Once I had to help my friend Louie. We were at my house and he forgot to turn off the lights in his old pickup. He went to start it and it wouldn't turn, he realized he had left his lights on. I brought my pickup over to try to start his pickup. I wasted a quarter tank of gas revving my truck to try to provide more power. At this point we gave up, we then realized we could start his pickup. I pulled his truck with my truck over the hump to my sloping driveway. He started up, disengaged the clutch and off he went. Being able to help someone is a great advantage in life. I love helping people and being able to help my friend in times of need is a great pleasure in my life. When he started that truck, it was a great feeling of relief that we had made it. People will always need help with something, which is why there is more than one person in the world. This experience makes me realize that everyone has their time of need and if you help them, they will help you in your time of need. Overcoming obstacles like this just shows us another lesson, “Whether you think you can or you think you can. 't, you're right. –Henry Ford This quote explains my experience because we were going to give up and that was what was right, we thought we couldn't, but we kept trying and found out we could. The subjects of the assigned literature represent the distance between personal traits, from courageous to nefarious to those with less dramatic characteristics. Man in the Water is the story of a plane that crashes into the Potomac River and the last survivors float in the river. water awaiting rescue. The water is freezing and the helicopter arrives and sends a life buoy and only one man is kept passi...... middle of paper ... to the infamous and those with less dramatic characteristics. Being able to help someone is what I love to do, helping people makes me happy and feel good about myself. When I was helping my friend he really needed someone to help him because you shouldn't have to do everything yourself, every once in a while you could use a helping hand. Little things help a lot, even if you don't think it will help you, whether you notice it or not, they will. Works cited by BeoWulf. Trans. Burton Raffel. Literature and language. Ed. Arthur N. Applebee et al. Evanston, IL: McDougal, 1992. 22-30. Print. “Robin Hood and the three squires. » Literature and language. Ed. Arthur N. Applebee et al. Evanston, IL: McDougal, 1992. 91-94. Print.Roger. “The man in the water”. Literature and language. Ed. Arthur N. Applebee et al. Evanston, IL: McDougal, 1992. 62-64. Print.