The Resilience of Lisa Jura
The Children of Willesden Lane, by Mona Golabek, is about a girl named Lisa Jura who is 14 at the time she is sent on the Kindertransport. When she gets to London she never gives up the hope of seeing her family again. Over the course of the story Lisa makes wonderful friends, is reunited with one of her sisters, and earns a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music. By the end of the story Lisa is around 20-21 and is reunited with her older sister, her sister’s husband, their daughter, and has made her first debut. Even though there are many times Lisa wants to give up she never does using love, bravery, music, hope and just pure resilience to pull her though. According to “10 Traits of Emotionally Resilient People”, resilience is a belief in oneself, yet also a belief in something larger than oneself. Lisa mainly uses three forms of resilience love, perseverance, and music to pull through her hard times.
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“I have a sister in Vienna…we very much need someone to sponsor her so she can get on the kinder train…” (Golabek, 59). This is the same love that helps keep the committee together and make friends with the shyest person at the hostel. “We’re the committee right. ‘The committee we are!’” ( Golabek, 95)This love would go under the spot number eight in “10 Traits of Emotionally Resilient People” which would be they enlist their team in this case her team is her family and