Going Where I M Coming From Analysis

“The Sound of Music” directed by Robert Wise and “Going Where I'm Coming From” by Naomi Shihab Nye were inspirational short stories that helped create the lesson that was revealed in both stories. In the Sound of Music, Maria, who was a very elated, postulant person was trying to adapt to her new home and help the family she was assigned realize to follow your dreams. In “Going Where I'm Coming From”, Naomi was sent to an Armenian school for getting expelled in Missouri and was trying to adapt to her environment before going back to Texas because of a War. Even though Maria and Naomi have different backgrounds in their stories, they both discovered that human beings have not yet found their true place called “home”. The situations
Both characters inherit confidence in their every action throughout the story. For example, Maria is not afraid to express her feelings to the Von Trapp Family and gives them a brief visual of how to just let go and feel the world a little. Naomi also expresses her feelings by marching up to the headmaster and her father about how some things need to be ignored (including not talking to boys and going home). One more clear detail that the two characters both share is that they never give up. In Maria's perspective of the story, even though the Captain is with another woman, she still wants to help the kids grow so they can be successful. Anyone can be successful if they never give up. Because of Maria's courageous acts, she got the Captain at the end of the story. On the other hand, Naomi also showed signs of not giving up by convincing her parents to leave and showing the good signs of going back. But unfortunately, she found Jerusalem peaceful and what she called “home”. Her move back to the U.S was significant because it taught her the importance of how we call a lot of places “home”. Naomi and Maria had a lot of factual beliefs, but those facts effected their daily lives in their own perspectives of both