Essay 2 Sophia Agbonlahor
Faith like potatoes/TV shows Every day I look forward in coming home to relax and watch TV shows, Haves and haves not, Crime shows like Law and Order: Criminal Intent, and one of my best movie faith like potatoes When I saw faith like potatoes, in the summer of 2011, it surprising that I fell in love with it. I was basically living it. I had recently graduated from high school in 2010 and had spent five exhausting months doing nothing but watching tv, Facebook, eat all day and been sober. Although I was going to college in January, was waiting for schools to resume. However, chatting with my friends and watching tv was my only way of not been sober and frustrated. Outside of Tv, …show more content…
For those who have not seen the film, Faith like potatoes is based on a farmer and his family who had everything; he was on an average wealth life style. Although had no faith in God, he was a Christian but his faith in Christ was not strong even though he had a wife who believed in Christ. I saw myself in this farmer because I felt everything was over in my life. In this movie faith like potatoes it was a rugged South African farmer, Angus Buchan, who wrestles with faith, hope, natural disasters and tragic personal loss. He had everything a beautiful home and family until his home was burnt down and he lost everything, Angus Buchan felt God was mean and wicked or does not love him. I saw myself in this movie because at age 13 I was lost my mum and felt everything was gone; life became hard because people true self was revealed. My brother and my father where all I had left, took me a year to realize my mother was no more and never coming back. My faith in God dropped; it felt he never loved me that is why he took my mummy. Why it hurt me so much was that I never got to see her for two months before she died so I did not know what to prepare for