Have you ever taken a risk that later served in your favor ? Well i know that some people such as Annie Johnson has she hand-made meat pies to keep her and her family fed after her husband divorced her . Another example of someone who'd taken a risk well worth taking is Farah Ahmedi, she had a prosthetic leg yet she didn't let that stop her, she wanted so badly for her and her mother to have a better life she walked a 30 mile trip to get to the other side of the border . And there's also Ernesto Galarza who had just moved into America and did not know English took the risk of going to a public school. However, all three shared an ability to overcome those risks to accomplish their goals.
Annie Johnson
Annie Johnson the main character in “New Directions” By Maya Angelou is a woman who struggled to support her family. She started planning “meticulously and in secret”about creating and selling meat pies over at the cotton gin and the “saw mill” which was “five miles further along the dirt road”.She worked hard to complete the meat pies by morning and “made dough and filled the rolled-out pastry with…show more content… There have been many people trying to get through the gate yet none could the guards have “clubs, and they had carbines, too, which they turned and used as weapons”.Farah had learned a way to get in but it would cost money which they did not have.At the end of their second day there they ended up camping next to a family who knew another way to get through the border. The wife is the one they had met becauses her husband left to find out if the path worked . “Later that night her husband showed up” and informed them that “it works”.The wife “told him” there “story and Ghulam Ali took pity on” them.Though a thirty mile trip and Farah having a prosthetic leg she triumphed through it to “The Other Side of the
