's Ski Trip: What I Learned In The Slush With His Holiness

Dalai Lama is a Tibetan spiritual leader whose life may not be as well rounded as you may think. He's been through the ups and downs throughout his life, from escaping the Chinese invasion as a kid to not even having enough money to go to the United States. In the story, “The Dalai Lama’s Ski Trip: What I Learned in the Slush with his Holiness” despite all the difficulties that presents him throughout the story, Dalai Lama always finds a way to provide happiness to every little problem and finds the good in bad situations. Although it took a while for him to achieve his overall goal, Preston eventually did by making his readers think about what the meaning of life actually is and on living life to the fullest.

Throughout the story the author

First, readers will believe Preston did an exceptional job describing Dalai Lama’s personality and attitude towards the situations that he encountered. When Dalai Lama gets hit by the girls skiing the author states, ”And then we realized that he was not injured after all, but was helpless with laughter” (Preston 537). This is showing that he has a positive attitude towards the situation even when he possibly could of got hurt and is living life to the fullest. Also, readers would enjoy how Preston uses Dalai Lama's positive dialogue to help him achieve his goal. Throughout the story, he periodically uses dialogue that has an positive effect on the reader. Preston adding these is important to the flow of the story because this helps the readers understand Dalai Lama’s attitude and thoughts that are going through his head during the situations he

First, readers that don't like slow pacing stories, like this one, may have lost interest or even lost what the goal of writing this story was. Preston using a slow pacing strategy, where characters were introduced in detail and not a lot happened until the climax, weakened the overall goal of the story. Readers will believe that if Preston used a more fast paced story with more events happening, more readers would have believed he achieved his overall goal and the story would have better flow. Also, some parts of the story that Preston added were confusing and the purpose was unclear. The readers will agree that some information was not needed in order to get his goal across, it often confused the reader on why the information was added and may have bored the reader. For example, Preston adding information about Dalai Lama’s daily routine in the rising action weakened the purpose of writing this story. Overall, Preston did an ideal job of getting his meaning out, but could've easily been more effective without the slow paced and unclear information.

The authors viewpoints were logical in what made an ideal story. First, I loved the overall meaning of the story, which was what was the meaning of life. This was a good topic to write about because it is something that many people have maybe not thought about. Next, I really