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Write A Narrative Essay On A Hero's Journey

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Ahh… (Reads the headlines on the TV, "Refugees Attacked by pirates on the way to Australia, boat sunk") Refugees attacked by pirates and left to die on a sinking boat! Those little rats, those little lumps of camel poop. Always stealing from others. Little bastards. Those poor people- they’d already paid a truckload of money to get to Australia- then they’re betrayed and attacked, beaten and left for dead. It's because of those idiots suffering people from war-torn countries can't live in houses with their families and lead normal lives. Listen to my story, child, and you’ll soon realise that you're so lucky to be living in a house with food, water, safety and a stable education. After leaving Indonesia, we were six days into the trip. The …show more content…

Hopelessness drowned me. Jamal’s face was etched with despair too. I wondered why we’d even decided to journey to Australia. Then I remembered. “People laugh all the time in Australia-…even in their sleep”. Stupid Omar, he couldn’t even manage to thread bait on the hook. Even I knew how to do that. Rashida had rattled on about it for thirty minutes. That day was my birthday. It was horrible. Jamal didn’t remember and I was forlorn, fragile and forgotten! Worry surged through me. What if the boat sank? What if we never found our parents? Suddenly, Jamal interrupted my thoughts blabbering about the Australian Government visiting our house on birthdays with soft drinks and cake. When Rashida told me Australia Supermarkets sold 50 different kinds of Ice-cream, the blanket of gloom lifted. I don’t know what I’d do without her. Then a boat slowly drifted towards us. Like a shaken soda can, happiness and joy fizzed inside me. I imagined it was mum and dad's boat. But then I saw the automatic weapons! Pirates! Fear submerged my happiness and joy. My heart thrummed like a caged bird’s wings. The man who had earlier demanded more money jumped onto the other boat. We were being abandoned. In horror, I watched as they dragged a

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