me (Stavsky 11).“It was the best of times,It was the worst of times.It was the age of wisdom,It was the age of foolishness.It was the season of light,It was the season of darkness.It was the spring of hope,It was the winter of despair.”-Charles Dickens(Connors 97)I think that this poem means that you go through many stages in your life,happiness, sadness, darkness, etc. It says to me that even though you may be sad at times, it willalways get better, unless you don’t want it to, then things can only stay the same. It won’t getbetter, or worse. So, don’t run away from your problems, face them and everything will turn outalright, maybe not the way that you want it to, but anything can be better than living out on thestreet, homeless, with no where to go at night. Be thankful for what you have right now. Thereare hundreds of teens the same age as you who don’t have a warm bed to sleep in, who don’t geta full meal a day, or even get to wash and bathe properly. So, the next time that you think thatrunning away would be the “answer”, then think again, this time about this question: “Is it reallythe answer, or just another easy fix?”SourcesConnors, Patricia. Runaways: Coping at Home and On The Street 1989: 18-24Madison, Arnold. Runaway Teens 1997: 29-38Stavsky, Lois and Mozeson, I.E. The Place I Call Home: Faces and Voices of Runaway Teens 1990: 1-21; 166“Runaways and Throwaways, General” Microsoft Corporation, 1997-2000 *http://parentingteens.mining.com/parenting/parentingteens/library/weekly/aa 040798.html*...
