Personal Experiences In Let's Get Lost By Adi Alsaid

“And maybe the only way to find what you’re looking for is to get lost along the way”(Alsaid, 296). In the novel “Let’s Get Lost” the author, Adi Alsaid wrote about five strangers who travel along with Leila on her 4,268-mile expedition helping her discover the essence of her journey. Alsaid presented his personal experiences in traveling alone, conquering hopelessness, and heartbreak through these five teenagers as they too searched for their purpose. jjjjjMany intellectuals have used and evaluated the works of other writers in order to present relations between literature and their personal experiences. In the article “Learning How to Get Lost: Goethe in Italy” the author, John Zilcosky, argues that “sometimes you have to get lost in order

To his surprise, his belief was quickly shut down after a brutal heartbreak on prom night! "How unfair is it that the person breaking your heart could still be resoundingly beautiful, that her face was still the one you loved the most”(Alsaid, 156). Similar to Elliot’s feelings after his negative outcome, Greg Moraw author of the article, “Dump Your Dream Girl – Confessions of a Hopeless Romantic”, argues that after betrayal there isn’t any hope. He shares his experience with feeling hopeless after a heartbreak and feeling lost/alone in the world. “I expected heaven-on-earth, I was searching for another great romance to be found with a mere mortal. But God is a better storyteller than Disney”(Moraw, 7) Previously Moraw was with a woman who was “the ideal by which all mortal women of flesh and blood were compared”(Moraw, 9). She had the “physique of a model” and the “smile of a cover girl” as he stated later on in the paragraph. After a cruel heartbreak, he was left feeling invulnerable to decay and wither. “I desired love- just not a blemished one found in a fallen world. I didn’t escape the inevitable: finding romance with tears, fights, and frustrations”(Moraw, 9). Moraw feels as if he is hopeless in finding a romance similar to his past “ideal” relationship and seeks guidance in finding himself. After much self-exploration and support, Eliot, through his

Foy was an intellectual child of nature with a father who took responsibility for her education until his death when she was only fourteen , Foy discovered that the world around her was sacred. She explains her passionate interest in feeling the “mystical experience”. “It means everything to me-(author’s emphasis)I mean as a thing separate from any practice, from love or the arts or work of any kind, the pure quiet sudden thing, like a fire-no, a light… it is the thing, the only thing, live by… the one way of finding out what things are”(Foy, 16). Foy goes on to express her experience of “the feeling of belonging to a place” in what she labeled as her “Sacred Wood”. She began her discovery of the origins in her spiritual inspirations then in her physical encounters. Foy believes, from experience, that you need to independently explore the world to really find out what things are. This is exactly what Hudson’s dad preached in his many lessons as a philosophy professor and a father. “Everyone needs at least one long road trip in their lives. I was probably about your age when I took mine.”(Alsaid,