very poor and impoverish society manages to climb their way to being one of the top in whatever place they are living in. Though Hunger Games is a fiction book, Breaking Night is a true story. But both brought a whole new perspective onto me. It got me thinking that (prepare, this will get cheesy) no matter what kind of environment your are living, only you can decide how you are going to live it. Sure, Liz had her ups and downs. Some times she felt like the world hated her, but she always managed to bring herself up and go even further than before, which brings me to my next topic of Text to self. I'm pretty sure that everyone aspires to be like someone whether it's in athletics like football star Ray Lewis (creds to Josh Stew) or becoming the next Pablo Picasso. In my case, I believe Liz Murray is someone to aspire to. Not letting her environment or situation get in the way of her success, is a huge feat, and now, is trying to spread her story to the world. So my text to world reference would have to be just her huge influence on other people who may be in a similar situation she was in at their age. There's no big, world event that I can really relate this text to that much, but I can say that she made a huge impact on me and many others around the nation.



So I think I've said enough about this book. Look forward to the next update with a different book!