Strength In What Remains Essay

What are some of the issues you’ve had to face throughout your life? Your crush not replying to your SnapChat? Your phone charger not reaching your bed? I’d like to hope that people would not list some of these things as problems, but people do. There are many individuals in the world today who face hunger, disease, and war while others are only worrying about getting a stain on their shoes. In the book Strength in What Remains, I learned Deo’s tragic story. He went from being one of the top medical students in his class to feeling like he was useless when he came to New York City. He was forced to flee his beloved country and be on the run for six months. Throughout these six months, I truly believe God was looking out for him the entire …show more content…

I’d be absolutely exhausted, and I’m not sure I’d be strong enough to go through an event like that. Some of the third world problems that Deo had to go through was leaving his family behind, not getting proper medical care, and seeing things that no one else should see. Deo was forced to leave his friends and family behind and he had no idea whether they were alive or not. I could not be able to live with myself knowing that I left a baby behind in the woods to die. I do understand though that it was necessary for Deo to do this in order for him to …show more content…

It seems unfair to me that so much food is thrown away by families when there are people who are dying from starvation. We also take for granted that we have access to clean water every day when people drink their own urine in order to obtain some sort of fluid. Adults and children in many countries do not have the proper access to medications and healthcare. I do believe that most people take advantage of this, but there are some people who do not. They would rather not spend the money to go to see a doctor, even when they have the access to one, but people in other countries are dying due to not getting proper