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I think that our choices do matter.  Deanna might have thought near the end of the novel that her choices didn't matter because she realized she could not control how Eddie Bondo thought or acted.  However, the last line of the book is "Every choice is a world made new for the chosen."  Our choices about how someone else should be does not necessary have the ability to change them, but it still have the potential to.  Any choice Deanna makes, or I make or anyone makes, is going to affect something or someone, somewhere.

Even though thousands upon thousands of people voted today, my vote still counted.  It doesn't feel like my vote alone will make all the difference, but my vote along with others votes will help choose a very important aspect of everyones lives.

Every choice I make directly affects my life at least.  My choice to come to college will have an immense impact on my life.  And even on a very small level, my choice to be sitting in collier library right now and working on my homework will affect the amount of work I have tomorrow and therefore my stress level.  I think that this course has proven to me even more that my choices do matter.