A Hope More Powerful Than The Sea Analysis
Amulya Surabhi, Bell 1, A Hope More Powerful than the Sea by Melissa Fleming
Doaa, a real hero.
Quickly picture a hero. What do you see?
I’ll produce to you a popular image. Grand music to elevate the figure is playing in the background. A man with perfect posture, and confidence echoing through his pose is smiling almost victoriously at you. The background could vary, however chances are there is a yellow gleam coming from the man as if he were the sun itself.
It’s not an entirely unjust stereotype. The heroes printed on priceless comics and the heroes viewed on television (obviously) has its good share of fans. ( I should know this because I too am a buff of these sort of heroes.) So when people don’t think of the people in the real world …show more content…
But this line brought the reality to me. Not everybody lives the way I do.
Not only Doaa, but the several refugees who were becoming more hated day by day in Egypt felt this way; they couldn’t go back home without the fear of being shot by the soldiers, they weren’t liked where they were, which made settling in harder. The refugees could not move anywhere else, as they were already considered nobodys.
Just imagining the situation horrifies me. It takes a lot of perseverance and hope to live in conditions such as Doaa’s. And that must be the reason why after Doaa got to a better place, she helped so many others. Due to her past, what she was able to do, and passionate about later on in life is what makes Doaa a hero.
“Dear God, I have the will to get there, but please give me the strength.”
Honestly, as for me, I have the strength, and I have the will to achieve my goal. However I am just too lazy. But Doaa is different - she is someone who will do what it takes to achieve her goal - and in the context where Doaa says this, with everything that was happening to her, intrigued me - how can a fifteen word request seem so powerful? And how could one keep so much hope even after losing almost
Doaa, a real hero.
Quickly picture a hero. What do you see?
I’ll produce to you a popular image. Grand music to elevate the figure is playing in the background. A man with perfect posture, and confidence echoing through his pose is smiling almost victoriously at you. The background could vary, however chances are there is a yellow gleam coming from the man as if he were the sun itself.
It’s not an entirely unjust stereotype. The heroes printed on priceless comics and the heroes viewed on television (obviously) has its good share of fans. ( I should know this because I too am a buff of these sort of heroes.) So when people don’t think of the people in the real world …show more content…
But this line brought the reality to me. Not everybody lives the way I do.
Not only Doaa, but the several refugees who were becoming more hated day by day in Egypt felt this way; they couldn’t go back home without the fear of being shot by the soldiers, they weren’t liked where they were, which made settling in harder. The refugees could not move anywhere else, as they were already considered nobodys.
Just imagining the situation horrifies me. It takes a lot of perseverance and hope to live in conditions such as Doaa’s. And that must be the reason why after Doaa got to a better place, she helped so many others. Due to her past, what she was able to do, and passionate about later on in life is what makes Doaa a hero.
“Dear God, I have the will to get there, but please give me the strength.”
Honestly, as for me, I have the strength, and I have the will to achieve my goal. However I am just too lazy. But Doaa is different - she is someone who will do what it takes to achieve her goal - and in the context where Doaa says this, with everything that was happening to her, intrigued me - how can a fifteen word request seem so powerful? And how could one keep so much hope even after losing almost