Analysis

Analysis

 

            As already alluded, this chapter helps to create the contrast in the author’s experience and by extension helps to give weight to the level of sacrifice that the author made when he decided to stay in Nepal and help the ‘orphans’ reunite with their parents. From the mother’s and friend’s reactions when they finally get to meet Grennan, it is evident that the author was loved very much back at home. The author’s description of the food back at home also proves that he had missed a lot during his time away from home. The author’s friends rush to hook him up with a mate also shows the changes in his social life. Furthermore, the author’s hurry to find a new job and his admission that he was broke shows the break in his career. All these happening serves one purpose: proving that the author selfness. It is interesting to note the kind of comfort that he, the author had decided to sacrifice in order to navigate the dangerous juggles of Nepal in order to keep his promise of reuniting the children at the orphanage with their parents. This chapter, above all, brings to the fore the fact that Grennan had performed his own expectation and the expectations of his own family and friends. At this point we see a man who had all the best that life could offer and who had set out just to have more fun and adventure but who is transformed into a selfless savior.