Elijah Huggins was born in Hampton, Virginia on November 25, 1997. He has five older siblings, four living and one deceased. He attended Newsome Park Elementary, Huntington Middle School, for ninth grade he went to Warwick High School, for tenth grade he attended Kecoughtan High School, and for eleventh and twelfth he went to Heritage High School. Elijah suffers from the sickle cell disease. Growing up with disease was a struggle, but he became a stronger person. His last couple of years in high school was really bad. Elijah grew up playing basketball with his older sisters. Once his last years of high school came he wasn’t able to play. The sickle cell disease caused him to be in and out of the hospital. He nearly didn’t graduate because of him being out so much. The sickle cell disease caused him to have pain crisis. Which means anytime he grows it feels all of the movement in his body especially in his back. When his ribs grew it caused so much pain that he wouldn’t want to breathe/take deep breaths because it hurt him so much. But even through all …show more content…
He relies on no one for anything. With the condition he has he doesn’t let it bring him down he lets it strengthen him. Elijah has always wanted to be an engineer. He wants to work on cars from start to finish. But with his condition it makes it hard from him to do that. But does he quit no he still pushes through. Elijah has a legacy to live behind. His sister graduated early and got a full ride to John Hopkins. His other sister got a full scholarship for basketball. He uses them to mentor him. He uses what he stands behind to actually push him forward to be a better person. Elijah is a hero. A person that you would want your kids to look up to. Elijah is my hero. That’s why I chose his story to tell. Not because he is family and because he is my best friend. But because he lives by what he preaches. He sets a great example for not only me but for anyone that is around
Although he faces the same physical displacement as Xavier, his emotional, cultural, and spiritual displacement is completely different. For example, Elijah’s first major journey, from the residential school to the traditional world does not play as much of a role in his foundation emotionally, as the residential school does on him. The sexual abuse he sustains as a child at the hands of the nun in the residential school (314), made him into the humorous, charming person he becomes, because he uses the joking around and English accent later on in his life, to protect, and distance himself from the abuse. Elijah learns more about the Cree culture from Xavier, who teaches him how to hunt, and survive in the bush (268). This is due to the fact that, Elijah spends more time with the Wemistikoshiw people than Xavier does, so his interest in the Cree culture is less than Xavier’s. Ultimately, Elijah is not really spiritually displaced, because the only time Elijah ever engaged in spiritual activities in TDR, was when Elijah and Xavier were about to travel to the war in Europe
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Chris McCandless, a man who went into the wilderness and died in a bus, in the cold wilderness of Alaska, after living 114 days in the Alaska cold. Though, before ending up in Alaska Chris was constantly on the move. Yet he somehow was able to meet people and befriend them. Such people were Wayne Westerberg, Jan Burres, her boyfriend Bob and finally Ronald Franz. In the end, of meeting all these people, Chris ended up leaving such a strong impression on each of them. Though why did Chris McCandless leave such a strong impression on them? Well, in the book “Into the Wild” by Jon Krakauer, one can read how Chris influenced people, encouraged them, how people thought he was a hard worker that lived out his own beliefs and there are many more reasons
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“To make it all worse, Elijah’s taken to talking in an English accent in the last days. This makes the other soldiers laugh, but I wonder why he really does it. It’s like he wants to become something he’s not....
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“By facing our fears and overcoming them will make us strong and capable enough to face any challenges in life.” - Anurag Prakash Ray
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