Lizy is the leading role of the film, she is a primary school student lived in miserable in her childhood ,both of her parent were drug addicted ,therefore she live in a family without enough food ,clothes even a good sleep . At home she could not had a peace life because her mom always loose her tempers when she could not get the drugs . At school , nobody play with her because of her smelly body and strange character ,everyone laugh at her throw trash to her in the schoolyard . In the world nobody care about her even her own parents . she always has to stay in the street and homeless , she was sent to the shelter later where she spent her childhood , never come out until she was sixteen . The shelter also not a better place for her , she live in terrible environment with crazy people ,she has to stand it !
However things turn to the corner , one day , she go to a very nice school and have an interview with the hope that stay there and acquire knowledge, the headmaster accepted her after seeing her composition and hearing her sad story . Lizy became extreme diligent after she got in that school, reading books when she was on the subway ,washing the plates or even walking ,she always the earliest to arrive the last to leave the classroom ! she not only finish four years academic lessons just in two ,but also the number one in her school ! nobody believes ! but she made it by sheer diligent !
Though she still homeless , but at least find a place suitable for her, where she can work hard for her own dream ! one day she found the scholarship of The New York Times, she applied it without hesitation. She was too poor to buy a formal clothes to go to the interview and ask her sister to borrow one . The topic of the interview is about how to conquer difficulties when you face it. She presented her experience to the juries and moved them deeply . At last she win the scholarship without doubt. And she could go to Harvard and The New York Times will pay the bill.
When the reporter asked her “Did you ever feel sorry for yourself ? sleeping in the subway eating out of dumpsters .”
“ That had always been my life and I really, I feel that I got luck, because any sensitive security was pulled out from under me , so I was forced to look forward . I had to ….there was no going back , and I reached a point where I just thought :Oh I am gonna work as hard as possibly can and see what happens ” everyone were touched by her remark and gave her a thunder of applaud .
Everyone in the life will of course face difficulties , someone get more while someone get less. Most of us just see too much difficulties but never see the hope though often very little . so we will complain about the hard life ,the humble origin and the unlucky experience in the life and so on ,we complain about about everything . we will find a lot of plausible pretext for ourselves why we could not succeed ! so we give up trying and never succeed .Lizy can succeed at last because she trust : where there is a will , there is a way ! she will flight for the one percent hope by one hundred percent hard work . The last but not least, she have no choices but flight ,otherwise she will live in miserable forever! Therefore ,when we have set a goal for us , we should not leave any back going .
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