Remember that time you ate that spicy burger just before you went to bed on the night before the big Halloween party. Oh, that weird dream you had about the 2016 presidential election. When you woke up you couldn't quite remember the gory details, but after reading "On Self-Reliance" and "A Sound of Thunder" it's all coming back to you now.
The dream started badly. You were in line with your family at Walmart waiting to be sent to the library. Everywhere you looked there were posters of president-elect Waddle, looking like a crazy cheetah who could eat a whole chair.
Suddenly, there was Ralph Waldo Emerson telling you, "Greatness appeals to the future". You realized that you have something to contribute to the world so you decided to fight. But it wasn't easy. First you had to put on a fancy dress and hat and then you had to make a monkey go back in time to the mall so you could convince people to learn about the candidates and the deportation of immigrants.
But right there in the mall there was a giant bear and it started shouting at everyone. People started to cry. You grabbed a ball from a nearby shop and yelled "we have the power to be the bigger person". Everyone stopped and listened, so you kept going.
We as the next generation will change the world. Whether or not you believe so, we will do it. If you choose not to do your work, so be it. If you choose to make bad choices, so be it. Responsibility is inevitable and if we make the choice of facing responsibility now, determines our future. Even making that small decision of ditching a party to do a homework assignment shapes our future decisions. One experience I have had with this is I wrote an essay the day before it was due because I procrastinated. I sacrificed quality time with my family to do it and now I now that I have to make the right choices of doing my work beforehand so I can have fun. "On Self-Reliance" uses the example in hid first quote "Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still." This quote shows an example of the choices we make because it says that they can be good or bad, but it's really up to us. "A Sound of Thunder" shows a classic example of the choices we make now influence our future. With Eckels making the mistake of going off the path and literally changing the future, but not for good. It's up to us to make things better in the future by making he right choices now.
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