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Naomi Shahab Nye's Going Where I M Coming From

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Naomi Shahab Nye and Maria are from completely different stories, but something not a lot of people know is how similar, but as well very different, the characters are. Naomi is from the story "Going Where I'm Coming From." In this story, Naomi and her family move from
Missouri to Jerusalem. Naomi hates it in Jerusalem, but once she leaves back to the U.S her idea of home had changed forever. Maria is from T"he Sound of Music." In that story Maria training as a postulant nun, who gets sent away to be the caretaker of the Von Trapp children of 7. At first she is uneasy about her life there, but she soon grows much love for the children, and the captain, and she becomes the mother of the children and the wife on the captain. Both Naomi and Maria …show more content…

Maria has to move from the Abbey to the Von Trapp home, and she is very nervous that they won't accept or like her. When she first arrives to the the home the kids are not very friendly and the captain is extremely intimidating, with his overly restricted rules and customs. Naomi faces something very similar. When Naomi arrives in Jerusalem she is extremely upset and immediately does not like it there. She becomes very depressed and homesick. Both of their moves to new places are rough and rocky. The way Maria and Naomi adapt to their new life is quite different. Maria tries her very best to get the kids to like her. After not very much time, the kids become very attached and close to Maria. Maria then teaches the kids how to sing, and she takes them on fun adventures all over the city making her relationship with the kids even better. Unlike Maria, Naomi does not end up adapting to life in Jerusalem. Her depression and hatred for Jerusalem just gets worse over time.
She has trouble going along with the strict rules and she stands up for herself, but that just causes extra trouble. When she goes to a new school she has a very hard time trying to understand class because it's in a different

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