Life
Life is a gift, given to many, lived by few. People take life for granted, never realizing what a gift they have with food, clothing, and shelter. Money isn't the only thing in life, ans each person has something worth living for.
The choice of the life you will live, lays in your hands, in the choices you make as a human being. Scarred by your own intentions of evil and good, you can only do so much to live a happy life. Everyone has a silver lining in their few years of living, a gold thread among the bare. But everyone also has a black curtain, a shadowing of their own troubled years. With the needed balance of evil and good, people must decide if they are going to turn that weight more towards one side.

Living in a life of poverty and hunger, Francie’s mother, Katie, does what she can to educate her children to live a less scarred life. But Katie cannot hide her from everything, the ugliness of life cannot be avoided. There is a scene where Francie wants to help her mother in her time of hardship and pregnancy. She is about to reach into a bucket of water to help clean when her mother stops her. “No, don’t put your hands in that water. It is made of soda and lye. Look what it has done to my hands. I don’t want your hands to get like that.” As water is a symbol of life, and hands are what you have done, Katie doesn’t want Francie’s life to be ruined by the evil and cruelty. Katie wants to save Francie.

As the choice of life lays in your hands, many people wish you well in those choices, while others try to deceive you. Francie is learning to stand strong against life, just as we all should. The choice you make will either weaken you to your knees and strengthen you for harder times yet to come.