Living in the slum, a mom Sara Goldfarb
and her son were loser in life.
Sara were middle aged, fat and floppy,
who suffered from endless requirement
for money from her son.
Her son Harry were never grown up
and kept squeezing her out to feed himself with drug.
Poverty,chaos,and drugs were also the theme of
a poor girl¡¯s life.
Liz parents were drug addicts who spent all their welfare checks
on cocaine, leaving her behind surviving from dust heap.
It seems like both Sara and Liz
will be trapped in the lamentable situation forever.
But one day,phone call broke into Sara's life.
She was chosen to join a TV show.
She was overjoyed.
She wanted to be the star in that stage,
with her favorite red dress,
which represented her golden age of life.
She could also introduce her good son and gone husband.
But she found that she was too fat to fit the red dress.
She decided to lose weight.Sara went on a diet,
with no sugar,no meet.
She was as angry as hawk.
As for Liz, AIDS was ruining her mother¡¯s health.
She took care of her baby-like mom, burdened with grief.
To make things worse, Liz was swept out
like rubbish by her grandpa,
forcing her to seek a life-line alone.
No warm shelter. No chance for playing knife and fork.
No chance to prick up herself.
And Sara, couldn¡¯t stand the starvation any more.
In order to take a shot cut, she turned to a doctor for help.
Sara began to take weight-loss pills,
which enables her to glut herself with delicacies.
Taking the effective medicine regularly,
Sara got her weight down successfully.
Liz¡¯s mom slept her final sleep.
Determined to climb out the place she was born,
where everyone was angry and tired,
Liz pushed herself as hard as possible to reach a better life.
She knew clearly there¡¯s no shot cut.
She had to step onto the thorny Road of honor.
To attain more significant effect,
Sara couldn¡¯t help taking more medication every time and
seems like got addicted to it, just like her son.
At the same time, Liz tried hard to attain a scholarship.
Her faith was so strong
that even her best friend¡¯s bad word couldn¡¯t stop her.
Sara was eventually schizophrenic from overdose.
She ended her pathetic life in hospital,
dreaming about being a TV star.
Liz finally pulled off a number of
such impressive academic feats
that life awarded her a promising life.
What makes Liz different from Sara?
I think, the hard things are the easiest things to avoid.
To excuse away.
To pretend like they don¡¯t apply to you.
But those are the things that define you.
Those are the things that make the difference
between living a life of mediocrity or outrageous success.