Small Steps

Small Steps is a runoff of one of the characters from the book Holes. The Character Armpit is finally home from the awful juvenile Camp Green Lake. This was a total lie because it was not green and there was no lake. That is kind of like Greenland, it is more icy than Green. It might confuse people because maybe they didn’t know this fact when they were prepared to go there and they packed all wrong. I didn’t know this fact, did you? Any way now that Armpit is home he is on this way to correct his life and no one can stop him not even a famous girl that comes into his life. Maybe that’s how love happens when you least expect it. Armpit for sure didn’t expect it.

Armpit didn’t meet his love till halfway through the book. Let me catch you up though till this point. Counseling is where the story begins. I think the advice the counselor gives Armpit is really good and it sends a good message.  “Life is like walking upstream in a rushing river.  The secret was to take small steps and just keep moving forward. If you try to make too big of a step the current would knock him down and bring him right back down stream.” I think this means set little goals in life and keep completing each one so it’s easier to get where you want to go.

Some of these small steps were to get a job, graduate from high school, save money, avoid situations that might turn violent, and loose the name Armpit. Throughout this book Armpit counteracts pretty much all of his goals. But somehow it all ends up being good in the end like any other book. Although it ended up being all good in the end there were lots of ups and downs to get to the place he wanted to be. This was right by the side of the love of his life Kaira DeLeon. They have moments where it seems as if this could never work out between them other times it seemed destiny. I guess all these relationships have these times though. It’s really special that there’s could pull through all that happened. Which was a lot but you have to read the book to find out the specifics.

Over all I thought this book was really good. I loved the plot there was action but also romance. The moral or message of the book was incredible. I loved that saying, it really motivates me. In this book everything seemed pretty bad at the moment but Armpit kept taking his small steps and got love when he least expected it. Which love is a wonderful ending to a great story.