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Clear memories of his mother brothers and sister goes through his head thousands of times for 25 years and then through searches for months he finally finds his real mother and family back in India, from where he was adopted from his Australian parents when he was five. This book “A long Way Home” is a memoir of Saroo Brierley, a man with a powerful story living the extremes. Saroo was 5 years old when he got separated from his older brother, one night while at a train station in rural India. Saroo's elder brother Guddu had left him sleeping on a seat at a Burhanpur train station, but didn’t return for a long time, Saroo (than known as Sheru) when woke up boarded a train in search of his brother, thinking that his brother might be scavenging
A prominent theme in A Long Way Gone is about the loss of innocence from the involvement in the war. A Long Way Gone is the memoir of a young boy, Ishmael Beah, wanders in Sierra Leone who struggles for survival. Hoping to survive, he ended up raiding villages from the rebels and killing everyone. One theme in A long Way Gone is that war give innocent people the lust for revenge, destroys childhood and war became part of their daily life.
1. Upon entering the bar for the first time, Frank displays many of the motivational theories listed in the book. Frank enters the bar in order to find a place for his homosexual preferences to be shown. Instinctually he prefers men to women and is driven into the dark alley and the bar by this biologically determined need. We learn from his wife’s reaction when the girls are having daiquiris that she and Frank are not having sex very often which according to the book is a basic need, so Frank according to the drive-reduction approach is driven to the bar to fulfil himself. This lack of sex that he is having at home also can lead to the application of the Arousal approach to motivation where Frank is trying to seek out sources of stimulation and activity because his home life doesn’t provide any. Finally, cognitive approach to motivation implies that Frank was motivated to go to the bar in search of fulfilling a goal. In this case the motivation was intrinsic he only was interested in enjoying himself, he knew that nothing tangible could come from this, for it must be kept a secret. All of Frank’s actions and motivations fit into the pyramid developed by Maslow. In order to attain a state of self-actualization Frank needed to develop all of the steps below. He tried through work, his wife, and a large house to make himself believe he was fulfilled but with out the basic physiological need at the bottom of the pyramid he never would be truly happy.
“Perhaps it was necessary that he cling to false hopes,since they kept him running away from harm.” The book Long Way Gone was written as a memoir by Ishmael Beah, the main character. This is his story about a civil war in Sierra Leone running away from a rebel group known as the Revolutionary United Front or (RUF) for short.
The Long Way Home, written by David Laskin, takes place throughout the early 1900’s in America. The book studies the journey of 12 ambitious immigrants trying to achieve the American Dream. The author, David Laskin, is an experienced author history, and literary biography. In fact, his books, Partisans, The Family, and The Children’s Blizzard, fall under his degrees in history and literature. In this monograph, The Long Way Home, he focuses on the risk of each struggle and opportunity an individual is faced with. David Laskin, presents these twelve immigrants in their journey, to obtain american citizenship through assimilation to American culture and, service in the great war.
For example, when Salva was on the plane to the United States, a waiter asked him what drink he wanted, Coca-Cola or orange juice. This reminded Salva of something which caused him to remember the flashback of when “Salva’s father had once brought a few bottles of Coca-Cola “ and when he drank it he “remembered his family passing the bottles from hand to hand...laughing with every bubble…” (Park 93) The memory of his family made him think about his future and if they would ever be out back in it. Salva always wanted to see his family throughout the journey and it was very hard for him to forget them. But he used the good memories of them to keep him motivated and change his mood or emotion about hard challenges such as the journey. As Salva thought more about his family, the more he wanted to see them. So when Salva found out about his father in the medical clinic in Sudan after Salva was transferred to Rochester, New York, he convinced his new family to bring him back to Sudan to find him. Knowing how positive and convincing Salva is, his new family made up the money and they traveled to Sudan where Salva found his father. When Salva found his father, he was the happiest he ever was and got to find out about the rest of his family. Although Salva heard some bad news, he still was very happy and glad to be reunited with his father. Therefore, Salva’s memories motivate him and allow him to do the impossible in his
Far and Away fades in with a slow fly-over shot of a crashing Atlantic Ocean on a partly sunny day, off the coast of what could not be mistaken for anywhere but Ireland. The wide-angled overhead continues, and the film title emerges as the camera lifts up and over the craggy cliffs and shoreline of rural Ireland; our sense of place reinforced by a backing of cheery Celtic flute music.
Starvation, thirst, war, and marauding bandits are only some of the things that the boys had to go through in order to reach freedom. In the article “The Lost Boys’’ three brothers travel more than 1,000 miles to reach freedom while going through unmentionable things. In another excerpt from the story “A Long Way Gone” it also talks about a group of boys that went through life changing events as well. These two group of boys have many similarities but they also have many differences between them. For example in both of the writings it talks about them going through starvation and the help they received from people along the way. They also had a difference between them which was where the group of boys had escaped to. Despite, one of the group
Homeward Bound intertwines two old-fashioned narratives of suburban 1950’s with rampant anticommunism; allowing it to be a persuasive historical argument. Attempting to establish why, unlike both their children and parent, postwar Americans citizens looked to marriage along parenthood involving great enthusiasm and promise. May discovers that cold war philosophy and the domestic restoration were dual sides of the same coin. Postwar American citizens felt the need to become liberated from past mishaps to be more secure in the following years. According to the author national containment was an product of the uncertainties and objectives released after the war. Within the household, potentially threating social entities of the new age could be tamed, where they could add to the security and fulfillment of life that men and women wanted to obtain. However, the satisfying emphases of 1950’s great minds and physiologists suggested personal and private resolutions to social issues. The modern family was the place in which that alteration was expected to occur. The household was the atmosphere in which families could feel comfortable with themselves. Giving that, domestic restraint and its calming corollary weakened the potential for political involvement and protected the alarming effects of anticommunism and the cold-war consent.
Since Ma’s kidnapping, seven years prior, she has survived in the shed of her capturer’s backyard. This novel contains literary elements that are not only crucial to the story, but give significance as well. The point-of-view brings a powerful perspective for the audience, while the setting and atmosphere not only affect the characters but evokes emotion and gives the reader a mental picture of their lives, and the impacting theme along-side conflict, both internal and external, are shown throughout the novel. The author chooses to write the novel through the eyes of the main character and narrator, Jack. Jack’s perception of the world is confined to an eleven foot square room.
David Laskin, The Long Way Home: An American Journey from Ellis Island to the Great War, New York, NY: HarperCollins Publishers, 2010, 348 pp., introduction, acknowledgements, sources, and index
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“The Big Trip Up Yonder” by Kurt Vonnegut begins in “New York City” at a three-roomed apartment with Gramps, who is 172 years old, watching a news report. When Lou makes a comment on the report, Gramps rewrites his will again and makes Willy his favorite, which entitles him getting the daybed instead of sleeping in the hall. When Lou is woken from his nap by someone walking over him into the bathroom, he finds his son, Morty, tampering with Gramps’ bottle of Anti-Gerasone. He tries to hide it but breaks the bottle making him look like the guilty one. Gramps later runs away, though they think he is dead, after changing his will to all of them splitting the property equally. This causes a fight to break out and the neighbors to call the cops. They get put into their own prison cells for a year which gives them more room, while Gramps watches it on TV in his apartment after moving his daybed in front of the TV. Gramps’ thoughts were, “Life was good. He could hardly wait to see what was going to happen next.”(8)
"Flying Home": a Living Story. Ralph Waldo Ellison is perhaps one of the most influential African-American writers of the twentieth century. Ellison is best known for writing about such topics as self-awareness, identity, and the racial repression of African-Americans in the United States. His masterpiece, Invisible Man, chronicles the story of a young man striving to find himself in a world where he is hardly noticed. This novel won him much respect in the eyes of the literary community. Earlier in his career, Ellison also wrote many influential short stories. "Flying Home", is one of Ellison’s stories that call the attention of all concerned with the basic essence of human freedom. In "Flying Home", Ellison creates a provocative statement about the Black situation in the south in the 1940’s that is rich with symbolism and personal experience. Born on March 1, 1914, in Oklahoma, Ellison was raised in an environment that promoted self-fulfillment. His father, who named his son after Ralph Waldo Emerson and hoped to raise him as a poet, died when Ellison was three. Ellison’s mother enlisted blacks into the Socialist Party and was also a domestic worker. In the early 1930s, Ellison won a scholarship to Alabama’s Tuskegee Institute, where he studied music until 1936(Busby 10). Later, to earn money for his education (after a mix-up regarding his scholarship), he traveled to New York, where he met Richard Wright and became involved in the Federal Writer’s Project. Encouraged to write a review for New Challenge, a publication edited by Wright, Ellison began composing essays and stories focusing on the strength of the human spirit and the necessity of racial pride. It was during this time that Ellison composed "Flying Home." "Flying Home", is the story of a young man who is one of a very small number of African-American pilots in World War II. The story begins as the young man, named Todd, crashes his trainer plane into a Southern crop field. Injured and unable to move, Todd is helped by one of the field workers, a black man named Jefferson. Todd, a man of the "white" world is overcome by feelings of disgust by the appearance and demeanor of Jefferson. Todd feels physically ill from having to deal with someone of such low class. At this early point in the story the reader wonders why Todd, a black man, would show such terrible feelings toward someone of his own race.
Rohinton Mistry’s “Such A Long Journey” is the story of turbulent life of Gustad Noble and his family, who lives in Khodadad Building north of Bombay. The story portrays the series of events such as his son Sohrab’s refusal to attend Indian Institution of Technology, hardships faced by his friends and family, political turmoil and chaos caused by the war between India and Pakistan. Gustad transforms from a stubborn, materialistic and awful person to an open-minded and more adaptive to circumstantial changes in his life. Ultimately, Gustad Noble journeys to a greater understanding of his role as a father, friend and citizen of India.
I was the king and master of my domain, and all that I saw was good. When I decided to write new chapters in my life in the world of College Academia, I entered a realm that was anything but familiar to me. Constant battles and trials raging day and night for each month of my freshman year became known as Hades’ Gauntlet.