How This Story Touched Base

A Hare in the Elephant's Trunk was a really good book. It had a great story line following Jacob and his friends on their journey's across the land. Knowing that this was something that truly happened really makes me think about what goes on in my own life. I and many others take what we have for granted and I, personally, have grown up knowing there is always going to be someone who has it worse than I do, but this story really touched base for me. The undying hope Jacob and his friends had was amazing, along with how they handled their own land being taken away from them. They could always find something good in every situation, always looking to tomorrow because maybe it held someone better. The way they coped with losing their families and everything they knew of and still thinking things are going to be alright is something I don't think I could rise to in that situation. Really taking the time to try and put myself in that situation is hard. Lots of people don't realize how lucky they are to have things in life like a house, clothes, good food and clean water. This book will stay with me for ever because every time I think I am in a tough situation I think of those young boys and knowing it's a true story and that is actually happened really makes me think.

Survival And Hope

In my mind the theme of this book is survival and hope. They both kinda play into each other throughout the story. I see this because as Jacob is walking he wants to quiet but he tells himself over and over that his mom is going to be ok and waiting for him. After Jacob got to Kenya and noticed that his mom wasn't there either then he start to believe that he wasn't going to ever see her again. He started school at this refugee camp and did that for 3 years then he wanted better education bc he realized that maybe his mother was right by saying that if people were more educated then maybe there wouldn’t be so much war. Jacob started walking to Nairobi for some better school. On the way he traded and sold things and made enough money to pay for his schooling. I think that even though his mom wasn’t ever really with him in person doesn’t mean she wasn’t with him on the inside.