Forced to leave home, and being pushed out of your comfort zone into a new environment is tough on anyone. Especially when your father has left home and your mother was the one to tear you away from comfort to go after him. This is what happens to the main character, Kasienka, in the poetic verse novel, The Weight of Water. Our sense of self is continually developing through our different interactions and impacts on how we exist in the world. Kasienka is a 13 year old girl from a lower-middle class family, whose father had ran away from home. Some events that drastically impacted her identity are her father leaving, and her being bullied. All of the situations and events that she is put through lead to her becoming an overall stronger person.
The first event that drastically changed Kasienka and formed her into a stronger person was leaving her home, Poland. Her mother had taken her to live in London, to find her Tata (Father). This was a major event because it changed Kasienka’s life. She was moving from home, where she felt comfortable, to a place she knew nothing about. Moving was something that she did not necessarily want to do. She couldn’t speak the language, and she didn’t know anyone there. There was pressure put on her to ‘fit’ into the country and new …show more content…
In the story, Kasienka is torn away from home. She is forced, by her mother, to settle into a place that was foreign to her. The whole quest of her leaving home was to find her father, which she eventually did, however she struggled with the many obstacles along the way. It’s clear that her personality had changed during her time in England, expectantly Kasienka will continue to be as confident as she was at the end of the novel, as “What you think of yourself is much more important than what people think of you”
The first event that drastically changed Kasienka and formed her into a stronger person was leaving her home, Poland. Her mother had taken her to live in London, to find her Tata (Father). This was a major event because it changed Kasienka’s life. She was moving from home, where she felt comfortable, to a place she knew nothing about. Moving was something that she did not necessarily want to do. She couldn’t speak the language, and she didn’t know anyone there. There was pressure put on her to ‘fit’ into the country and new …show more content…
In the story, Kasienka is torn away from home. She is forced, by her mother, to settle into a place that was foreign to her. The whole quest of her leaving home was to find her father, which she eventually did, however she struggled with the many obstacles along the way. It’s clear that her personality had changed during her time in England, expectantly Kasienka will continue to be as confident as she was at the end of the novel, as “What you think of yourself is much more important than what people think of you”