Resilient Person Argument Analysis

The author begins her argument with a real life example of a nine year old boy whose mother is an alcoholic and a father who is gone. She then describes the boy's attitude and perseverance and how he ends up succeeding even through his traumatic childhood, thus achieving resilience. With this example she goes deeper into how children who experienced stress and difficult situations would be able to be resilient. After research, she informs the reader that there are two answers to resilient people one of which relies on luck and the other of the individual and their personality and experience. From this point of her argument, the author focus on these two groups. With her statement that some element of a resilient person relies on luck, she uses