A Long Walk To Water Summary

As Johnny goes through this difficult stage in life he decides to run away not thinking about where he’s going to stay or how he’s going to get food. He decides to join a gang of orphans with his best friend Billy in order to survive. This novel is still widely read today because it provides an inhuman image of brutal conditions African Americans faced in Harlem of 1940’s. In the Rite of Passage, the main character Johnny is hit with some really bad news that his family that he’s been living with throughout his entire life is not really his own. In the text, Johnny comes home after getting a good report from school and his foster mother and sister tell him that he is not going to be living with them anymore.

Salva began to forget about the journey and started to set small goals going step by step through the desert. With those small goals, he was able to persist through that long journey to Ethiopia. In TBW, Jiya loses his whole family to a disastrous tsunami. In the book Jiya perseveres by focusing on other people and not drowning in the sadness of the death. Jiya used the help of Kino’s family to Both Characters face hardships and hurdles while persevering through their different

It’s a case of 2007 happened in village. A long way gone is the story of Ishmael beah . who becomes an unwilling boy soldier during a civil war in sierra leone . when he was 12 yrs old beah’s village Is attacked while he is away performing in a rape group with friends . among the confussion , violence , and uncertainity of the war , Ishmael his brother and his friend strol from village to village in search of food and shelter.

The Alchemist is a very well written and intriguing book by Paulo Coelho. It is a story about a young shepherd known as Santiago who abandons his live in Spain and embarks on a journey to Egypt, during his journey for treasure hunt he faces many obstacles. Making several different stops he realizes truth about himself, the world, and the kingdom of god which are interrelated in the story. Paulo uses the characters of The King Salem, The Crystal merchant, the Alchemist and Fatima to explore the theme that true happiness can only be achieved if one works hard towards his goal or purpose in life and to realize one’s personal legend, one must work hard, make great sacrifices, and take risks. True happiness is only when one realizes his Personal legend.

In The Road, a novel by Cormac McCarthy, published in 2006, a man and a boy struggle to survive as they travel south on the road in the post-apocalyptic world. On their journey to the coast, the man and the boy encounter the remains of an ashen world, ravaged by men who are willing to kill to survive. Among the death and destruction of the post-apocalyptic world, McCarthy illustrates how the man gains resilience from the spirituality he finds within his son, which proves how in a world void of official religion, belief in something greater than yourself creates the strength necessary to survive. The man sees his son as a spiritual figure that provides him the strength to survive in the desolate world. As the man was drying off his son’s hair by the fire, he thought it was all “like some ancient anointing,” why not “evoke the forms” and “construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them,” showing how the man identifies his son as sacred (McCarthy 74).

Ralph Emerson once said,” Envy is ignorance; imitation is suicide” (370). In the novel, A Separate Peace, written by John Knowles readers are taken on a journey about a young boy named Gene Forrester who struggles finding himself. Gene faces these obstacles because he is determined to be his best friend, Finny in every aspect. The novel demonstrates how Gene finds that there is no separate peace after a challenging period at Devon, where he grows from a boy to a young man ready for war. In the novel readers see countless times where Gene conforms for Finny and by doing this Gene starts envying and imitating Finny.

His biggest dream was to become a steam boatmen. A summary about the book is a young boy running away from home because he has an abusive father. Two sisters, Miss Watson and an unnamed widow, takes Huck in and tries to teach him etiquette and tells him to read the Bible. The sisters want to adopt him but Huck wants to be free. Along the way he finds an escaped slave named Jim.

Eventually Doodle did learn to walk, but Brother was still not satisfied, he wanted his brother to be able to run and swim like all the other kids. Time was running out on Brother’s plan, so in the middle of a thunderstorm he started running away from his brother. Because of the strain on his heart Doodle died. His last words were “don't leave me Brother”. I believe The Scarlett Ibis is the best story because

This heart wrenching story is told by the cousins Benson Deng, Alephonsion Deng, and Benjamin Ajak with the help of Judy A. Bernstein. It depicts the struggles and the survival of the Lost Boys during the war in Sudan. These three young men share the hardships they faced in Sudan during the war and the hardships they encountered in America. The novel is split into four parts, each part telling a different part of their journeys. Part one, The Village of Juol, illustrates they early childhood these boys had in Sudan.

Black Boy delves into the upbringing of Richard Wright, who comes from an impecunious and broken home. He illustrates that the absence of a father figure can result in an abrupt end to one’s childhood, and the early start of adulthood, where new responsibilities must be met. When Richard is ordered to get food for his family, he gets accosted and robbed by a gang in his neighborhood. As he returns to the store once again, he “kept [his] stick poised for instant use…that night [he] won the right to the streets of Memphis”(Pg 25). In other words, Richard was forced to withstand danger and learn how to defend himself with the means of providing food to his family.