From the beginning of her book, Michaela has kept sanguine ideas. Despite losing many people close to her like her parents and her teacher, Michaela has kept optimistic that she will do great things in her future. Likewise, Michaela never lost hope in her life in America when all of the other children except for her were going to be adopted, in fact she and her best friend, Mabinty stayed positive and ensured themselves that they would be together forever. Michaela’s hopefulness stayed present during one of the most difficult journeys in her life. This is while everyone in the orphanage must travel by foot to the neighboring country to Guinea. Taking Flight shows that one of Michaela’s strongest characteristics is optimism.
