Loving others is something we should all try and become better at. We see some wonderful examples of this in all three books. In the Middle of Everywhere we saw it when it explained the stories of the refugees leaving their own countries and cultures to find a better life. Some parents would save up all their money just so they could get their children to a safer place. In the story where the two sisters, Shireen …show more content…
After reading all three books it is easy to see that no one is going to have a perfect life, and we are all going to have trails or know of someone who has hardships in life. I was inspired by the refugee’s love, joy, virtue and belief of their family and their culture. I love how they accepted the American culture as well. Even when people were rude and mean to them, they still found a way to push through their trials and find joy in their new life’s in America. The best thing we all can do is find joy in the little things in life. In the middle of everywhere, the chapter on children showed this. Children often struggled when they go to school because everything is new to them. Refugee children in particular have just experienced and scare and traumatizing event of being torn away from their home and culture. The children attending school often struggle socially and academically because many do not understand and speak our language. The best thing that they can do is find joy in the little things throughout their day to help them cope with the change. In the book Wonder, we see an example of this in the very last chapter. Everyone is walking, the kids in one group, the adults in another. Everyone laughing, happy, and having a good time. Then Auggie notices his mom walking behind them, by herself, but smiling. He goes and gives her a hug, and she says how she is grateful for him in her life and for being him. I think this example relates to finding joy in the little things. As I often think that the reason why she had fallen behind on the walk home was because she was find joy in the life of her son. How he is one of the best things that have happened to her. In A Path Appears we find an example of finding joy in the little things in life is when it talks about John Wood. His friend told him, “the secret in life is to think early on what you want your legacy to be, what you would like