Nicholas Gage a very ambitious, dauntless journalist from Greek tells about in his story “The Teacher who Changed My Life” how he got to America and how a teacher who helped him and encouraged him to become what he is now. Nicholas Gage was born in 1939 in Greece when Nicholas was young Communist guerrillas occupied his village, took his home and food his mother planned him and his sisters escape when she learned that children were to be sent to re-education camp behind the Iron Curtain. At the last moment his mother couldn't escape with him because the guerillas sent her away with a group of woman to thresh wheat in a distant village. She promised she would try to get away on her own and she told him to be brave and hung a silver cross …show more content…
she bellowed at the would-be journalists. “This is the Newspaper Club! We’re going to put out a newspaper. So if there’s anybody in this room that doesn’t like to work, i suggest you go across to the Glee Club now, because you’re going to work you tails off here!” (Gage 214). Nicholas was soon under Miss.Hurd’s spell. Miss.Hurd taught the class how to put out a newspaper, skills he honed during his next 25 years as a journalist. Soon i asked the principal to transfer me to her english class as well. In her class she drilled them on grammar until he finally began to understand the logic and structure of English language. Miss.Hurd assigned them stories to read and discuss one day after discussing how writers should write about what they know she assigned them to essay from their own experience. Fixing him with a stern look she added, “Nick, i want you to write about what happened to your family in Greece” He had been trying to forget those painful memories. (Gage ). On a warm spring afternoon, he sat in his room with a yellow pad and pencil and stared out the window at the buds on the trees. He wrote that the coming of spring always made him think about the last time he said goodbye to his mother on a green and gold day in 1948. He kept writing, one line after