This response letter belongs to Anthony Houhoulis’ story “A New Beginning.” The story is about a college student name Aaron going back to Los Angeles for the Thanksgiving break, meanwhile he is having conflicting feelings about his past choices and tries to return what one was lost. The story is trying to tell us many things such as, the problems of choices, haunting past, not satisfied with current life, and the power of hope. The story contains many elements that work very well, and that I enjoyed will reading it. The characters in this story, especially Aaron, were very believable. Aaron shows a lot about him in the first page without saying much, like how he acts while been waiting for the airplane to take off. Also, what makes Aaron