It's Worth the Fight

Authors Note: This is a 5 paragraph essay to score a 9 or higher in theme and text analysis for my goals.

            Have you ever lost something incredibly important before; such as your two best friends? In the novel “Sent” by Margret Peterson Haddix, Jonah and his little sister Kathrine go back in time to save their two best friends. The theme of Regain of Friendship is huge in this novel. This theme is important for many reasons such as, you should always keep your friends close, once you have your friends it is good to never lose them, and the fact that it is their best friends. Many people can relate to this too, for instance, many people in the world, or even in Asa Clark Middle School lose friends every day. They may not want to lose them but it is important that if you do lose your friend, get them back.

            First off, when you lose a friend it is always hard. In “Sent” they actually “lose” their friends. They lose them because they go back in time on accident and then have no way back. In real life it might be that you get in a fight and lose them and feels like you’re going back in time when you didn’t even know them. In the novel, they do whatever they have too to get them back. They go back in time themselves to get them. In real life it feels like that but you should try to get them. This is text to world because it happens every day but in the book the make it feels like the end of the world, to some people, that is what it could feel like.

            Secondly, you should always keep your friends close in real life because once you lose them it might be the last time that they talk to you. For Jonah in “Sent” he didn’t want that to happens so he had to do whatever he could to get them from being out of his life for the rest of his life. That happens in real life but most everybody would rather it didn’t, if somebody had no friends, they wouldn’t want to have friends and possibly do bad things to themselves or to others. Sure in “Sent” Jonah has other friends, but he lost his best friends and would do anything he can to get them.

            And lastly, anybody would do anything to help out their best friend no matter what happened to them; whether it be they break their spine and are put in a wheelchair, or they get in a car accident a loose their arms and legs. It shouldn’t matter what happened to them, you should always be there to help. For Jonah, he travel back in time to the 15^th century, went into an epic battle that was a life or death situation, and managed to get back alive and safely.

            In conclusion, the theme of Regain of Friendship is a big theme to this novel and this novel can relate in a way to text to world because it is kind of saying that you should keep your friends close because once you lose them it is hard to get them back. Jonah goes through something that is physically impossible to get his best friends back, people in real life may have be able to do the easiest things ever to get them back, but either way, don’t lose your friends.