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Personal Narrative: Yeonmi's Journey

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What risks are you willing to take for a chance of survival? In worlds like this you must be able and willing to overpass a lot of difficult challenges, including losing your most precious and valuable things. For instance escaping to freedom, yet looking after your family while starving; doing the grossest things like drinking urine to survive; being able to survive 12 hours without getting purged or tortured by other people.

Yeonmi Park is a North Korean girl who lived in the poorest conditions in Hysen. Yeonmi’s dream as a child was to eat bread, but as she grew older her dreams changed now it was to visit the capital of North Korea. Park’s father was arrested and taken to prison, because he was caught selling in the Black Market. Her mother went out of Hysen to look where they had her husband. Yeonmi and her sister Eunmi stayed alone for months, having …show more content…

Mamere, Abital, Paul, Jeremiah and Theo were traveling to Kenya, where there is a refugee camp is located. Their village had been fully destroyed by the military, and their parents were dead. On the way to Kenya they stayed to live in the tall grass. In the morning Mamere stood up and eye contacted some military soldiers. Theo immediately stood up to save the other and instead they took him. “You are the chief now Mamere.” Abital told Mamere. When they finally arrived to the camp, they stayed there for 13 years. The United States were bringing some refugees to America. Later in the story Abital receives a letter from the refugee camp in Kenya that her brother Theo was there. Mamere went back to the camp to check if it was really him. When Mamere confirmed that it Theo he tried to get him a passport, but the lawyers told Mamere that they couldn’t do that. Mamere gave Theo his passport so he could go to America and for Mamere to stay there. Mamere told Theo that he did a “Good lie” when he stood up to save

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