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A Hero's Journey By Anu Rode Analysis

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magine living in a Country for a long time and the Country you live in is your home and where you grew up and spent your entire life in. Then have to move to an entirely new continent. This is the challenge that Anu Rode had to face. Anu Rode's story begins in India around 2000, Anu rode's husband, Sanjay, had already been in America for a few months to work for a company. Because Sanjay's expertise was so badly needed, the company wanted him to stay for another year. Since Anu was already going to move to America soon, she decided that it would be better to move earlier because she was 6 months pregnant with her first child.This made her feel like if she had her baby in America, it would be better for the baby's health. Sanjay then came back to India to make the moving process easier. By the time to move rolled around to move, Anu had given birth to a baby daughter two months premature, that baby's name was Krishna. Because they were the first family to move to America, they received no internal help from …show more content…

At this point, many people would have given up, but Anu did not. When Anu was not learning many new things in the classroom she would be studying long nights at the local library. She also did not have many people to help her on the long nights to motivate her. But Anu bravely decided that she had to persevere through these hardships. Anu also had to raise two children and at home and had to go to the library at night to study. As Anu said, "The only person taking care of my child was Sanjay and occasionally a grandma from India." This made Anu Rode feel very bad because she felt like she did not take enough care of her daughter because Sanjay would take care of her. Because of these challenges and hardships, Anu had felt like she had to give up, but Anu decided to make a different, harder

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