When Jacob Jankowski decides to stow away on a circus train in Water for Elephants, his choice alters the course of his life. When Miss Skeeter decides to involve “the help” as sources for a book she decides to write in The Help, that choice affects all of their lives. When Ebenezer Scrooge decides to take the painful and frightening advice of three spirits, his life, and the lives of others, are changed from that point forward in A Christmas Carol. Choices. We make them every day. Choices such as whether to add a stick of butter to our bread, to water the flowers, to make a run to the…