ME: Going to a new country that has no war probably seems like you are going to a magical land but not for Mariatu. She hated going to London. She wanted to leave.
Audience: WHY? Shouldn’t she be grateful to be away from the wars going on in Sierra Leone? I mean I would. Wouldn’t I?
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You are with our family your friends then you have to leave to a land where you know no one. How would you feel? I would feel horrible. Everything you have ever known is taken from you. The people around you look at you weirdly because you have no hands and your skin is a different color. You don’t fit in. You are not used to the customs of this land. It’s cold and rainy all the time. You cannot leave the house without someone who can speak English. You cannot understand anything that the people around you are saying. You are in your own world and no one understands what you are trying to tell them.
So ask yourself, would you rather be in a country with most of your family and friends or would you rather be in a country where you know no one? Me personally, I would want to be with my family. I am scared to death not having my family around. I would be like Mariatu, feeling out of place and kind of scared. When people that were trying to help her brought up the fact that Mariatu was a very lucky to have left her country the book says that she said “I want to go somewhere else. I want to go to Canada.” pg 154. The person who was in the room at that time, responded kind of like I would. “Don’t be ungrateful,” Mariama scolded. “You have an opportunity here that the children at that camp of yours back in Freetown can only dream of.”
Even though I understand where they were coming from I also understand where Mariatu is coming from. She is frustrated with her life at this moment and she is sure that in Canada it will get better. I think that Mariatu should have been grateful for what these people were doing for her but I think that the people should have listened to her when she said she wanted to go to Canada in the first place.
I also wouldn’t want to leave my family and go to a county where I didn’t know anyone, but if it mean't, I would be able to get an education, and a job to support my family, and maybe one day eventually I would be able to go and visit my family again, then I would consider it. If i was in Mariatu's position i think i would be grateful that I had an opportunity to go to London, even though the people weren't the nicest. They would have inspired me to share my story so I wasn't known as the girl with prosthetic hands.
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