Perseverance means to me to keep on trying to do something despite the difficulty of how hard it is. And to stay spiritually strong and to never give up at anytime until you have reached your goal or your expectations. The 5 stages of grief are Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, and Acceptance. I think everyone goes through at least 1 of the 5 stages of grief, because everyone has trials that they go through in their life. But different people go through different stages. Denial is when we can't face the reality that something tragic has happened in our life and we don't accept it. Anger is a masked emotion for pain that can affect others around you. Bargaining is when you think that the cause of the accident was your fault and you keep …show more content…
At the beginning of the book, star basketball player Robbie was in a very tragic accident. All of his friends that were in the car that crashed with Robbie struggled through Anger, Depression, Bargaining, and Acceptance. Bj who was in the back seat of the car that crashed, felt so angry because he couldn't do anything to save Robbie from the burning car. He also suffered through depression because every night he went to sleep he kept "seeing the fire and Hearin' his screams and feel in' so hopeless pg.15". In his prayer, Bj asked why didn't he die instead of Robbie. However Bj stayed strong, and was able to persevere and learn to live without Robbie his best friend. Keisha who was Andy's best friend who Andy told everything too, especially how he felt about the accident. Keisha went through depression because she said "I've never known anyone who died before except my grandmother, and she was old. Pg. 10" Andy was one of Robbie's best friend, they played basketball together and they were really close. When Robbie died Andy was depressed all the time and he just kept having stressed built up he had so much stressed built up he lashed out at his friends saying "I don't forget I'm alive and that he's dead, you've made your point he's dead! Pg.111" With all the counseling Andy had, he didn't want to accept it and to let out his feelings out