In the novel "The Higher Power Of Lucky", an adopted girl named "Lucky" lives in California, Hard Pan, with her Guardian: Brigitte. She has two friends: Lincoln, a knot tyer, and Miles, a boy whose favourite book is "Are You My Mother?". Lucky's mother had died, and Lucky's father had left her alone with Brigitte because he didn’t want to have any children. Later, Lucky suspects Brigitte intends to return to France because she sees her passport and suitcase in her room. Because of this, Lucky wanted to seek her Higher Power. She also saw how Brigitte’s mother wanted Brigitte to come to France. When she tries to run away for fear she would be in an orphanage, she brings and encounters her heavy backpack, her dog (HMS Beagle), a dust storm and Miles, who was injured by a cactus without protection. Lincoln joins them, where Lucky realises Brigitte wanted to adopt her, not intending to leave and return to France with her mother.
Abandonment is an act that can greatly impact communities and families. Abandoning families and societies can affect our relationships between them, population and roles. To leave a family can impact our society and our everyday relationships, whilst abandoning communities can impact our roles and importance towards others, therefore changing many courses for people. Lucky’s mother abandons Lucky by dying, which was a big impact on her to cope with. Lucky’s father rejects taking care of Lucky due to his will not to have children. There were only 43 residents in Hard Pan, and the poverty, natural aspects (the desert area and the name: involving bad soil and leading to troubled lives) and social problems: the twelve anonymous meetings between the gamblers, alcoholics, smokers and overeaters were the reasons for the abandonment. All of them had problems and could not bear to see the others do what they weren’t supposed to, causing social issues between the residents. Abandonment is not only caused by the will of people or death but can also be caused by the economy, environment and social problems, communication or interaction. People can abandon places from the features and issues in the area. Abandoning can impact societies and families caused of the area's characteristics, life and problems.
Things are not Some things can be seen as obvious acts that can be wrong in real life. Certain features don't always turn out to be what they are supposed to mean, do or show, and obvious clues can be untrue or misleading towards our opinions. We can see things differently when the least expected is deceitful. Lucky’s name is misleading and isn’t what it symbolises, representing irony. “Lucky” represents “to be in luck”, but Lucky’s life isn’t lucky. Her mother dies, and her father abandons her. And it seems to her that Brigitte would be abandoning her as well. Lucky thought that Brigitte was leaving for France because she had her passport and suitcase in her room and that her mother was always persuading her to come back to France, while Brigitte was always full of tears. However, Lucky’s opinion wasn’t true, and it turned out that Brigitte was trying to adopt Lucky instead. Sometimes in life, we don’t see what an act or thing is intended to represent. From different viewpoints, clues can be misleading and have irony in such a way. They can really mean another act. People can view things from a perspective that can mislead us into thinking other things, often involving irony.
Bravery can be mental or physical, but it is not always easy to gain. Bravery isn’t easy to have and can involve things that can be difficult for us to encounter or cope. Physically, bravery means coping with harsh environments or areas, survival, irritation and pain. Mentally, bravery can mean how we cope with events that are harsh for us to remember or go through, including death and abandonment. Bravery is never easy to have, whether or not it's physical or mental. Lucky had to encounter a dust storm which she had not wanted, and Miles, whom Lucky had described as “troublesome”. It was hard to encounter the environment and Miles, for whom Lucky had to pay responsibility. And she had found pain and irritation when a moth went into her ear. Lucky had been brave to cope with her mother’s death. In the beginning, she had kept her mother’s remains in her urn, because she did not want to cope with her death. But afterwards, she was brave enough to do so. Bravery isn’t just about doing something great; it’s about overcoming an event that was difficult for us to cope with. And it isn’t always simple to do a thing greatly from our own standards. Bravery isn’t easy to have; it is difficult to cope with an event that is hard for us.
The “The Higher Power Of Lucky” tells us about abandonment, how not everything is what it seems to be, and bravery. Abandonment can greatly impact societies and families. There were 43 residents in Hard Pan and the poverty, natural aspects and social problems between the residents and habits had made the population low, and abandoning level high. Not everything seems like what it is. Sometimes, features and clues can be misleading and lead us to an untrue or wrong opinion. Lucky’s name is “lucky”, but her life is unlucky. Although it seems as though Brigitte is going to leave for France, she is actually trying to formally adopt Lucky. Bravery, whether it’s mental or physical, isn’t always easy to have. It is about doing an event that is hard for us to cope with. Lucky is brave to cope with a dust storm, a five-year-old boy, an irritating bug and her mother’s death.
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