The Importance Of Hope In Real Life

Register to read the introduction… Wilma fought and went against her parents to follow her dreams to join the Australian army nursing Service and was aboard the Vyner Brooke when it was sunk by Japanese aircraft. Wilma fought for her life as she yelled ‘the ships coming down,’ the boat had tipped on top of her and her best friend, losing her friend at the scene. Wilma persisted to fight for her life as she almost lost it many times during the attack. Wilma eventually made it to the Island where she and many other women were held prisoner for 3 years. Wilma didn’t fight to become a nurse to just give up so soon, so she pushed through the 3 years of dreadful conditions in the camp and kept on nursing throughout her imprisonment. Wilma had hope to continue nursing and having her own family once they were set free, and that’s exactly what she achieved once she made it through. It’s amazing how persistence through hope and having no hope can be the difference between survival and perishing. Not only do we see people perish or survive through hope on movies and real life events but we also witness it within ourselves and our family and …show more content…
Throughout a life time everybody is able to witness people who strive and prosper in times of conflict as a result of grasping onto something which gave them hope, and everybody also see’s people who subsequently perish as a result of not being able to find their inner hope. Proving my point to persuade my audience I was able to find evidence from the movie Paradise road using Rosemary as an example of perishing from losing all hope in opposed to Wilma Young whom was a ‘brave women’ and got through conflict by having hope for her future. Lastly I shared a personal experience of when I was confronted with conflict confining in hope to pull through, also using somebody I know of as an example of perishing due to not being able to confine in