Importance Of Education: Make Lemonade

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Can you imagine you living your life without education? Do you believe you would need much education to live a fairly easy life? Many people may not think about it, but education and the art of learning is a large chunk of our lives that we take for granted. Make Lemonade is a story that displays education to be an immense necessity in people’s lives, especially young people’s lives, and without it life can prove to be very difficult and hard on the person with little to no education in their lives. Things that can make this difficult is home life, your own motivation, and your current situation.
College is LaVaughn’s main goal in life, which has been majorly supported by her mom. LaVaughn demonstrates the importance of college by saying it is a word in her house and “you have to walk around it like furniture”( 9), which helps display how big …show more content…
LaVaughn’s life in the beginning of the book merely consists of school, homework, and sleep. LaVaughn asked her mom when she was little if she could go to college; which was the start of her daily cycle of school, homework, and sleep. When she begins to babysit for Jolly’s children, it is a little difficult for LaVaughn to convince her mom that this job will be good for her. Her mom has a hesitancy toward this job and lists many cons such as, “That’s a lot of changing LaVaughn.” and also “all the wiping and the feeding and your social studies and your math and all too.” ( 18). Her mom is always focused on her education, and how whatever she does will affect it. She doesn’t want LaVaughn to take a job if it will impact her education negatively. Her mom is also worried about her ability to multitask and handle the job. She knows from her experience that children are a lot of work, and worries that LaVaughn isn’t ready for that responsibility yet. Jolly has very little education due to her
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