Choose Love

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“You must choose love. Always choose love.”
                                 -From Daniel's Story by Carol Matas
         This quote is something that many people live by. Daniel's Story takes place during the Holocaust, and is about a Jewish boy named Daniel who had to live through the Holocaust. In order to survive, he had to choose love, and not give up. In many books, characters often believe in valuing love over everything else.
         What does "choosing love" mean? There are many things that can be interpreted from this statement. It may not mean love as in girlfriend and boyfriend love, but sometimes it is. It may mean friendship, or family love. When given the option of death or living like during the Holocaust, some people may have lost everything including their family and friends. While others may have had some of their loved ones left. This will make people want to live because they still have people who care about them left in the world. So, "choosing love" means to keep going in life even if their situation is bad.
         "Choosing love" is like a rainbow smiling down on the world after a huge storm.* Even though terrible things happened, you decided to continue on in your life in order to keep your loved ones, and close friends happy, and make them want to live as well. "Choosing love" is like breathing in harmonic hearings of hope when horrific hassles are happening.** Love gives people to will, and desire to live even when things are down. They will be inspired by other people's love of them, and their love for them to continue going for them.
         I believe that one of the things that keeps everyone going in the world is love. Parents go to work, and make money in order for their children, who they love dearly, to have the best life they can have. Friends stick together in order for them to find sunshine after they get through difficult situations. "Choosing love" keeps the world running, and without it, the world will stop turning, the sun will burn out, and life will not exist as we know it.
*Sentence is a simile and personification      **Sentence is a simile and alliteration

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