Examples Of Overcoming Obstacles

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Throughout life everyone goes through obstacles. Some overcome them others live with them and of course some just don’t. But no matter the circumstance a obstacle will always stand in our way. So we have to keep on pushing it out or stay stuck in time. In this essay the obstacles will be shown and how people overpowered them. This essay will show how obstacles are never impossible defeat.

In “the orphan train” by kim hill a young boy faced an obstacle that many people feared. Lee was an orphan at eight years old.”Lee’s mother was dead, and his father was out of work”(6 hill). So the father was unable to care for his three kids and sent them to an orphanage. It was a horrible place and one of the kids stabbed him for a biscuit. But one day “ Lee and his brothers were being sent west to find new homes”(6 hill). The matron said it would be an opportunity but Lee “intended to return to his father”(6 hill). He went to many places but no one actually wanted him. Soon his brother’s were gone and Lee still could not find a home. Until he met the Wailings, even though he didn’t speak
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Odysseus returns home from trop to find 100 suitors occupying his home. They took his” house to plunder “ (957) and make his maids serve their beds. They show no respect for his home and he makes them pay in blood. He reconnects with his son and has a tearful reunion making up for the childhood he missed but that family member was the smallest obstacle when he returned home. The real problem was his wife you was cold to him even after he told her who he was. He think “her heart is iron”(946) and she won’t accept him due to the “frauds of men” who tried to play her. Odysseus was outraged at how bad things were going in his old like but he helped clear it up. He avenged his home by killing the suitors and assured his wife that he was truly

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