Amira's Decision To Run Off Together

What will your actions be if someone told you to ditch your current life completely, remove all of your thoughts on your current surroundings, and asking you to try something that you have never done before? Now imagine the world around you slowly change into a wild, windy grassland, you running freely into the woods, ready for a whole new life. Your mind needs to adapt and settle into a fresh environment, experience both physical and mental changes, and encounter things that might have never happened before. In this essay, it will be argued that it is difficult for Tabitha and Amira to make the decision to run off together because they had to put down their old life, make a new decision and step into a complete different life.

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Amira makes a heroic decision to go into the new phase of her life. “‘The glass hill has been very useful to me,’ says Amira quietly, ‘and the golden apples have kept me warm and whole and fed. But I will leave them—I will follow you into woods and across fields, I will be hungry and cold and my feet will hurt. But if you are with me, Tabitha, then I will learn to hunt and fish and tell the poison berry from the pure, and I will see a river raise its skirt of geese, and listen to them make a sound like thunder’”(El-Mohtar, lines 399-403). In this sentence, Amira makes the choice of leaving everything behind, even her glass hill which kept her company for so many years. This indicates that Amira cares a lot about Tabitha which is essential because Tabitha is the only person that makes Amira willing to give up her glass hill and make the decision. Thus, it’s hard for them to make the decision because they had to think carefully before making the

In order to step into another lifestyle, you’d have to adapt and accept a new environment, new surroundings, and a complete new life. As the story concludes, the protagonists prepare themselves for a new life , “‘Where should we go?’ whispers one to another. ‘Away,’ she replies, and holding on to each other, they stumble into the spring, the wide world rising to meet them with the dawn”(El-Mohtar, lines 422-424). The author describes their unsteadiness for the new life ahead, using the words ‘whispers’ and ‘holding on to each other. This shows that the heroes are not yet ready to face nor to adapt the new phase of life, which is crucial because it supports the fact that they are actually considering the decision of running away. Therefore it shows that it is complicated to make the