“Change” by Sophia Sagar is a memoir that beautifully describes a day in the author’s life that inspired and difference. The piece depicts the author browsing through the isles of a Best Buy, looking for some new headphones, when a woman stops him and introduces herself as a homeless person who was only trying to get back to her family. Sophia Sagar offers the homeless woman a hug and say that the woman felt thin and cold, as if she had been outside with no food for a while. The author reaches into her wallet and pulls out all she has: “no dollar bills, just change.” She apologizes for not having much, for she is only 15 years old. As the homeless woman learned the age of the girl, she, immediately, begged for forgiveness and said that she never would’ve bothered the girl if she knew she was 15. The author ends the perfectly written memoir with a generous note to the homeless woman, which reassures readers that they can always change for the good and that it is never too late.

As a teenage girl, living in New York City,I can relate to Sophi Sagar. I see people sitting on the ground, with a cardboard sign explaining why they are where they are, at every corner. Although I have never stopped to talk to one, I know it’s not easy for them because, as the author quotes the homeless woman, “I’m trying to get home to my family, but Texas cops aren’t really nice to homeless people.” As the author concludes her superb memoir about a woman in Best Buy, who changed a life, she includes a note, specific to that woman, hopeful that she reads it. This shows that the author wrote this piece to show the homeless woman from Best Buy that she cares and others should, too.