One of the main themes in Strength in What Remains is kindness and generosity shown to people who need it the most, from the people less likely to show this type of emotion. Deo’s success and happiness at the end of the story is all thanks to the people who showed him kindness, and took him in. While in New York City Deo is treated very harshly because of his isolation due to the fact that he does not speak english. He is finally shown kindness by a church worker named Sharon when they both bond over the french language, Deo is drawn to Sharon but more importantly Sharon is drawn to Deo. After this experience Sharon makes it her mission to help Deo enter school, and find a place to live. What motivated Sharon to help Deo was the fact that Deo had seen humanity at its very worst with horrible murders, and death practically every where. Sharon wanted to restore his faith in humanity in the slightest ways by showing him kindness, and love while he was adjusting to life in America.
With the Kindness that people showed Deo, he was able to reach his full potential of going to medical school. To reach a persons full potential that person must be nurtured and cared for so that they can grow and be the best that they can be. This was a motivation for Nancy, and Charlie who also financially supported Deo during his years of schooling in New York. “What kind of human potential does he have?” p. 170, Charlie began to wonder this after meeting Deo. People new that upon meeting Deo that he was very intelligent possible brilliant. Sharon, Nancy, and Charlie saw this in him and new that Deo could accomplish great things if someone showed him love, cared for him, and was generous. In the second part of the story Deo really began to flourish and truly love what he was doing, he cam a long way from a man escaping violence and destruction to a man who respected in his profession. Whether it was to restore faith in humanity, or to
I agree with you... Despite so many things that Deo went thru before his escape, he really met some wonderful people that helped him through so much. Because of this help he was able to over come the trauma and attend medical school!!! Very inspirational when so many of us feel that we have obstacles that prevent us from meeting our goals,we have no idea what obstacles means!
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