When we read the story American Childhood we saw an example of that. When Annie finally sees the amoeba she is ecstatic so she goes upstairs to invite her parents to come and look at it. Her parents then kindly tell her that they aren’t interested in seeing the amoeba, this causes Annie to realize that it doesn’t matter what other people think as long as she is doing what she loves. Scrooge in Christmas Carol also goes through a significant change with the help of other people. After Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future Scrooge decides to turn his life around for the better. Sometimes personal realizations cause physical changes, we see an example of this is “At the Crossroads”. When Nick Kleckner realizes that his life has no purpose and he isn’t growing as a person he decides to walk from Jacksonville, Florida all the way back to Huntington Beach, California. Personal realizations appear in many ways and cause lots of