A Long Way Home By Saroo Brierley

Firstly, Saroo experiences a lack of identity and belonging. Saroo came from a very loving family in India. He always felt like he belonged, but that all changed when he was adopted by fair skinned parents, being 5 and dark skinned completely different to his family would be confusing. At some points frustrating, Saroo questioned whether he belonged or not, “I did I become the Saroo who used to live on the streets Calcutta rather than just Saroo, mostly wanted to be just Saroo.” This evidently shows that not just Saroo noticed something different about his home life, this put Saroo under a llot of stress. Sarro has had multiple troubles with wanting to find his family, Saroo’s peers really pushed him in the right direction to weather finding

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The Long Way Home was written by David Laskin, an author who attended Harvard and earned a bachelors in history and literature. He later studied at Oxford where he obtained a masters in English. Laskin was an editor for Bantam Books, a publishing company. After editing for some time, he decided to become his own freelance writer, publishing many books later on. In The Long Way Home, Laskin covers the lives and struggles of twelve immigrants that left what they had behind for a better life in America to excel in the war efforts . Laskin suggests that through their hard times, they are the more willing, and diligent to fight for their families, and for their new mother country.

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The extraordinary journey of Saroo Brierley returning to his home in India after living in Australia for twenty-five years is expressed with emotion and feeling in A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley. The journey of the five-year-old boy from Burhanpur to Calcutta in India is heart-wrenching and terrifying. Because of his encounters in the book, the story feels amazing and unreal. Saroo was influenced by many people in India and Australia, who helped him throughout his life. Two of the most important people in Saroo’s life were Saroj Sood, of the Indian Society for Sponsorship and Adoption, and Sue Brierley, his adoptive mother.

While waiting, he wandered into an empty train and fell asleep, only to be awaken with the train in motion, hurtling him far away from home. Ending more than 1,500 miles away in Kolkata - a bizarre, hysterical city, whose dialect he didn't talk - Saroo is lost in an apparently miserable circumstance. Narrowly avoiding being kidnapped, and with no paper trail or family name, he ended up in a local orphanage, from where he was eventually adopted by a couple in Australia, starting a new life on another continent. Paradoxically suggests that Saroo managed to go two decades without thinking much about his mother, only to become obsessed with finding her at just the moment the technology made that possible. When college friends suggested using the

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Saroo Brierley, an Indian and Australian businessman, is known for his famous experience of becoming lost as a young child in Calcutta. He is remembered as the poor, uneducated child who was separated from his biological mother and found his way back home after twenty-five years. His inspirational story is detailed in his memoir A Long Way Home and became popular internationally, especially in Australia and India.