Examples Of Perseverance In The Breadwinner

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.

Have you ever read a book about life in a different country? Well, if you haven't I recommend you read The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis. It is about a girl in Afghanistan who has to dress up as a boy and earn money for the family. At the time Afghanistan was controlled by the Taliban. Her father got arrested because he had an education. After read the book I realized Parvana and I have simaitis and differences.

Jeannette and her siblings adapt to self- sufficiency from a young age, from being emotionally and physically neglected by their parents. The children don’t expect anything so they learn to work with what they have and what opportunities come their way. Jeannette saw the suffering of the family and took this leadership for the family guiding her sibling in the correct path.

There may be as many as 300,000 child soldiers, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s, in more than fifty conflicts around the world. Ishmael Beah used to be one of these child soldiers  , Ishmael Beah is a child who lived most of his childhood in the war   . He is one of the first to tell his story in his own words according to  http://www.alongwaygone.com/index.html and his memoir “A Long Way Gone”. The war had made ishmael have perseverance  in the long run , inference that he was brainwashed by the war and that ishmael was a very hopeful child always wishing for better days.

Although life presents you with many obstacles, if you continue to persevere, eventually you will achieve success. Angela’s Ashes, by Frank McCourt, is a good example of this. Frank is constantly limited by his poverty. We watch him stick with his goals and eventually accomplish them in the end. He also watches his mother continually try to stretch the family budget in order to get meager amounts of food. Death is also very prevalent in this book as Frank and his family have to adjust to the death of loved ones.

The perseverance and lessons that the Rocket Boys learned through the challenges that math and science presented them is the first reason why it is the key to their success. In order for the Rocket Boys to improve their rocket, so the school starts a class for six people only, and there are six Rocket Boys, but Dorothy decides to sign up and she kicks Sonny out of the class. Sonny accepts this in a conversation with his dad saying “My grades weren’t good enough to get into calculus class.” his dad replies “Let me get this straight. You fought for a class, got it, and now you can’t take it?”

Imagine: A young boy scavenges for food to provide for his impoverished family which was composed of his ill mother and starving siblings or a homeless, single mom desperatley seeking for shelter. These synopses from "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt and "The Street" by Ann Petry share a common theme: perseverance through hardships. In "Angela's Ashes," a memoir by Frank McCourt, he stells about the harships he endured through his childhood, such as, struggling to assist his family in the midst of poverty by stealing food to provide for them. Futhermore, in "The Street," a novel by Ann Petry, tells the story of young Lutie Johnson, a homeless single mom who is seeking shelter for herself and her children. In these two excerpts, the authors use the characters, settings, and events to develop the theme, which I've identified as perseverance through hardships.

In the historical fiction Fever 1793 by Laurie Hale’s Anderson, the main theme is perseverance.

One of these times is in page 36 “”Get out of my house!” she yelled. She threw herself at the soldiers with such force that they both fell to the ground.” The reason this quote shows Parvana’s perseverance is that she tackled the soldiers it to protect her father’s books. Another reason is even though she knew she was going to get hit she still tackled them just to protect her father’s book from being found and

The idea that perseverance is an essential human quality is displayed In the Novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King. King shows that perseverance is an essential human quality through a character named andy dufresne the main protagonists. Throughout the story Andy is faced with many difficult scenarios that the average man would never have to overcome but andy perseveres and triumphs over all that is thrown at him and is entitled as a shawshank legend in the end. King also shows how if one does not persevere they will fail this is shown through a character named Brooks Hatlen

While I was reading The Breadwinner I noticed that there was some horrible events that occurred and some characters changing. On page 31, the texts states, “Mother sprang at the soldiers, pounding them with her fists. She grabbed father's arms and tried to pull him out of their grasp. One of the soldiers raised her rifle and whacked her on the head.” This made Parvana not give up.

I found a theme that carried throughout the whole book, Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. This is the story about Katniss Everdeen and how she got drafted to fight twenty-three others in an arena. She must go through many struggles to end up winning, along with her new lover, Peeta. One simple theme, perseverance, runs throughout the whole book. The complex lesson the story suggests is that perseverance, emotional or physical, not only helps one, but helps others and causes them to persevere as well.

Parvana was not allowed to show her face in public as she was a girl living under Taliban rule in Afghanistan. After her father was taken to a prison, Parvana had to dress like a boy so that she could sell and buy things at the market. One day, in an effort to make some money, Parvana went with a tray of items to sell to the local stadium. Unfortunately, she witnessed terror when, “[a]ll of a sudden one of the soldiers took out a sword, raised it above his head and brought it down to the man’s arm.

Perseverance: How Success is Granted Dr. Samuel Jackson, English author, once said, “Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.” One example of a great work was offered in the play, The Miracle Worker. This play was written by William Gibson, and it is the story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, her teacher. Helen Keller developed an illness when she was very young, leaving her blind and deaf. However, with perseverance, she was able to learn the basics of the English language.

When Paravas father was taken away to jail and the police came they smashed her father's portrait. With her loving actions Parvana dove to cover the picture. “Although he did not