The streak is a short story by Walter Dean Myers. The short story shows how luck is just a state of mind. They start off talking about all of the bad things that have happened to Jamie Farrell within the past 2 days. He is not happy about what has happened and shortly after he started turning around his life. He was able to according to his friend have as much good luck as bad. He decided that he could have 7 good things since that was the amount of bad things. it seems as if it was working his luck but then as it runs out he realizes that it is not only him but that everything happened during his good luck streak was coincidence.
I think that the story is very interesting. They start out by making you think that they are saying that there is such thing as a streak of luck. In the end when Jamie gets the girl he wanted for the date she told him how it seemed to be her lucky streak. That showed him that everybody has luck and that it was not just him. It was a life lesson to him that life has its ups and downs. Everybody will have what they call bad times and also good times. I think that anything bad or good is your own opinion and you decide what is good and what is bad. Something you find bad might not be bad for somebody else and instead it might be the best thing that has happened to them.
The message of the short story is that there is no such thing as luck. Jamie Farrell thinks that there is such thing as bad and good luck because he kept getting "bad" luck. After seven things that he considered as his bad luck, he finally has some good luck. He thought that he could do seven things as he wanted them to happen. In the end he realized that is isn’t like that and what happened to him that he called good luck were just coincidences.
1 comment:
great reaction and i agree with the message
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