The Way Home

Being alone in a world full of people is like one singular ant surrounded by a hive of bees. In his true story A Long Way Home, Saroo Brierley has a conflict that comes up between himself and the whole world. He not only gets lost in a place he has never been, he also creates a pathway to a whole new life in front of himself. Saroo and Guddu are traveling on the train to the town of “Berampur”, India where Guddu has work to be done. Saroo is tired of traveling on the train with Guddu, so when…

Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah, not only give insight into the war violence committed in Africa, but plunge the reader into a personal recall of the dangerous day to day life. In the book, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families, Philip writes about the tragic experiences of Tutsis from several first hand interviews he had with survivors. A…

but still needs to get back to his starting position in order to keep his land. The factor he did not predict was how little energy he would have on the return home trip, compared to when he left. Tolstoy writes that Pahom was to greedy in the first half of his day, which would act negatively on Pahom and make his work harder on the way home than he actually had the energy for. Pahom even tries to self motivate, saying to himself, "An hour to suffer, a life-time to live", except the issue in…

“The Long Way Home” by David Laskin Immigration to America was a common scenario in the early twentieth century. People moved to the United States from different parts of the world, a majority of them belonged to the non-English speaking world except for the Irish. Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe, Southeast Asia and China arrived in the United States in large numbers for many reasons, such as lack of opportunity, social disorganization, lack of religious freedom, rampant civil war…

Breaks as Part of the Story Gail Caldwell’s Let’s Take the Long Way Home is a moving portrait of Caroline Knapp and of the grieving process in part because of the author’s use of breaks. The scene and section breaks act almost as interchapters, intervening with elaborating information between scenes, while chapter breaks contain the ethereal emotional states that cannot be recollected into scenes. Let’s Take the Long Way Home follows a generally linear plotline, from Gail’s and Caroline’s…

again. Well you do know how that’s gonna go that friend may not pay you back once again. The term “People like us” is usually used when speaking, or thinking negative of another race or culture. Unfortunately me being Black I’ve heard this term way too much. I have said in the past and maybe just the other day to my son look at those officers pulling over than man. It’s one black man and two police…

diseases and abuse in their society. To us, a family is a matter of course. However, to these street children, family is a strange word. They have been homeless since they were born and have never had the feeling of being at home, of knowing a family. The book “A Long Way Home”, by Saroo Brierley, tells the story about a street child, Saroo, who was born in India. Saroo’s parents come from different religious backgrounds. His mother, Kamla, is a Hindi, while Saroo’s father is a…

for violence to issues within the household. However, the main threats come when decides take initiative and leave his/her home for their own purposes. Many Latin Americans who decide to leave their home leave knowing they could die in the desert, be deported, killed by on-going violence throughout Mexico; however, many decide to try their luck because their life back home is not that good either, from family issues, crime,money/jobs, and environmental safetiness, being born in Latin America…

The sun was fading west as he headed home. Oliver’s breathing remained steady as he broke into a sprint. As he finished the final kilometre of his run, he felt the wind rushing against him, as if challenging him to go faster. His body became a machine, with each step deliberately calibrated to maximize his velocity. Reaching his destination, a new song began playing on his phone: “Ride” by Twenty One Pilots. The words resounded in his mind: “We have a list of people that we would take, a bullet…

Santa on his way home As the 23th of december 2015 became 24th, santa’s old clock rang as he rose from his warm bed prepared for days of hard work. Together with his reindeers he flew around the world handing out every present in his big brown christmas sack. Eventually there was only one present left and it was addressed to the famous scientist Berry who was studying penguins on the south pole. Santa had never been that far south before but decided that it wasn't going to stop him. When he…