Search results
Key Facts about A Long Way Home. Full Title: A Long Way Home: A Boy’s Incredible Journey from India to Australia and Back Again. When Written: 2012-13. Where Written: Hobart, Tasmania. When Published: 2013. Literary Period: Contemporary Nonfiction.
- Plot Summary Plot
A Long Way Home Summary Next. Prologue. As an adult, Saroo...
- Summary & Analysis
The door of the next house down opens, and a young woman...
- Themes
A Long Way Home tells the story of Saroo Brierley, an...
- Quotes
Theme. All Themes. 1. Remembering Quotes. "Me begot!" Later...
- Characters
A Long Way Home Characters Next. Saroo Brierley. Saroo...
- Symbols
A Long Way Home Symbols Next “Ginestlay” and “Berampur”...
- Plot Summary Plot
Theme. All Themes. 1. Remembering Quotes. "Me begot!" Later she found out I was upset that I had forgotten the way to the school near my Indian home, where I used to watch the students. We agreed that it probably didn't matter anymore. But deep down, it mattered to me.
A Long Way Home is an inspirational, true story of a young man who rediscovers his childhood life, his home, and an identity that he lost years ago. Saroo Brierley, an impoverished, five-year-old ...
Saroo's quest to find his original home and be reunited with his birth mother becomes an important part of his adult life. While growing up in Australia, he wondered about his earlier life but ...
A Long Way Home is a 2013 memoir by Saroo Brierley, an Indian-born author who was accidentally separated from his biological family at the age of five and adopted by an Australian couple. The memoir traces Saroo’s remarkable journey from India to Australia and back again 25 years later. The book inspired the 2016 film Lion and became a New ...
Important Quotes. “The map’s hundreds of place-names swam before me throughout my childhood.”. (Chapter 1, Page 6) Maps are important symbols in Saroo’s memoir. The conventional map of India in his childhood bedroom symbolizes a distant home that seems forever out of reach. The symbolism of the map reminds him of his origins and ...
Chapter 4 Summary: “Salvation”. Fearful after the incident with the railway worker, Saroo distances himself from the train station and heads to Howrah Bridge, crossing the river for the first time. He meets a teenaged boy, who invites him to his house to eat. Saroo stays with the family for several days.
