Please help. Mac won't start.

Please help me. I have no AppleCare so I can't call them.
My mother bought me a MacBook pro earlier this year but we didn't purchase apple care. Right now I'm having a problem with startup. Everytime I try to start my MacBook Pro up, it automatically goes to os x utilities. It never did this before and I don't know what to do. Can someone please walk me through how to get my computer back to normal? I really can't afford another computer right now.

If it's less then a year old it's still under warranty and Apple will fix it free. In fact you can go to the apple.com, support and chat with someone who could probably tell you how to fix it.

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