Narrative Essay: Farah's War

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Farah, trying to escape from her war-torn country, Buck, stolen and sent to survive in the harsh klondike, and Liesel, forced into a foster home after her brother's death in Nazi Germany. Despite their differences Farah, Buck, and Liesel all were determined to do one thing, survive and rise from tragedy. Farah’s goal was to escape from her war-torn country, and live a better life. Farah wanted a better life because she doesn't want to live in the war-torn country of afghanistan. She didn’t make it to the afghanistan border in time to into escape Pakistan. This is proven by the author writing, “I felt desperate to get through[...] if we got stuck here, what were we going to do?”(Ahmedi 1). Farah and her asthmatic mother had no …show more content…

Farah and her mother met a friendly family near their camp, and talked with them. A woman from their family told them that her husband was exploring a passageway to pakistan. Soon afterwards the husband, Ghulam Ali , had come back from the passageway with sprightly news: “it works” (Ahmedi 8). Ghulam Ali, sympathetically agreed to have them come, Farah pleasantly surprised went to sleep. Farah climbed the mountain two days later, and succeeded in completing her goal by living on to tell her tale. This can be supported by the author stating, “Thinking back, I’m puzzled, actually. How did I scale that mountain so easily?”(Ahmedi 12). Farah learnt that some people can be nice, like Ghulam Ali was, by allowing her to join his family on their adventure. THis can be further elaborated on by the author writing, “You never know when and where you will encounter a spot of human decency”(Ahmedi 13). Farah, having no way to escape from her country, was able to leave with the help of Ghulam Ali and learnt that you may never know when you will find kindness. Buck’s goal was to survive the harsh endeavors that came with the northern Klondike after he was sold by his supposedly trusted gardner. If Buck did not adapt to the cruel realm that is the northern Klondike, …show more content…

This is stated by the author writing, “It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift and terrible death.” (London 76).Buck eventually gained leadership of a wolfpack, showing that he has fully adapted to the wild Klondike and has succumb to his primordial beast. This shows his full adaptation to the Klondike because he starts as a outside and inside dog, he is still civil. Although, Buck learns to adapt quickly to the environment by learning from his fellow sled dogs. Finally, he comes to leadership over man and animal. This can be shown by the author writing, “Yeehats tell of a Ghost Dog that runs at the head of the pack.”(London 167). Buck rose from the tragedy of being betrayed by an entrusted person and he hastily adapted to the unforgiving Klondike. Liesel is a russian girl who is sent to a foster home, on her way there, tragedy strikes, and her brother dies. Without her brother, she is sent to Nazi Germany only with her mother to her foster home.Finally, after the long and everlasting trip to her foster home, her mother is taken away and never seen again. Liesel has no family to comfort her in her

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