Even the Smallest Pebbles Can Create the Biggest Ripples in the Water When Thrown

The theme of The Friday Everything Changed is:

“A movement seldom happens overnight. For the most part, a change in attitude is brought about by small actions.”

The story proves this statement to be true because the conflict over the rights of the water bucket and gender inequality weren’t solved just as soon as Alma asked her question. The conflict was solved by the actions of Ms. Ralston saying she would consider the question, the girls standing up to the boys who were threatening them, and then finally, Ms. Ralston hitting the home-run which represented her defeating the gender inequality in the school. The evidence that her actions had a big impact on gender inequality were proven when she says on page 11, “”Next week Alma Niles and Joyce Shipley will go for the water.” When she announced that, none of boys the even protested against the fact that the girls would have the same right as they did now. Even though at first, they had protested a lot by the idea when it was first brought up by harassing the girls. Another character that shares the same message is Gandalf and he quotes:

“Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check. But that is not what I have found. I have found that it is the small everyday deeds if ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.”

This quote relates to the theme of the story because Ms. Ralston was just an ordinary person but her actions such as considering Alma’s question and hitting the home-run all added up to a big impact. The quote also relates to how these small actions were able to keep the schools conflict over gender inequality from continuing. However, there are many other ordinary people in real life whose small everyday acts had a big impact on us. Like my uncle who’s a police officer. Although I just consider him my uncle, he’s always doing his job everyday working with the RCMP and even though it’s not the most safest career, his small everyday actions of his job have helped society. Even though my uncle and Ms. Ralston are different in several ways, their small everyday acts have both had a big impact for the better.