<p>For college essays, is it better to write about how you have transformed because of a certain incident or how despite all hardships, you endured them?</p>
<p>Let's say for example (I'm going to use the same situation in two different ways): </p>
<p>1) Rachel had a mother who was mute and used to be taunted by everyone around her, so she greatly resented her mother for years. Even though Rachel is very cold to her mother, mom is still very warm-hearted and caring towards her and eventually, Rachel realizes how narrow-minded and cruel she was to her mother. Then, Rachel tries to change for the better and etc. </p>
<p>OR</p>
<p>2) Rachel was always taunted by her peers because her mother was mute, but despite the tribulations, Rachel kept her head held up high and stayed understanding and forgiving towards her mother and the people who were mean to her.</p>