PERSERVERANCE

PERSERVERANCE

AMINATA SHOWS LOTS OF PERSERVERANCE
1. "TO RESIST WAS SUICIDE, AND WHO BUT MY OWN FATHER AND MOTHER WOULD FIGHT FOR ME NOW, AND FIGHT TO THE DEATH." AMINATA COULD HAVE GIVEN UP RIGHT AFTER HER PARENTS HAD BEEN KILLED BUT INSTEAD SHE THOUGHT ABOUT HER PARENTS AND WHAT THEY WOULD HAVE WATED HER TO DO.
  1. THIS SHOWS PERSERVERANCE BECAUSE SHE CONTINUED ON WALKING EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS VERY UP SET THAT BOTH OF HER PARENTS HAD BEEN KILLED AND ALSO DID NOT KNOW WHERE WAS GOING.
  2. ON PAGE 57 A MAN JUMPS OFF OF THE SHIP. AMINATA COULD HAVE JUMPED OFF TOO BUT SHE KNEW THAT SHE HAD TO PERSERVERE AND CONTINUE ON THIS SCRY JOURNEY.
    1. AMINATA COULD HAVE JUMPED OFF TOO BUT SHE KNEW THAT SHE HAD TO PERSERVERE AND CONTINUE ON THIS SCARY JOURNEY.
    2. "IT SEEMED TO ME THAT WE HAD TRAVELLED TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SUN... MY FINGERS GREW THICK AND NUMB EVERY NIGHT AND THROBBED EVERY DAY AS THE SUN CLIMBED THE SKY... LIKE OTHERS, I HAD BEEN GIVEN A ROUGH CLOTH BARELY LONG ENOUGH TO WRAP ALONG MY BACKSIDE."
      1. AMINATA COULD HAVE GIVEN UP AND JUST LET HERSELF DIE BUT SHE PERSERVERED. SHE KNEW THAT IT WOULD NOT STAY COLD FOREVER AND THAT SHE WOULD GET TO GO SOMEWHERE WARM.
      2. "I FELT THAT I WOULD SOONER DIE THAN EAT PORK"
        EVEN THOUGH SHE DOES NOT EAT THE PORK SHE STILL MANAGES A WAY TO STAY ALIVE. THIS IS PERSERVERANCE BEACAUSE SHE COULD HAVE JUST NOT EATEN ANYTHING BUT SHE DECIDED TO EAT SOME OF THE OTHER FOODS THAT WERE GIVEN TO HELP HER STAY ALIVE.
        "YOU ARE VERY STRONG TO HAVE SURIVIVED THE CROSSING"
        THIS SHOWS HOW AMINATA IS STRONG AND HOW HERE PERSERVERANCE PAIED OFF DURING HER JOURNEY. IF SHE DID NOT MAKE IT THROUGH THE JOURNEY SHE WOULD NOT HAVE MADE ALL OF THEE FRIENDS AND GET BACK TO LIVING A FREE LIFE
        "HE SHOWED ME HOW TO CLIMB INTO THE VATS, DIP THE BRUSH IN LYE AND WATER AND SCRUB THE WOOD."
        AMINATA COULD HAVE GIVEN UP WHEN SHE WAS TOLD TO CLEAN THESE VATS BUT SHE PERSERVERED AND DID THE JOB. MAYBE SHE KNEW THAT IF SHE DID A GOOD JOB SHE WOULD BE REWARDED.
        "ROBINSON APPLEBY BEGAN SNIPPING WITH HIS SCISSORS. SILVERS OF MY HAIR BEGAN TO FALL OVER MY FOREHEAD AND INTO MY EARS."
        AMINATA COULD HAVE GIVEN UP BUT WITH PERSERVERANCE SHE JUST STAYED STILL AND LET HIM CUT HER HAIR UP. SHE KNEW THAT HER HAIR WOULD GROW BACK.
        ON PAGE 183 THIS IS SAID: " AND THERE I SAW ROBINSION APPLEBY PUT MY BABY INTO A MAN'S ARMS UP ON A CARRIAGE."
        RIGHT AT THIS POINT AMINATA COULD OF EAISLY GIVED UP BUT WITH PERSERVERANCE SHE CONTINUED TO LIVE. THIS IS HER FIRST BORN AND SHE DOES NOT WANT ANYTHING TO HAPPEN TO HIM, BUT SINCE HE WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM HER SHE WILL PERSERVERE THROUGH THE PAIN.
        "I TRIED TO YANK MY WRIST FREE BUT HE HELD FIRMLY. WITH HIS OTHER HAND, HE SLAPPED ME IN THE FACE. THEN LET ME GO."
        AMINATA COULD HAVE GIVEN UP HERE AND LEFT LINDO BUT SHE PERSERVERED. SHE KNEW THAT IF SHE LEFT SHE WOULD GET MUCH MORE PUNISHMENT THEN JUST A SLAP IN THE FACE.
BY: ELIZABETH RUNNALLS

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