One day, Mr. Tickham gave Mrs. Tickham a vacuum cleaner as a birthday present, but when Mrs. Tickham tried it out it sucked up many things, including a squirrel. When her neighbor Flora saw what happened she went over and saved the squirrel’s life. But the squirrel changed and he became intelligent. Then, Flora adopted him and named him Ulysses. But Ulysses got Flora into some trouble. After a few days, Flora’s mother kidnapped Ulysses and tried to kill him, but he escaped. In the end, they made peace. We can learn several things from this story.
Families can’t form if family members don’t agree with each other. In a family, the family members must have different personalities and perspectives. But that does not mean that the family is not agreeable. Being different is ok, but not agreeing with each other cannot make a happy and agreeable family. In some cases, parents divorce because they don’t agree with each other, some people might not feel love and some are not loving. This can cause many problems in the family. In the story, Flora’s mother was not loving, and Flora’s father seemed to be not able to feel love, this caused them to divorce, which caused Flora to not believe in love. So, in a family, it’s ok to be different, but it’s not ok to disagree with your family members.
In order to mature quickly and to quickly understand your family members and others, you should learn to do many things. First, you should learn to compromise, you should think of others and tolerate others. Second, you should learn to understand others’ love and feelings. In the story, Dr. Meescham helps Flora to understand her father's love, and Flora found out that her father had a capacious heart and tolerates a lot, this made her love her father more. Third, we should learn to understand loneliness, sometimes loneliness makes us do bad things, we should understand that. Last, we should learn to believe. We should believe in love, we should not be like Flora and be a cynic. If we don’t believe in love, we cannot love our family members. So, these are the things that we should learn in order to mature.
Loneliness can make us do bad things, they also can have bad consequences or influences. For example, loneliness might make you attack people. You might want to do anything to get close to them but in the end, you might end up harming them. In the story, there was a picture of a giant squid attacking a boat. The squid was lonely so it attacked the boat. Next, loneliness can make us become not loving. In the story, Flora’s father and Flora’s mother seemed to be not loving because they were sort-of lonely, this made Flora to not believe in love. So, loneliness has bad consequences.
In conclusion, this story talks about a girl named Flora and a squirrel named Ulysses. One day Flora adopts Ulysses, but her mother doesn’t approve of it and tries to kill Ulysses, but Ulysses escapes. Even though Ulysses got Flora into some trouble, Flora still loved Ulysses. The few things that we learned from this story is: one, being different is ok, but not agreeing with your family members cannot make an agreeable family; second, in order to have personal growth, you should learn to compromise, learn to understand loneliness and others’ feelings, and learn to believe; third, loneliness can make you do bad things and have bad consequences. Overall, this story was interesting and meaningful.
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