Emma is a seventeen-year-old girl living at home with her parents and in her senior year of high school. She is part of National Honors Society and enjoys helping out in her community. She currently does not have a job, but she is very active with school activities.
Emma was always a reader starting at a very young age. As she has grown, so has her taste in books. She has always been fascinated by sociology and psychology. Human relationships interest her greatly. She is the vice president of an outreach program that tries to help troubled families. She feels fulfilled from her work.
Emma is already filling out applications for colleges, and she is having a hard time declaring her major. She is torn between psychology, sociology, or just getting into the field of being a social worker. She plans on getting a job near her college to help her parents pay the bills. She has applied as a receptionist to several companies. When she does have extra time on her hands, Emma is either campaigning or helping her community.
Concepts
Shattered Hope
Shattered –to break into pieces
- to damage, impair, destroy, weaken, burst, crack, crush, ruin, splinter, wreck, fragment
Hope - the feeling that what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best, a particular instance of this feeling, a person or thing in which expectations are centered: The medicine was her last hope.
- desire, believe, trust, anticipation, aspiration, faith, goal, gain, security, stock, life, wish, optimism, prospect, promise
Hopeful Fear
Hopeful – full of hope, expressing hope – promising a bright future/success/advantage
- assured, at ease, buoyant, calm, cheerful, comfortable, content, confident, eager, elated, enthusiastic, light-hearted, serene, trusting
Fear - a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid/concern or anxiety; solicitude/a specific instance of or propensity for such a feeling
- agitation, alarm, apprehension, anxiety, aversion, concern, doubt, distress, dread, nightmare, panic, scare, suspicion, terror, trepidation, worry, uneasy, shudder, shun, flinch, fret, falter, despair
Beautiful Agony
Beautiful - having beauty; having qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about/wonderful; very pleasing or satisfying
- attractive, fair, lovely, pretty, alluring, angelic, appealing, divine, elegant, stunning, sublime, charming, classy, radiant
Agony - extreme and generally prolonged pain; intense physical or mental suffering/the struggle preceding natural death: mortal agony/ a display or outburst of intense mental or emotional excitement
- affliction, anguish, distress, misery, torment, torture
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