Themes In A Long Way Home By Saroo Brierley

The author uses tone and images throughout to compare and contrast the concepts of “black wealth” and a “hard life”. The author combines the use of images with blunt word combinations to make her point; for example, “you always remember things like living in Woodlawn with no inside toilet”. This image evokes the warmth of remembering a special community with the negative, have to use outdoor facilities. Another example of this combination of tone and imagery is “how good the water felt when you got your bath from one of those big tubs that folk in Chicago barbecue in”. Again the author’s positive memory is of feeling fresh after her bath combined with a negative, the fact that it was a barbecue drum.

Antwone Fisher was an individual that endured so many things. He faced a lot of challenges that may have seemed impossible to recover from. This story was an example of the many things that some children may experience. Antwone was not raised in an upper crust home. He did not grow up in a home in which his mother and father was present. Instead of having positive role models, he had to live with individuals that were abusive to him. When observing Antwone’s personality, one may refer to two different theorists such as Bandura and Rogers.

"If I grow up, I'd like to be a bus driver." If -- not when. Sentiments like this echo hauntingly through the pages of Alex Kotlowitz's account of his two-year documentation of the lives of two brothers, Lafeyette and Pharoah Rivers. The boys are afforded little happiness and too much grief, trying to survive from day to day in their appartment at the crime-ridden Henry Horner Homes housing project on the outskirts of Chicago. When Kotlowitz approached the boys' mother, LaJoe, about writing the book about her children, she agreed with him, but felt the need to set him straight. "But you know, there are no chlidren here. They've seen too much to be children," LaJoe told Kotlowitz.

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

In “Townie: A Memoir” by Andre Dubus III, the unfortunate trials and tribulations of a violent and poverty-stricken childhood is described. With the strain of divorced parents and frequent moves, Dubus vividly describes his experiences of exposure to various environments of drugs, bullies, and sex. Like his father, Dubus embraces a passion for creative writing as a form of therapy. The gravity of Dubus’s childhood was vital to his growth because of its often fight-afflicted and fatherless times.

Since the beginning of A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, the protagonist of the novel Ishmael endeavors to flee from the hardships enkindled by the RUF rebel organization that has amalgamated the country of Sierra Leone, officially making it a war zone. Furthermore, for over 2 years, Ishmael has been on the run as “lone wolf”, moving from one village to the other, escaping near death situations. Self-determination was one of the reasons for such bravery, but it was also due to specific objects that helped Ishmael pursue freedom. The central themes of the novel A Long Way Gone are the theme of freedom and oppression. Seemingly, the central themes are distinguished by objects that Ishmael symbolizes, these include the moon, the rap cassette, and

Jerral Hancock received the keys to his new house on May 29, 2015, a newsworthy event because without the assistance of Lancaster students the severely disabled veteran and his two kids might never have gotten out of their overcrowded trailer.

“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.” These are the powerful words from the story If I Stay written by Gayle Forman. Gayle Forman was born on June 5, 1970. She is an American young adult fiction author. She was best known for her novel If I Stay which topped the New York Times.

The book The Long Way Home; An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War by David Laskin, took place in the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. Showing varies groups of immigrants from all around the world, like Southern and Eastern Europe, China, Southeast Asia and many others. Laskin explains that many of these immigrants fled from their homelands to the United States of America for many reasons, like the Civil War, religion, and lack of opportunities; as in jobs, land, money and more. All these immigrants brought to the United States varies beliefs and languages. David Laskin begins telling us stories about twelve different immigrants that came to the United States from different lands, such as Finland, Germany, Southern Italy, Jewish Settlement and many more lands.

A person’s capability is often limitless when his or her heart is drawn towards a certain matter. In her memoir, There is No Me Without You, novelist and journalist, Melissa Fay Greene gives a candid insight on one woman’s odyssey to rescue Africa’s children. Greene successfully creates a sympathetic tone in order to stress the urgencies of the conditions for children in Africa living with AIDs and the difficult lives that they face through the usage of rhetorical questions and pathos. Similarly, irony is used to emphasize the ingratitude of the children despite Haregewoin’s best efforts take care of them. Throughout her memoir, Greene educates readers on a life beyond their narrow perspectives and walk them through a world of hurt and pain

Cormac McCarthy’s The Road tells the journey of a man and his son to seek refuge in the South. Just as the man and the boy escape their post-apocalyptic dystopia, my parents escaped their home country of Vietnam from Communist forces. My parents can be compared to the boy in the story because they began their journey at a young age. As young children they had to fully understand the severity of their situation and mature early in order to comprehend what was occurring around them. My mother, father, and the boy all encountered obstacles and had to overcome blank situations. Although my mother and father have two different stories, their stories can be juxtaposed to that of the boy’s and many similarities can be found.

‘A long way home’ written in 2013 by Saroo Brierley about his life and the events that happened. A long way home shows how Saroo Brierley connects with a variety of people, places and communities because of how his life has unfolded. Saroo's connections with people such as his Australia Family the Brierleys shows how he belongs and connects with others. His connection with his home in Ganesh Talai india show that before he got lost he felt a strong belonging to his family.

In the book Almost Home, the theme is that when things go terribly, if you keep a just little hope and push through it, there will always be a solution. Almost Home represents this theme because at the beginning, Sugar's father, Mr. Leeland, loses all their money in a gamble. Then, a bank person came and took their house away. because they could not pay their bills. This makes Sugar and Reba, Sugar's mother, left homeless.

Characters under stress hold our attention because they fight to survive against the odds. In the novel ‘The Road’ by Cormac McCarthy we are introduced to a number of characters who are under pressure and have to do what they can to survive. These characters and events hold our attention as they make the story interesting and unexpected. Characters under stress do things they would not normally do. This is what makes the reader so attached to the book and want to read on. In this essay I am going to talk about: The Man, The Boy, The Roadrat and The Thief. I will also discuss why they were under pressure and why they made the story so interesting. I'm going to link this to today's world. I want to discuss refugees and why they are under stress

A soldier, historian and novelist, Canadian Leo Heaps is a uniquely qualified individual. The author of eight books, Heaps is a veteran of the Second World War who also assisted Hungarian refugees in the aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. While organising a relief team to assist the Vietnamese “boat people” in 1979, he met a small boy named Nam. Heaps’s novel, A Boy Called Nam, tells the incredible journey of this unusual little boy from his home in Vietnam to his new home in Canada.