Finding Her Way Analysis

For most of human history, someone with a different race or a disability might have a disadvantage in society. It is sad but true. The texts “Finding Her Way” and “Kylie’s Project” are about overcoming personal challenges. Overall, these readings show that Angela and Kylie, the protagonists in these stories, cope with their situations in different but positive ways and provide an example of how to overcome a challenge. Angela had a personal challenge and speaks about how she overcame it in “Finding Her Way”. Her family is korean so in her childhood she was always different from everyone else. “I don’t remember any other Asian kids in my elementary school, except for my older sister. She and I got a lot of teasing, especially on the playground.,” Angela said in the interview. This tells her personal problem. Angela deals with the teasing in a positive way. “Once in a while I would talk back, but mostly I would try to ignore them and pretend they didn’t bother me. I had friends who would stand up for me sometimes.,” she says. This is setting an example to anyone who

Overall, through standing up for herself, through her friends standing up for her, and through being wise enough to ignore the other kids’ insults, Angela dealt with teasing while still accepting her own culture, which is the most positive way to cope with a personal challenge. Kylie also has a personal challenge, which she copes with in a different yet positive way in “Kylie’s Project”. Kylie has a disability and is shy to tell about it, and also is shy to tell about her horseback riding. Kylie deals with her problems in a couple different ways. Firstly, she copes partially with the disadvantages of her disability with therapeutic