In the world today, everywhere you look you see something that has the potential to influence you. Whether this influence comes from a book, a teacher, or a movie it has the ability to change the way you view the world. I have run into a numerous amount of these life-changing influences in my seventeen short years of life. One novel in particular has especially influenced me on my journey through life. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, taught me a great deal about myself. The most important way that this novel influenced me was by helping me to realize how accommodating my life real…
