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The main idea of the autobiography __Miles to Go__ by Miley Cyrus is to enlighten the public on who she really is. Miley Cyrus is a sixteen year old girl who has become an international superstar through a little show called __Hannah Montana__. Through the three seasons of the Disney Channel's hit television show she has had many fans of all ages all around the world who can't get enough of her, they want to know more and more about her. This book gives that to them, it explains Miley's childhood, her audition process and life on set of __Hannah Montana__. It gives the public a close up on how a superstar became a superstar, and how she lives her life, while still being a teenage girl. Miley Cyrus is a huge part of history and society in this generation.

Miley Cyrus not only relates to history, but she is history. Everyone knows the name Miley Cyrus either through her TV show, her music on the radio, her clothing line, and now even her autobiography. She has accomplished so much in her life time already that she can write a 266 paged book about it. She has an estimated $25 million earnings (Guinness Book of World Records, 2010), and she hasn't even graduated high school yet! In her last tour, //Best of Both Worlds// where she performed as herself and as Hannah Montana, she sold out every city she performed in with tickets selling in the thousands. She is like the Madonna of this generation, where everyone knows and loves her music. Miley is helping shape what our future will be like because history shapes the future. Miley is the perfect example that kids should follow their dreams. Miley says in her book, “I knew it was too much to hope for, but Hannah Montana was my dream role, and it was closer then ever. I wasn’t about to give up now.” (p. 38). The ambition that lead her to feel that way helped her get that role, if she hadn’t fought for it, the role probably wouldn’t have been hers in the end. She goes through rough times where society rips her to shreds, but she never lets it bring her down. This attitude will show kids now and in the future to never give up and follow their dreams. More people will be doing what they had always wished of because they saw that it wasn’t impossible, and Miley Cyrus helped make that happen. She will go down in history as an international phenomenon that shaped the mid 20th century.

I coach girls in kindergarten and first grade for cheerleading and everyday there is at least one girl with a Hannah Montana shirt. They all love her and whenever my "Party in the USA" ringtone goes off, which is one of Miley's songs, they all stop what they're doing and start dancing and singing. Why are these girls so fascinated with Miley and her fame? The answer to that question is simple, they look up to her and they want to be like her. Miley has everything in the world and girls can relate to her. Her music is about boys, losing a grandparent, and just having fun, things that everyone goes through and can relate to. She has confidence, ambition, and she never gave up, she kept following her dream of becoming a performer. Miley is just like any girl in your chemistry class; she goes through break ups, makes crazy //Youtube// videos, and takes funny pictures with her best friend during sleepovers but, that girl in your chemistry class doesn’t have to deal with paparazzi and the press making up stories about her. Our society is obsessed with what celebrities are doing and the way they live their lives. They especially try to find the negative things and blow them up when ordinary people in the world are doing the same things, they do this all for the money. Our society is okay with taking one little thing and twisting it all which ways just for a few extra dollars, no matter how it affects and most likey hurts the person it's about. To the press, it's all about the story and so a scandal makes for better money and for a better story and our society just eats it up. There was a photo spread in the magazine //Vanity Fair// where Miley was laying her head on her father’s lap. The press freaked out over this saying it was very sexual. Since when have children not been able to do that? Society twists many rumors and negates them. This shows that we have a very negative society, and we are just looking for the bad in everyone and in every situation instead of focusing on the positive things, especially when it involves money.

One good thing about our society is that they accept people at all ages. Many years ago women didn’t have rights, and now young teenage women are taking over the world with their fame. Our society is very judgmental, but it is also open to having young kids help shape it in the ways they feel are right. To our society fame is fame, and age doesn’t matter. This also helps kids shape the society and not only leave it up to the adults. Our society let’s kids take a bigger stand and become more involved, like the way Miley has. At multiple times in her book Miley states that,” If I’m gonna be in the spotlight, I want to use my powers for good.” (p.244). On this particular page she is talking about her birthday party in Disneyland where she had 5,000 fans attend, but they had to pay $250 each, but it all went to a good cause. Every single dollar of that money went to Youth Service America. Acts like this inspire people to help the community and important causes and young kids are doing it now, which means in the future it will continue. If all of society disliked Miley Cyrus, she most likely wouldn’t have become so famous, so events like her birthday party would have never happened and wouldn’t show other kids the good that they can do. Society opened up and is letting young people take over and its helping open the eyes of many other people.

Miley Cyrus is just a normal teenage girl like me except, she is a superstar. Miley wrote this book to show everyone that she isn’t all glamour and glitz. She goes through normal issues like everyone else, and the only difference is her fame. She gets to be a role model for young kids while living her dream at the same time. In the book she says, “This [acting and singing] had been my dream for about as long as I can remember.” (p. 55). She has always known what she wanted to do in her life, and now she can share that with the people of our society and show them that she is real and she can help many people, especially kids on her journey. Miley Cyrus is going down in history as we speak for not only her fame, but for how she has helped shaped society.