Culminating Essay Brainstorming

Along the lines of the prompt, I am going to incorporate the media I chose to tell a story about how to overcome a challenge when something bad happens to you and relate it to events in my own life. In all my movies and books I chose, something traumatic happens to every character (Lady Bird coming of age and struggling to accept her true self, Jane Eyre enduring abuse from her aunt, Bauby having a stroke, etc.) So I'm using these to relate to my own recent struggles.

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