Going To Exile Liam O Flaherty Analysis

My next question was what they expected to find in America. Mary was very clear that they wanted to find success and happiness. Her great grandmother wanted to better her life for her children and give them more opportunities. This was, and still is, the image that America tends to emit. America stood for a better future and off of that, a future filled with hope. When they got to America Mary’s family came through Coney Island and settled in The Bronx. They

However, when the mother is almost done with her education and only has one more assignment left, tension begins. The mother has to go to Costa Rica so she can graduate, but she has to go for almost the entire summer. That means that her daughter will have to stay with her grandmother, who she hasn’t seen in forever. “Mom wouldn’t leave me. We’d go together.Right?”(12) The mom doesn’t want to leave the daughter, but she can’t take her either. The mother also doesn’t even try to understand why her daughter wants to go with her. The daughter had lost her father and probably has a fear of losing her mother as well. “I burrowed my head head under the pillow with the baseball. A tiny piece of me felt guilty for stealing it, but it belonged to my dad and that made it special. That made it a part of me.” (46) The daughter seemed to be more connected with her father then her mother. Her father could’ve understood her more or at least tried. The mother doesn’t even attempt and makes the final decision with caring about her child’s opinion. The different points of view of the mother and the daughter over the topic of going somewhere creates tension between the two

Don't be afraid to take an unfamiliar path, sometimes they’re the ones that take you to the best places. (Jaydee/ google images) Becoming unfamiliar with a place that ones have considered home can be difficult because home is a place blessed, where someone and their family can be secure, and share sadness and happiness. Where individuals can help each other as a family. When individuals such those in “The Return” or “A Marker on the Side of a Boat” get forced out of their homes and the place that ones was familiar to them but later becomes unfamiliar due to the damage and changes. “The Return” by Elie Wiesel and “A Marker on the Side of a Boat” by Bao Ninhin both have an internal conflict that the protagonist experiences as they encounter hopes,

The area that she was living it was to expensive for them to afford the house. She could not afford with only one jobs. That is why she was looking for a second job. It was difficult to find a stable job. The jobs she got didn’t pay enough money.

The first reason Mary should not go to Oregon is that it would be a six-month trip. It would be a race for her family to get to Oregon before winter. Much could happen over the course of the trip, such as they could not have enough food to make it, they could get sick and they could even die while on the trail. This is a very long journey and she

“At night I’d go home smelling of pig. It wouldn’t go away. Even after a hot bath, scrubbing hard, the stink was always there – like old bacon, or sausage, a greasy pig-stink that soaked deep into my skin and hair. Among other things, I remember, it was tough getting dates that summer. I felt isolated; I spent a lot of time alone.” (O’Brien, 41).

Her father left for the U.S.A. when she was two-years-old. She was so young and in love with her father, a constant fear was him never coming back and

As the days go by, Mary Anne is becoming more distant from Mark Fossie and more attached to the war. This is obvious when Mark Fossie asks her if she wants to leave Vietnam and she tells him that she does not want to leave, since everything she needs is in Vietnam. Later on, Mary Anne starts joining the Greenies, which is a group of elite army soldiers, who fight in the war. Mary Anne disappears and Mark Fossie ends up finding her with the Greenies, completely changed by the war and a different person. “Quietly then, she stepped out of the shadows… For a long while the girl gazed down at Fossie, almost blankley, and in the candlelight her face had the composure of someone perfectly at peace…’You 're in a place’, Mary Anne said softly, ‘where you don 't belong.’... Rat listened for a long time, then shook his head. ‘Man, you must be deaf. Shes already gone.’” (O’Brien, 105-107) As portrayed in the novel, Mary Anne is clearly too attached to the war and cannot leave Vietnam. She leaves Fossie for the war and joins the Greenies, since she cannot move on, for she is held back, due to the war. In a way, Mary Anne is a representation of war itself. She is an example of what war does to a soldier and how it can greatly impact their life, not letting them move on.

The narrator’s mother can’t handle getting close to anyone in her life, so she counteracts this by hiding her true self in a box and moving from place to place. She battles a great depression since she lost her only solid human relationship with the death of her husband. She doesn’t allow anyone to know about or help her with her depression. She boxes her emotions up. “Boxes and have been sitting around inside her house for months” (583); the author uses this to represent the mother’s life and psychological issues; she holds all of her real thoughts and emotions inward. Rather than dealing with the issue of her husband’s death, the mother uses moving as a way to escape. She moves to a new area in search of happiness, blaming her problems on anyone except herself. The mother states “Other women my age are happy. Why can’t I be like other women?” (587), this reinforces the idea that she is searching for contentment and a way to overcome her

There is a lot of important factors to take in consideration, the impact it will have on their kid. It also isn’t easy to let a person you love go. So in my opinion Sundberg writes all her problems she had in her relationships to relate to her audience who are in the same situations, that she understands them because it is a lot to sacrifice but at the end it is a correct decision that would make their life

Do you think looking forward and trying to change a bad situation into a good one for having a better life is a wrong decision? The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time Indian is a novel written by Sherman Alexie. The novel is about Arnold Spirit; everyone calls him Junior. He is a teenage boy with a tough life who lives with his family in poverty on a Spokane Indian reservation in Wellpinit, Washington. He hates living in poverty and wants something better for himself. “I feel like I might grow up to be somebody important. An artist”(6) he claims. His living conditions are horrible; he studies in a school with a lack of resources. He considered the different aspects of moving to Reardan, he struggled about leaving

Mary Rowlandson may be writing as if there is a distance between her and her family because it would be a way to cope with the pain of

Leading up to the First World War (WWI) was a series of crises -- Serbian unification efforts, the Ten-Point Ultimatum from Austria to Serbia, the Kruger Telegram, the Dreadnought Race, the Moroccan Crises of 1905 and of 1911, the Balkan Wars, and the Bosnian Crisis -- that generated significant conflict and division among the countries of Europe, all of which seemed to lay the foundation for the start of WWI. With concern for its own power and security in a rapidly changing Europe, Germany set out to undermine the power of as well as the alliances between other European countries. In his book The Sleepwalkers: How Europe went to War in 1914, Christopher Clark points out that, while ‘not one of the great powers has escaped the

Life is full of challenges. In the stories, “Breaking Through Uncertainty-Welcoming Adversity” and “Neighbours,” written by Jim McCormick and Lien Chao, the main characters illustrate benefits derived from taking risks. Even though both people in these texts undergo personal challenges, in “Neighbours” the character, Sally, receives greater benefits from taking risks than McCormick in “Breaking Through Uncertainty-Welcoming Adversity”.

As Mary’s story unravels, she continues to suffer long hours of work, starvation, and separation from her family. She reads her holy bible and is constantly reminding herself that God is with her and will see her through these trials. Her spirits are lifted her master agrees to sell Mary to her husband, and her mistress begins the journey with her, but before long the mistress decides not to go any further and they turn back. Not long after, she starts to loose hope that she will ever be reunited with her family. She becomes discouraged, and her spirit