A Long Way Home Short Story

Adversities are a natural part of an individual’s journey through life, but what is it that empowers us to persist through such hardship despite feelings we have reached the end of our capacities? Perseverance. Perseverance is the foundation that enables individuals to push through challenging situations. Both the novel, Walking Home by Eric Walters and the novel The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis are two works of literature that prove how perseverance is the key foundation for individuals to pass barriers set in their way. Muchoki and Parvana are characters who both persevere through family trauma that hits their household, they are able to preserve getting over the discriminatory mental barriers within their damaged countries and additionally are able to persevere through the physical agony faced upon them in their journey.

- Characters: The main character is developed by what type of book the author is writing. My main character Sugar Mae Cole was developed because of the way she acts toward different characters in the book. And by her personality and sugars personality is sweet kinda like her name and she is polite. She is always trying to brighten the other characters up especially her mom Reba. She has a different personality that any of the other characters and connects with them in a different way that is what makes her the main character. she is cautious and also believes in people and things like her mom. Her mom Reba is about to give up but Sugar still believes in her and she believes she and her Mom will get a home and things will

Throughout the course of the book, A Long Way Home, Saroo Brierley, the author, encounters a series of traumatic experiences that lead to bittersweet moments. Unlike a normal child’s infancy, Saroo was physically and mentally consuming. Through his experience, we are able to get a glimpse of the many struggles and hardships young children live in India daily. His petrifying experiences of living on the streets, Liluah, and Nava Jeevan finally lead to his safe haven of being taken by the Brierley’s.

When an individual experiences loss or death of something dear, it usually forces them on to leave the familiarity of their world in pursuit of something greater. In The Hero’s Walk by Anita Rau Badami, Sripathi Rao begins his Hero’s Journey when he is notified of the death of his daughter. During the call from Dr. Sunderraj, Sripathi is noticeably shocked by the events that have taken place overseas and is struggling to comprehend everything. As the news unfolds, he struggles with his internal conflicts of regret, guilt and even confusion. The regret of ignoring Maya and “argu[ing] with the voices that grew louder and louder in his head” that were criticizing his past actions work in unison to show the changes to his character brought by crossing

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

1. Magnus Andreas Brattesto was born April 14 1890 in Norway. Magus was the first-born son in his family of dozen children. He works on a fishing boat when he left school at ten. Magnus took a ship to America by the fist Norwegian immigrant ship called Restauration and nicknamed the Norwegian Mayflower. He like many immigrants turned to service in the army was in order to become a full citizen, when servicing somewhere no longer discriminated because they shredded blood for their country.

After searching for their families (and finding them) they both come to accept having a dual identity. Saroo was reminded of his fond memories at Khanda at a party. Saroo starts to remember his previous family, “I'm starting to remember a life I had forgotten.” Saroo travels to Khanda to meet up with his biological mother, his mother thanks Sue and John for taking care of Saroo all this time, and Saroo learns to appreciate Sue and John’s care for him, even calling her to say that even after meeting with his

Saroo’s friends suggest him to research things that will help him figure out where his biological family might be. Saroo then spends the next two years looking for his biological family, drops out of school, and becomes very distant with his family and Lucy. One day Saroo then invites his family to his house to see all the search that he has done looking for his biological family because he had finally found where he first lived. He then travels to Ganesh Talai, where he first lived and saw his mother and other family friends who were so happy to see him.

decline into isolation as he is lost. Saroo explains to his friends, “I’m not from Calcutta, I’m lost.”

In the short story “Hard Work, High Energy means a Ticket home,” author Kaisa McCrow introduces readers to Dymar Blanton an energetic Vendor outside of Voodoo Doughnut. Dymar is a homeless man who sells “Street Roots” a local paper to earn money for a ticket home. McCrow brings readers through Dymars past revealing that his life has been rough since childhood. Dymars began living on the streets in his teenage years where he was introduced to heroin by his boyfriend Stiches. After a near-death overdoes Dymar and Stiches work together to get clean and get engaged. Though soon after Stiches passes away in font of Dymar from an overdose. Despite what Dymar has been through he still works hard, showing that you can learn from your past and that

Being responsible for finding Saroo a home, Mrs. Sood became very important to Saroo. Saroj

In the book “The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War

I’m facing a very difficult decision. I fear that either way, we’re going to get slaughtered. The thing is, after successfully hiding a group of children for 3 years in a basement so they don’t get send to a concentration camp and suddenly, two new kids come, who both don’t have any idea that their parents are dead, and one of them, named Felix, attempts to ask Nazi soldiers about if he has seen Felix’s parents, you’re going to get a bit frightened. However, saying a bit frightened is an understatement. When Felix was going to ask a Nazi Soldier about his parents, I angrily, a bit too angrily, dragged him away from the cellar and into the basement. So here comes the difficult decision; I either tell Felix that his parents are dead, or I still

The movie “ The long walk Home ” provided the viewer with multiple major characters that seemed to be courageous, like Odessa who stood up for herself in the face of a white dominated society. Although, as courageous as Odessa was, she did fail to outmatch Miriam as the most courageous character in the movie because Miriam was able to not only defend herself, but defend others as well. Miriam also breaks stereotypical ideas of women in 1955, as well as remain unfearful throughout the movie.

When we talk about the “theme of survival” in literature, we should not forget the contribution of Margaret Atwood for the Canadian indentity. Margaret Atwood had written a literary criticism book named ‘Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature’. According to her theories, Margaret Atwood considers Canadian Literature as the expression of Canadian identity. According to this literature, Canadian identity has been defined by a fear of nature, by settler history and by unquestioned adherence to the community.