Examples Of Adversity In Letters From Rifka

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Adversity can effect all aspects of our lives very quickly. In the novel Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse it shows this very well, and in many ways. This story shows how a girl in a her teenage years faces adversity trying to leave Russia to go to America. This essay shows how Rifka overcomes adversity and the people, the things, and the ways she used to get through it. Two of the main obstacles Rifka faced were getting ring worm, and getting held at Ellis Island because she had no hair from the ring worm. In Letters from Rifka it says, “Mr. and Mrs. Nebrot you and your two sons should leave for America as planned. But, Rifka must stay until her ring worm heals.” (Hesse 48) “They are holding me, detaining me on Ellis Island at the hospital