Chad Foster’s “Teenagers Preparing for the real world” Essay

Chad Fosters book Teenagers Preparing for the Real World, is a great motivational piece for teens and leaves a lasting fancy on the reader. In the chapter Mr. X and Mr. hot seat, Foster instills the importance of contacts and friendship in a persons life. His example of Mr. X shows kids that a friendship make in a persons younger years can pay off greatly down the road, emotionally and even financially. He thencece tells the tale of his fathers first experience in the work world, where he met two men, had a brief friendship for a few months, then moved.Foster senior continued to correspond with these men for the next thirty years, never even seeing each other. As it turns out, one of these men was President George Bush and Foster had the opportunity to meet him in person. This story is significant because it shows that everyone grows up to be someone in the world, and someday you just might penury to be their contact. Overall, this is a very well put together chapter and defiantl y leaves an impression on the reader.