Going To Where I M Coming From Summary

Maria and Naomi are two women who were both forced to exit their comfort zones and move to a completely new place. In "The Sound of Music", Maria has to leave the Abbey after she has been training as a postulant. The same thing happened to Naomi Shihab Nye in "Going to Where I'm Coming From" when Naomi's whole family moves to the Jewish district of Jerusalem, after living in America. One way that the two resemble each other is the way that they were forced to go to a completely different area and had to get used to living a completely different life. Maria was forced to leave her holy sisters at the abbey and had to move in with a military captain and his seven children. The seven children quickly adored Maria because she allowed them to be kids, not like their father. Naomi also had to move. She moved half way across earth to Jerusalem, the holy land. Along the way she had to change schools because she objected the idea of only being allowed to talk to the boys when she was one of the seven girls at her school. Another obstacle for her to tackle was not speaking the major languages of the nation like Arabic and Armenian. The two also share a strong faith in their religions. For Maria, she was training as a postulant to become a nun. Naomi was …show more content…
One difference is in "The Sound of Music", the story takes place in the late 1930's, just before World War Two, in Austria. The story "Going to Where I'm Coming From", takes place in the 1960's, in Jerusalem, Israel. One major difference between the two is their attitudes. Maria was always in a joyful, optimistic mood, while Naomi was always in a sad depressed mood when she moved to Jerusalem. For example, Naomi says that sometimes she just starts crying uncontrollably and she called them "crying jags". As a result, I could conclude that the two were different from their moods, time periods, and the places in which they