Farah Ahmedi's Short Story 'The Other Side Of The Sky'

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Missions for Love When we take a mission it is the desire to help someone. We take a mission because we love someone or something and are fighting to make it better for them and us. Farah Ahmedi decided to travel to Pakistan with her mom to have a safe life away from her war-torn home. Aengus spent his life looking for the glimmering girl her loved at first sight. Ghulam Ali found a way across the border and took his family through the dangerous path. However, all three took these missions because they loved their family, friends, and only one. Farah Ahmedi, after losing her leg knew that her and her mother needed to move somewhere else. Her mother had asthma and needed a cleaner environment rather than her dusty war-torn home. She knew that Afghanistan was too dangerous …show more content…

He was traveling the mountain side willing to be in danger to find a way for his family to get across. The story, “The Other Side of the Sky”, says, “we don’t want to run into any smugglers,” (Ahmedi 8). The path was dangerous and over a mountain. When Ghulam Ali came back to his family and heard Farah’s desperate story and situation, he immediately took them into his care. The short story says, “Yes, of course you can come with us, [...] You and your mother are in my care now.” (Ahmedi 9). He saw these people, and out of love took them with him and his beloved family. He was the light that was meant to bring Farah to be safe. But, not only did he take this new family from love he took his own family. His wife said, “that her husband, Ghulam Ali, had gone to look for another way across the border.” (Ahmedi 7). He was looking for a better life for his family. Through this path he would take his family to safety to have a better life and he did this through love, through the love and hope that life would be better in Pakistan. But, even though the first two mission had happy endings this last one doesn’t quite turn out how you would

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