A Long Way Home By Saroo Brierley - 868 Words

Throughout the course of the book, A Long Way Home, Saroo Brierley, the author, encounters a series of traumatic experiences that lead to bittersweet moments. Unlike a normal child’s infancy, Saroo was physically and mentally consuming. Through his experience, we are able to get a glimpse of the many struggles and hardships young children live in India daily. His petrifying experiences of living on the streets, Liluah, and Nava Jeevan finally lead to his safe haven of being taken by the Brierley’s. Having to live on the streets for weeks at the age of five years old could have not been any more difficult, but through this experience, he was able to acquire instinctive survival skills. With this said, it also includes all the times he had to patiently wait for leftover food and crumbs to be dropped for him to get at least a portion of one daily meal. All of the people that he encountered throughout the weeks that he lived on his own became a part of his bittersweet expe rience. For instance, the little girl that he played with in the river or the old man that saved him twice from drowning, once the young girl had left. The little girl was momentary hope and company to Saroo. He had yet to encounter anyone that he could play with, even if it meant just splashing around and not saying a word. Of course, she could not stay forever and in his excitement, he missed an opportunity to go with her and her family when he was having too much fun splashing in the water;Show MoreRelatedThemes In A Long Way Home By Saroo Brierley719 Words   |  3 Pagesagency and adopted by an Australian couple. Although it seems like fiction, it is fact. This remarkable story is Saroo Brierley’s, and his memoir A Long Way Home, tells this miraculous story of his childhood and how he came to find his birth family. Throughout the memoir, Brierley weaves a tale of his hardships and developing his identity. In his memoir A Long Way Home, Saroo Brierley uses the literary d evices of pacing, imagery, and external conflict to illustrate how the hardships one must endureRead MoreThe Importance Of Being A Transculturally Prepared Nurse1274 Words   |  6 Pagesdetail on the Giger and Davidhizar Transcultural Assessment Model. And explains why it is a very important part to take into account in the nursing profession. It ties all these concepts into several situations occurring in the book A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley. â€Æ' Transcultural Preparedness in Nursing Nursing is a profession that deals with all kinds of patients and by default deals with a vast number of different cultures, values, and morals. Also because it is a profession that deals with illnessRead MoreA Long Way Home Short Story1817 Words   |  8 PagesImagine, twenty five years without knowing if your family is still alive. Twenty five years you have lived away from home. Spending a majority of your life not being able to kiss your mother, nor your siblings. A Long Way Home is an autobiography based on the story of five-year-old Sheru Munshi Khan, who finds himself lost in Calcutta, the capital of India (his country of origin). Sheru had intended that he would just tag along with his brother, Guddu, as he ventured to Khandwa for his work on the