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Examples Of How To Transform An Every Day By Matt De La Pena

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Conner Cummings
English 10
Ms. Sauer
1 February 2023
Life Lessons One life lesson is, don’t ignore the pain. Sometimes there will be some random pain, but the pain is how the body says something is wrong. When pain is ignored it will come back worse and stronger. This essay will discuss Matt De La Pena’s “How To Transform an Everyday, Ordinary Hoop Court into a Place of Higher Learning and You at the Podium”. Life lessons are important because, they can help you later in life, especially the ones that are learned off the court. There are life lessons that are learned on and off of the court, but the ones that are learned off of the court are more impactful. A lesson learned by the narrator is that actions speak louder than words. This can be seen when Pop shows up to all of the narrator’s games, but doesn’t talk much with him after (de le Pena 10). The reason this supports the claim is because he doesn’t talk about it all night with him, but he is always there and Pop can be counted on. Another example of the lesson that actions speak louder than words is when Pop defends the narrator when the cop comes by his work(de la Pena 4). After he explains the situation he doesn’t sit and have a conversation he rubs his shoulder, looks straight into the …show more content…

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