Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Fly Away Home

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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…

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…

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

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