This week my class read an amazing book called Drums Girls and Dangerous Pie. The book was about an eighth grader named Steven whose brother Jeffrey gets leukemia, a type of blood cancer. At first, he thinks that it is only a joke and it was just a mistake. But as time passes he realizes that it's not fake and that he should spend time with him and sometimes Steven should make personal sacrifices for him big and small.
Steven made personal sacrifices such as when he had to kick Renee out of his house because he didn't want Jeffrey to get sick and have a greater chance of dying. This is a personal sacrifice because he had a crush on Renee and he had to get better grades in math and she was his tutor. She had a little cold and Steven didn't want to risk Jeffrey's health so he kicked her out and she had to walk through the snow back to her house. This proves that Steven has matured and made personal sacrifices.
Steven also made more important sacrifices for Jeffrey, one example of that is when he was in the middle of his big concert he was practicing for all year. In the intermission his brother threw up, before the concert the doctor had said that if he threw up, he had to go to the hospital. Steven promised that he would stay at his brother's side. He had to skip his big drum solo to stay with his brother. He knew that his brother needed him to be him. This shows that Steven matured throughout the book and he made big personal sacrifices for Jeffrey.
Throughout the book Steven has changed. At the begining of the book he thought that his brother didn't have cancer and that it was just a mistake. Now, by the end of the book Steven had matured by having made big and small personal sacrifices for Jeffrey. The examples I used were just some of the many sacrifices Steven made for Jeffrey. I wonder would have happened to Jeffrey if Steven haven't made personal sacrifices.
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