In our lifetimes, life provides a problem, and we must find a solution.
Next, you have to decide whether to face the problem at hand, or ignore it. Let's say, in that the first scenario you face your problems, just as Barrett Mandel faced his problem "the inability of university students to write proficient papers. You get an after-school job; study just as hard, if not harder, than you have been; and make plans for the birth. In the second scenario you, again, face the problem. You talk to the doctor about your father's chances of surviving. He says there is little chance of him coming back into consciousness. So you, then, talk to your brother and your two sisters about the situation. Then you make the decision to pull the plug. In the third scenario, however, you ignore the problem and take no responsibility; as does Alice Walker's brother after shooting his sister in the story "Beauty: When the Other Dancer Is the Self- (30), and Ursula K. Le Guin when she ignores the dying beetle in her short story "Winged-. You had planned on doing the assignment, but you were on the last level of Tomb Raider. And once you had beaten that there was a Mudvayne concert on MTV2. Once you finally got around to doing it you just didn't feel like it. So you went out, partied, and passed out in the back of your friends El Comino. Everyone has to make a choice when dealt a problem. You choose accept the problem and take the rewards or turn away from the problem, usually taking on more in the process.
Finally you are rewarded accordingly to your chooses. In the first scenario you faced the problems you were presented with, you sacrificed your childhood to secure your child's future, and now you have a beautiful and loving baby girl. She will love you and care for you when you get older. You have made the right decision. Mandel too made the right decision when he wrote his paper. He accepted his problem and found a solution "addressing teachers and introducing new ways of learning.
