If you've ever felt lost or alone in the midst of a hard time, you would know how challenging it is to stay strong throughout it. But in “Fly away home,” by Eve Bunting and Making Bombs for Hitler, by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, both Andrew and his dad and Lida and her friends are put through challenging times but stay tough through it and show us that being strong through challenging times is important. “Fly Away Home” is a story based on a young boy named Andrew who is around six years old. Throughout most of his life Andrew has lived in airport terminals all over the world with his dad. For Andrew, living in this airport for what feels like forever is causing him to feel like giving up hope. But instead, Andrew keeps on going because of a brown …show more content…
bird that encouraged him to show us that staying tough through challenging times is important. To begin with, one demonstration of strength shown by Andrew is when he had to watch all the people leaving the airport.
Strength is shown here because Andrew must have known that these people weren't going home to no one. Instead, they were going home to a family. This would be hard because although there were most likely times when Andrew wanted to leave the airport, but he didn’t want to leave the only family he had, so he had no choice but to stay at the airport. Secondly, to show that having strength through tough times is important, Andrew stayed tough when he couldn’t talk with the people in the airport who he considered friends. This would be hard because imagine not having the people in life who cheer you up when times get tough, think about what it would be like if you had no laughter in your life. That’s what Andrew was missing out on, but because Andrew didn’t want to be taken away by the authorities like the other people that tried to live in the airport did, he decided that he would rather not be noticed than have a friendship. To add on, Andrew was tough when he only had one parent to look up to as a role model. This would be extremely hard for Andrew because if you’ve ever been to the airport, you would …show more content…
see people traveling as a family that includes both parents and even sometimes siblings. Watching these families walking around with each other, laughing together and reuniting with each other after trips must have made Andrew miss his lost family members even more, especially his mom. Another example of Andrew staying strong through hard times is when Andrew carried luggage for people around the airport. This would be tough because although Andrew was asking to get money for doing it that would go towards a good cause, he still got turned down sometimes. I’m sure we all know what being turned down feels like, but imagine what it would be like to have no money for a home. Also, to show that even when times get tough you need to stay strong, “Fly Away Home” gives an example of when Andrew would always hear people getting off of flights saying things like, “It's so good to be home.” This would be hard to stay strong through because Andrew can’t just block out what their saying, he has to listen. And as the story says, Andrew was tempted to go and ask those people why they had homes when Andrew and his father didn’t. It would be really tough because again, Andrew was at an airport twenty four seven and it would be hard to block out what people are talking about. Furthermore, strength is shown through difficult times when Andrew thought that he would be trapped in the airport for forever. This would take strength because just like most of us grew up in homes, we would always expect to have one, but because Andrew grew up in an airport for a majority of his life, he expects to live there forever. But Andrew doesn’t give up hope right then and there, instead he remembers a brown bird that he saw a while ago, and remembered that even when the bird was stuck in the door, he eventually got out. This gave Andrew hope to believe that eventually, even if it’s what feels like forever, Andrew will be able to move out of the airport. For these reasons, it is important to not allow challenging times stop you, instead they should encourage you to try harder. Making Bombs For Hitler is a book about a young girl named Lida.
One day Lida and her little sister are separated from each other. Because of this separation, Lida finds it tough to go on in life without her. Lida is put through many hard times while she is held at a work camp in Germany with the Nazis, and the only thing that keeps her going is what her mom used to say, “Beauty can be found anywhere.” During this time at the work camp, not everything is miserable, one positive thing that comes out of this whole process is that Lida makes new friends. But Lida shows us that even when life gets hard, it is important to stay strong. Lida shows us strength is needed in order to get through hard times when she gets separated from her family. This is tough because children are designed to have parents and grandparents and siblings to help them get through hard times. But all of that was taken away from Lida, so she had no one to look up to had and she had no one that was with her to help her keep on going. Although some of us don’t realize it, our family is more important than we think. Their the ones that help us through the hard times we face and their the ones who give us a shoulder to cry on when we need it. But even though Lida didn’t have that, she kept on being tough. Another example of when Lina stayed strong was when she was forced to make bombs for Hitler. This is something that would be extremely hard for all of us. While making the bombs Lida even said that she felt
bad making the bombs because she felt like really she was the one killing those people who were hit, not Hitler. I’m sure that it was very challenging for Lida to stay strong throughout this moment because she had to choose between continuing to make the bombs or to disobey the Nazi’s and possibly be shot. More importantly, Lida stayed even tougher while sabotaging the bombs. This shows strength because Lida was putting her life on the line for other people by putting fake powder into the bombs. Also, throughout the whole book, Lida was held at a work camp with the Nazi’s. Lida definitely had the strength for this because while stuck at this work camp, although Lida was treated unfairly, she always did her best, stayed tough, and tried to be usefull to the Nazi’s. In addition, Lida shows us that she can stay tough through hard times even when she is given different food because she came from a different country. Everyday Lida spent at this horrible work camp, she was fed turnip soup with water. Strength. That’s all Lida shows here. She shows us that when she is thought less of because she came from a different place than the others, that she won’t give up hope and will continue to fight through the difficult times in front of her. Lastly, a good illustration of strength is shown when Juli, Lida’s friend, is forced to work in the hospital with people who technically kill wounded people by taking their blood and giving it to injured soldiers to keep them alive during the war. Juli really had to stay strong through this because in the book, the way she acted to everyone included being kind and caring. So when Juli had to work with these cruel people, ashe couldn’t really be kind or caring to them or else she would have been shot. All of this demonstrates that it is important to stay strong even when times are tough.
The title of the short story, “First Flight” by W. D. Valgardson, may indicate that someone is attempting to escape an undesirable situation. However, this flight attempt may not go as planned and actually worsen the situation that this individual is facing.
In their lifetimes, many people experience the loss of loved ones and the departure of children. One of the most difficult things to do is to keep strong and good relations with friends and family members, before it is too late. The short story “David Comes Home”, by Ernest Buckler, follows Joseph, who worries his son David never had the same connection to the land as he does, though memories of past experiences, finding old belongings, and discovering the boy’s true feelings, resolve this conflict.
Through the study of life and literature, one can tell that racism continues to be truly pervasive. In Nikky Finney’s “Dancing with Strom”, the reader can witness the tension that exists between the races in society today. Although the poem shows how as times progress, mentalites seem to change as well, it is evident that many African Americans, such as Nikky Finney, still live in fear of the racism that hides and lurks in the corners.
Being smart is a trait that you need in life and in Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting, Andrew has a lot of that trait.One reason to support this claim is he does not get caught while he lives in the airport. Another reason is Andrew saves money.A final reason is they all work together in the airport to get money and not get caught.
A single tear was all she cried when she told her children about her mate, best friend and lover being killed. Now, that has to take a lot of strength.
If I were asked who the most precious people in my life are, I would undoubtedly answer: my family. They were the people whom I could lean on to matter what happens. Nonetheless, after overhearing my mother demanded a divorce, I could not love her as much as how I loved her once because she had crushed my belief on how perfect life was when I had a family. I felt as if she did not love me anymore. Poets like Philip Levine and Robert Hayden understand this feeling and depict it in their poems “What Work Is” and “Those Winter Sundays.” These poems convey how it feels like to not feel love from the family that should have loved us more than anything in the world. Yet, they also convey the reconciliation that these family members finally reach because the speakers can eventually see love, the fundamental component of every family in the world, which is always presence, indeed. Just like I finally comprehended the reason behind my mother’s decision was to protect me from living in poverty after my father lost his job.
“Intense love does not measure, it just gives. “ (Mother Teresa) This sentence perfectly describes the character Clarisa in the short story, “Clarisa” written by Isabel Allende because of her giving nature and devotion to helping other people. In this short story, Clarisa is the model of gentility and compassion by giving absolutely every thing she had, and even spends “…the last cent of her dowry and inheritance,” (434) and, “In her own poverty, she never turned her back on the poverty of others” (434). For these reasons, they people that know Clarisa hold her in high esteem, and continually portray her as saint like. Allende helps the reader understand the admiration others have for Clarisa through the use of imagery, similes, and diction.
She begins talking about her childhood and who raised her until she was three years old. The woman who raised her was Thrupkaew’s “auntie”, a distant relative of the family. The speaker remembers “the thick, straight hair, and how it would come around [her] like a curtain when she bent to pick [her] up” (Thrupkaew). She remembers her soft Thai accent, the way she would cling to her auntie even if she just needed to go to the bathroom. But she also remembers that her auntie would be “beaten and slapped by another member of my family. [She] remembers screaming hysterically and wanting it to stop, as [she] did every single time it happened, for things as minor as…being a little late” (Thrupkaew). She couldn’t bear to see her beloved family member in so much pain, so she fought with the only tool she had: her voice. Instead of ceasing, her auntie was just beaten behind closed doors. It’s so heart-breaking for experiencing this as a little girl, her innocence stolen at such a young age. For those who have close family, how would it make you feel if someone you loved was beaten right in front of you? By sharing her story, Thrupkaew uses emotion to convey her feelings about human
The daughter alludes to an idea that her mother was also judged harshly and made to feel ashamed. By the daughters ability to see through her mothers flaws and recognize that she was as wounded as the child was, there is sense of freedom for both when the daughter find her true self. Line such as “your nightmare of weakness,” and I learned from you to define myself through your denials,” present the idea that the mother was never able to defeat those that held her captive or she denied her chance to break free. The daughter moments of personal epiphany is a victory with the mother because it breaks a chain of self-loathing or hatred. There is pride and love for the women they truly were and is to be celebrated for mother and daughter.
The poet tries to appreciate the people, who are always present when their friends and family are in need. She says that when people are in need of help, and/or suffering, all one needs to do is stick by their side, to give them courage to overcome their troubles.
Through all the monstrosities Lola faced as a child, she never gave up. Not when she was orphaned. Not when her Babcia sent her away to live with strangers. Not when she discovered that her grandmother had died. Not even when she was alone on the streets and forced to beg for food. That is why her story needs to be remembered. She IS a survivor.
The “First Flight” is an excellent short story that made pathos for the reader to portray in the life of an everyman who has to deal with exclusion and people’s bad choices. Gregory is an 18 year old who just wants to be sociable but everyone just shuts him out and doesn’t pay attention to him. He stops in a train station to warm up and is ridiculed on a false accusation of stealing a pilot uniform. W.D Valgardson perfectly shows both of the main themes.
A Mexican woman, Marine, goes to a dance and sees a man she was dancing with killed in a hit and run. She has no idea who he was but yet it bothers her. “Only Marin can’t explain why it mattered, the hours and hours, for somebody she didn’t even know”. The strength and weakness factor is shown abstractly in this story. Sandra is showing the struggle of Mexican immigrants and how strong they have to be for what they go through. Marine though, feels weak and angry that he never could get back to his family or whoever he had left because she understood what he went through just as she went through a similar things. Yet her strength is shown when she knows she would have to move on though she couldn’t
The rifts between mothers and daughters continue to separate them, but as the daughters get older they become more tolerant of their mothers. They learn they do not know everything about their mothers, and the courage their mothers showed during their lives is astounding. As they get older they learn they do not know everything, and that their mothers can still teach them much about life. They grow closer to their mothers and learn to be proud of their heritage and their culture. They acquire the wisdom of understanding, and that is the finest feeling to have in the world.
If Cecilia goes to her grandmother’s, then she can build a close relationship with her. As said, Cecilia went to her grandmother’s house instead of going on her field trip. Cecilia’s grandmother remembers the time of the bonding of her and her mother as they left to the desert away from everything. Cecilia’s grandmother recalls the time of when she moved towards the desert for her mother’s illness; “I learned that winter how important family is” (2). When Cecilia’s grandma left everything to go with her ill mother to the desert, she built a strong relationship through their time together.