The solutions to Component 1 can be found under the section "Solutions." This teaching model refers to the following text edition: Schöningh, Order No.: 041164. The most important thing in life is to learn how to fall. The protagonist Lily hears this sentence very early in her childhood, and life teaches her how to get back in the saddle after a fall. Bravely, she defies all adversities and consistently transforms personal defeats and mistakes into a better future. In this novel, author Jeannette Walls processes the childhood and life of her grandmother in the harsh West of the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century. Unsentimental yet vivid, she allows her heroine to narrate in the first person, embarking on the trail of the American myth of success and self-fulfillment. The novel, published in 2009, is suitable for reading.