The Way Home

their backpacks and scurried out the door. Everyone wanted to get out of this dull school as fast as they possibly could. I took my time. The white classrooms and halls of school existed as my only relief place; it was the only place I could relax. At home, real stress weighed down on me. “You’re really in a hurry.” I glanced up from my assignment book to see my Algebra teacher, Mrs. Read, smiling at me. “I don’t have anywhere better to be.” I replied. I gathered my stuff up and walked toward…

began to accept immigration, it also found itself amid conflict, cultural discrimination and war. Many of these newly accepted immigrants came to achieve the “American Dream”, yet found themselves becoming a part of the war effort. In the Long Way Home: An American journey From Ellis Island to the Great War, author David Laskin delivers the heroic…

written by the author’s life as it is related towards a person, a historical event, or a thing. In the book, “A Long Way Home,” by Saroo Brierley, he talks about one event throughout the memoir; the memory of his home. This incredible and courageous story of Brierley is foretold in many depicted memories, and for a child to endure them were quite gruesome. His journey to his new and old home has become publicly famous and people around the world are interested in hearing his story. This book has…

Introduction “A Dog’s Way Home” is a fictional story by Bobbie Pyron about a young girl named Abby, who loses dog Tam, in a car accident in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia. Abby and Tam were inseparable and did everything together. Now that Tam is lost Abby is determined and is going to do whatever it takes to find him. But along the way, Abby encounters situations that slow her down from finding him. But luckily for Abby, her family and friends help her along the way. The main characters…

In the short stories, “The Long Way Home” and “How to date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, Whitegirl, or a Halfie”, races and homosexuality tremendously affect society in different ways. Both of these stories are very different but have similar relations to dating, one of races, and the second of gender and physical attributes of a homosexual. We live in a world where we get judged by every move we make, stereotypes seem acceptable, and where we will always be compared to the next person. In this…

join the United States military and participate in the intense war. David Laskin, a notable American journalist and award-winning author from Harvard University analyzes in his novel, The Long Way Home: An American journey from Ellis Island to the Great War, the anecdote of twelve men who left their European homes and embarked a fascinating journey to begin a new life in the land of opportunity. Laskin distinctly portrays the origin of the immigrant generation and their…

In this monograph “The Long Way Home,” written by David Laskin, he covers over the experience of immigration from 1880 to World War I and delivers the immigrants point of view on US History for that period. Laskin is a graduate from Harvard University with a degree in history and literature who later went onto Oxford College and received an MA in English in 1977. In this narrative, David Laskin writes about “how twelve immigrant soldiers who became Americans through fighting in the World War I”…

In the movie, A Long Way Home, Odessa Cotter is a strong willed, black house maid who works for the Thompson family. Miriam Thompson, the mother, is a kind, classy, well-to-do white woman whose main care in the world is making sure she always has a maid, no matter what she has to do. Norman Thompson, the father, is a good man whose judgment becomes burdened by his little brother, Tunker Thompson, who is a snarky, sleazy, racist pig. When racial tension rises, Miriam puts her personal…

“A Long Way Home,” is a tale of a young Indian boy who gets lost one day from home and eventually finds his way back home; from India to Australia and back. This book is labeled as “bittersweet” with either an event beginning on a positive or negative context and ending with either outcome. Foreshadowing is also constantly seen throughout this book, vividly expressing the next term of events. Although, Brierley had a great recollection of his memory in order for him to find his way back home; if…

concentration camps? The Long Way Home is a documentary directed by Mark Jonathan Harris that combines footage, images, and interviews of the survivors ' to shed light on one of the most overlooked periods in Jewish history. Harris uses the material to describe the hardships faced by the people supposedly liberated from Nazi concentration camps and how they survived the horrific conditions. When combined, the documentary tells a heartbreaking story. The Long Way Home is an effective documentary…