Lighting Their Fires by Rafe Esquith

Author:Rafe Esquith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA), Inc.

In that sentence Huck not only makes a decision but demonstrates that he has fully considered the consequences of both courses of action. He has understood that going to hell will be harder than turning in Jim to Miss Watson, but in bravely making the more difficult choice, Huck is accepting personal responsibility for his actions.

Special young people grow up to be like Huck: decisive, moral, and courageous enough to do the right thing even if it means standing alone. In Huck Finn, kids learn perhaps the most important thing about choices: the biggest ones are often the hardest and the loneliest, but those with courage and conviction find the strength to take the hard road where others choose the easier path.

Finally, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize- winning novel, serves as a sort of family bible in Room 56. There is not a page without humor, truth, and wisdom. When children practice making decisions, remind them that in the final analysis choices have to be their own, reached by weighing their options against the backdrop of all the knowledge they have gathered in life so far. For their difficult decisions, when the weight of the world seems too much to bear, please arm with them Atticus Finch’s advice regarding the pressure to conform: “But before I live with other people I have to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.”

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