I read a story called 'Fall From University Grace,' by Marty J. Chan, and I've decided to compare this story with a picture, which I got off of an article by Judy Lin on Google images. Now the two share the same meaning, getting the mark 'F' will get you no where in life, but being mature, motivated, and setting goals for yourself in life will give you greater, thus giving you a future. In the story, it starts off with a metaphor, followed by the theme of the story. 'Just as Adam was cast out of Eden, I was kicked out of University; but while his transgression was eating the fruit from the tree of knowledge, my sin was ignoring the tree.' After my dismal performance in my first year of University, I contemplated the reasons for my failure. The character is stating how they went to their first year of University and had a horrible year, because they did terrible in their courses due to the actions that they caused, thus receiving a terrible mark, and failing the year. Now the characters downfall was because of the following:
1) Lack of a career goal + premature independence
2) Immaturity
3) Lack of direction + motivation
4) Abuse of freedom
5) Procrastination + Distraction
6) Leading fast paced life
The character created these traits, and caused the problem them self, and now they look back thinking about what they did for this to happen, and to never do it again, but to improve. The picture shows a blank-lined booklet with two pencils, and a 'big fat F' on it. This shows traits such as no-motivation, and something like that can lead into a habit, which can cause you to not care, and receive multiple 'F's.' Most people in life, will at least say 'no one likes a failure,' to themselves or someone else. This here proves that you should always try your hardest to the best of your ability, but at the very least be bother to try the work, instead of just leaving it and becoming a 'failure.'
