Being alone in a world full of people is like one singular ant surrounded by a hive of bees. In his true story A Long Way Home, Saroo Brierley has a conflict that comes up between himself and the whole world. He not only gets lost in a place he has never been, he also creates a pathway to a whole new life in front of himself. Saroo and Guddu are traveling on the train to the town of “Berampur”, India where Guddu has work to be done. Saroo is tired of traveling on the train with Guddu, so when they end up at the train station in “Berampur”, Saroo decides to sleep on a bench in the train station alone and wait for his brother to come back. He woke up from his nap on the train after he fell asleep looking for his brother, and in sudden shock
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He was brought into a wealthy family that comforted him and his needs. No one where he lives looks like him, acts like him, or speks his language which is a hardship to overcome. The change for him was so hard because he does not know what other people are saying to him, he is not like the other people, and he is not their race. Without him knowing what it meant, Saroo one day came home and asked his mother “mom what is a black basket”(Brierley 112). His mom was mad because she knew that someone was actually calling him a “black bastard”. The struggle of Saroo moving to start a new life may not be noticed by himself, but his parents see what other people are saying to him, and how they are reacting to someone they have never seen before. Saroo thinks about his mother alot and he missed her so much. The message that Saroo learned throughout his life was to not wander off. If Saroo did not wander off he may have never been away from his mother, sister, and two brothers.
At first, Saroo thinks he is going on a journey with his older brother, until he ends up getting lost in places he has never been to before. Although Saroo has lived a better life full of opportunities in Australia, If he had never wandered off without his brother he would have had a better chance of being able to go home the night he got
He was brought into a wealthy family that comforted him and his needs. No one where he lives looks like him, acts like him, or speks his language which is a hardship to overcome. The change for him was so hard because he does not know what other people are saying to him, he is not like the other people, and he is not their race. Without him knowing what it meant, Saroo one day came home and asked his mother “mom what is a black basket”(Brierley 112). His mom was mad because she knew that someone was actually calling him a “black bastard”. The struggle of Saroo moving to start a new life may not be noticed by himself, but his parents see what other people are saying to him, and how they are reacting to someone they have never seen before. Saroo thinks about his mother alot and he missed her so much. The message that Saroo learned throughout his life was to not wander off. If Saroo did not wander off he may have never been away from his mother, sister, and two brothers.
At first, Saroo thinks he is going on a journey with his older brother, until he ends up getting lost in places he has never been to before. Although Saroo has lived a better life full of opportunities in Australia, If he had never wandered off without his brother he would have had a better chance of being able to go home the night he got