Blog 6

A Million Little Pieces is a book about hope. The autobiography follows the author James Frey through his  difficult time in rehab. James arrives at the rehabilitation center with a hole in his cheek, four broken teeth and a broken nose. He makes no effort to improve because he feels there is no way that he is going to get better. He has no hope for his future. Then he meets a woman named Lilly, she is also at the rehab center. Although there is a strict rule against interaction with the opposite sex, Lilly and James meet. James has a strong bond with Lilly and they talk about their lives after rehab. James starts to improve, he has hope that his future will be better because Lilly will be in it. Hope pushes people, it make them want to do better, be stronger. With out hope life would go no where. Like Coleridge said, "Work without hope draws nectar in a sieve, and hope without an object cannot live".