agency and adopted by an Australian couple. Although it seems like fiction, it is fact. This remarkable story is Saroo Brierley’s, and his memoir A Long Way Home, tells this miraculous story of his childhood and how he came to find his birth family. Throughout the memoir, Brierley weaves a tale of his hardships and developing his identity. In his memoir A Long Way Home, Saroo Brierley uses the literary devices of pacing, imagery, and external conflict to illustrate how the hardships one must endure
Review: A Long Way Home Imagine a five-year-old child who is a thousand miles away from home, lost and frightened. He has no idea what his full name is, where he lives, nor how to get back to his family. This is exactly what happened to Saroo Brierley. 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
a book called A Long Way Home, written by Saroo Brierley, imagery and internal conflict are used to portray how one’s perseverance contributes to the accomplishment of their goal and success of their future. The author uses imagery to reveal Saroo’s long journey of searching for his home and how he refuses to give up. Saroo uses a situation with his girlfriend, Lisa, to show how determined he is when he says “I went out with Lisa sometimes, of course, but the moment we got home I was back on the
detail on the Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Model. And explains why it is a very important part to take into account in the nursing profession. It ties all these concepts into several situations occurring in the book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley. Transcultural Preparedness in Nursing Nursing is a profession that deals with all kinds of patients and by default deals with a vast number of different cultures, values, and morals. Also because it is a profession that deals with illness
autobiography “Saroo Brierley, Lion A Long Way Home” depicts his extraordinary life as a child and as an adult. Saroo Brierley an Indian-born australian man at the age of five was separated from his family and was lost on a train that changed his life forever. Saroo Brierley was born Sheru Munshi Khan in Ganesh Talai. When Saroo was young his father left his family for his second wife in a muslim community in India leaving him and his family to survive on their own. At age five Saroo and his brother
Imagine, twenty five years without knowing if your family is still alive. Twenty five years you have lived away from home. Spending a majority of your life not being able to kiss your mother, nor your siblings. A Long Way Home is an autobiography based on the story of five-year-old Sheru Munshi Khan, who finds himself lost in Calcutta, the capital of India (his country of origin). Sheru had intended that he would just tag along with his brother, Guddu, as he ventured to Khandwa for his work on the
“The thing about being brave is it doesn’t come with the absence of fear and hurt. Bravery is the ability to look fear and hurt in the face and say move aside, you are in the way” (Melissa Turnino). This quote shows how people just need to stand up and be brave and face adversity. The meaning of bravery is “the state of having or showing mental or moral strength to face danger, fear, and difficulty”. There are several different synonyms for bravery like “courage”, “valor”, and “fearlessness”. Also