Most people take things for granted and don’t realize what they have, but sadly some don’t even have a home or barely enough money for food. Have you ever thought about what a poor person's life is like? In the story “Fly Away Home” by Eve Bunting, is about a poor family, Andrew and his dad, who has to live in the airport. You can tell that Andrew’s life is hard, but he stays positive. By the end of the story, he realizes his life connects to a bird in a story. I think that Andrew and his dad are always positive even if things don't go your way. Andrew’s life is hard, he's poor but still keeps a positive attitude. First of all, he lives in an airport, this shows that it must be hard for him. But he doesn't really mind, because in the story …show more content…
it states “My dad and I live in an airport. That’s because “we don’t have a home and the airport is better than the streets.” This means that he is grateful for what he has and he would rather have a home but he knows that he can’t, but he thinks about the positive side of it. Also, when it comes to sleeping they have to go sleep separately. Why you might ask? That’s because they can get caught quicker. This shows that they really need to stay there and they will do anything to not get caught. In addition to that his mom died. This reflects that it was easier but now it’s been hard to get back on there feet. Andrew is alway positive even when things don’t go how he would like it, his life's hard. However, he always stays positive.
For example he always helps even if it isn't much! In fact he stopped getting pie and saved up to help. This proves how much he wants to just help even if it isn't a big difference. Moreover, even if he lives in an airport he doesn't complain. This reflects that he knows it will only be harder is he complained and that would just add on the stress. Additionally, he feels that he wants to punch and push others, and even cry when they see families greeting, getting to go home. But he keeps everything inside. This illustrates that he doesn’t want to get caught, he just keeps quite. Always be positive even when things don’t go your way. Andrew and his dad's life kinda relates to a bird Andrew saw stuck on a window. It was stuck for a while then it flew free.They know that some day they will get an apartment or a home. Furthermore, they are both temporarily “stuck” at the airport. In the story it states, “It took a while but a door opened.” This proves that he know it will get better just like the birds life. Therefore, things are a mess they both know they both know they can get out of it and go to a better place. This reflects to just be patient. He mostly pays attention to the positive part, when the bird gets out of the window In “Fly Away Home” as you can see one of the things you can learn from Andrew is to always be positive even if things don’t go your way. I think that Andrew throughout the story shows this by being strong and not complaining even when he has a hard life and others have it
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It can be hard to live in high poverty and come out and be highly successful, but the author Wes proves it can be done. I also think this book shows how important it is to make good life choices and to listen more to your parents when growing up, so you don’t stray on the wrong path in life.
In Junot Diaz’s essay “The Money” he explains where his family stands economically. Stating that his father was regularly being fired from his forklifting jobs and his mother 's only job was to care for him and his four siblings. With the money brought home by his father, his mom would save some. Her reason was to raise enough to send to her parents back in the Dominican Republic. When his family went on a vacation, they came back to an unpleasant surprise; their house had been broke into. Eventually Diaz was able to get back their money and belongings. Diaz returned the money to his mother although she didn’t thank him for it, this disappointed him. Like Diaz I have also encountered a similar situation where I was disappointed. When I was in second grade, my life life took a completely different turn. My dad took an unexpected trip to Guatemala, on his return, the outcome was not what I expected.
... harsh and tragic. Similarly, Hodgins symbolizes a life full of hardships in Portuguese Creek with the death of Elizabeth, for she had been the only good thing that had come out of the war. The positives of the families and communities working together were ultimately overshadowed by the negativity of these same families and communities falling apart; only further showing readers that new beginnings are not a chance for a better life, but center stage for one that is worse.
In the essay “Suitcase Lady” by Christie McLaren, she proves that even people you least expect to be successful can be. Although the main character may not be successful in the business aspect, she is successful! She may be in an uncomfortable situation but as she states here: “I...always try to do the best to help people- the elderly, and kids, and my country, and my city of Toronto, Ontario” (5). Even though she is homeless, she still is relatively happy and she is respectful of other people, making her successful. However, she is unsuccessful when it comes to her family. The suitcase lady seemed to have struggled with money for quite sometime making it hard for her to start a family, “We never got along well because I didn’t bring him up. I was too poor. He never called me mama” (4). She seems quite upset about the fact that her own son and her do not get along. She clearly does love her child but she had a hard time making sure he had a high quality of life so she had to give him away. Therefore, she is unsuccessful with her family, making her lack the happiness she
In the novel Poor People, written by William T. Vollmann asks random individuals if they believe they are poor and why some people are poor and others rich. With the help of native guides and translators, and in some cases their family members, they describe what they feel. He depicts people residing in poverty with individual interviews from all over earth. Vollmann’s story narrates their own individual lives, the situations that surround them, and their personal responses to his questions. The responses to his questions range from religious beliefs that the individual who is poor is paying for their past sins from a previous life and to the rational answer that they cannot work. The way these individuals live their life while being in poverty
Courage and determination directed by passion make Junior a very admirable character. By sympathizing with Junior, the reader feels that Junior is inspiring. An early example of when the reader pitied Junior was when his dog Oscar was shot, who Junior considered to be “a better person than any human [he] had ever known” (Alexie, 9). Oscar had been sick, and since Junior’s family did not have enough money to care for him, Oscar was euthanized. Furthermore, Junior felt defeated, saying, “A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that” (Alexie, 14). Everyone, especially poor people, can be plagued with death and despair. From the very beginning of the story, where the reader learns that Junior had a brain disability to the dreadful way he experienced poverty, the reader sympathizes with him because they are truly sorry for him. The reader wants him to succeed, to grow, and, above all, to inspire the readers themselves. Junior becomes a hero to the reader for soaring above what his life entailed for him.
Junior sometimes had to go to bed hungry, but that wasn’t the worst thing about being in poverty. He made a diary entry stating, “Poverty= empty refrigerator+empty stomach. And sure sometimes my family misses a meal…and hey, in a weird way, being hungry makes food taste better (8).” This really puts the diary reader in his shoes about how many times he had to go without food and starve while trying to go to sleep, simply because his family couldn’t afford it. But to Junior, being hungry wasn’t necessarily that bad. What he felt was the worst thing about his poverty was that there was no money to save his beloved animal Oscar. Oscar became really ill and Junior wanted to take the animal to the doctor, but the family couldn’t afford it. When it came down to it, his father had to put the dog out of misery, and decided to shoot him. Visualizing someone having to shoot your best animal friend is heart wrenching. Most people have been in Juniors shoes where they have a sick animal, however they never imagine having to shoot it. This comparison of being hungry and losing an animal, shows Junior’s great strength at a young age about going through poverty, and sometimes even hope...
In An Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man and Their Eyes were Watching God, Janie and the Narrator live very different lives and experience very unfortunate things while their story is being told. Luckily, some of these things create positive outcomes that is hard to predict in the beginning of each of their stories. Nevertheless, both of them have a rather positive outlook on their situation no matter what circumstances they are involved in. No matter the difference in gender, what they pass as, or their financial situation, they both have some of the same struggles that make their stories interesting. Even though their lives may be harder from other people, it gives them the opportunity to become stronger people once they start to either overcome
Have you ever had a time when you had to never give up? Never giving up means keep trying until you get it. In the story, Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting, the theme is never giving up. The first reason to support the claim is the bird, who never gives up on trying to get out of the airport. The second reason to support the claim is the dad, who never gives up on finding a school that Andrew can go to. The last to support the claim is Andrew, who never gives up on earning money for him and his dad to buy an apartment. Those are three reasons to show how the theme of the story, Fly Away Home, is never giving up.
this idea. He is sympathetic, kind, and generous, but when his motives are questioned, he
...self to find a job and survive on his own, which came to be very hard for him to do. He probably could have stayed at home with his parents and be taken care of for a few more years had he not done so. I think the author put forth these themes clearly and effectively.
born in Raleigh, North Carolina to a Jacob Johnson and Mary McDonough. Andrew experienced the sting of poverty at an early age of 3, when his father died and his family was plunged into poverty. The youngest of three children Johnson had to teach himself how to read and write “ Unlike the children of he rich, he never had a day of schooling in his life: his mother was too poor to afford it”. From an early age Johnson his mother would work as a seamstress and she barely made any money along with his stepfather who was a local Taylor. As the years went on he started to feel the sting of prejudice from upper class white Americans. In Johnson’s teenage years in Raleigh the son of John Daveraux a ric...
This story shows how a family stuck together in hard times with faith and hard work that they would get through it. Sometimes people may have the same opportunities, but it is very likely all will have different outcomes. The risky nature of Walter may have put the family in a bind with his investment falling through, but what they did still have was each other. At least now, Walter especially, has the opportunity to learn from his
“Life can’t be cured, but it can be managed,” (Vizzini 447) was said by one of my favorite authors. He wrote a book called It's kind of a funny story, and the main character, Craig Gilner, is my modern day hero. Craig Gilner is a typical average fifteen-year-old boy. Well, if a typical fifteen-year-old boy goes to an Ivy League high school, feels depressed all the time, and is in a hospital being treated for depression, then yes Craig Gilner is the poster child for typical fifteen-year-old boys. Craig did not have a hard life, but he knew from a young age that something was not right. Craig liked to get under the family table and draw maps of New York, the city he lived in, for hours, and he could
Jackson is a Native American living on the streets in Seattle. He is alone and no matter how much effort he makes to form his own tribe-like community, he is always left with only himself. Jackson is feeling the pressure of society to fall into the role that many Natives are today. Society stereotypes Natives to be alcoholics that are very fickle with their money. Jackson is subconsciously allowing these social pressures to control his actions with his effort to obtain his grandmother's ceremonial blanket. The man that owns the pawn shop gives him money to put towards reaching his goal, but he quickly spends it on alcohol for him and his friends. This is an example of positive social pressure becoming negative because he feels the pressure to have a tribal community around him, and this causes him to ignore the goal and focus on others. While this may seem posi...