Paridise Road - 1213 Words

Even in the most difficult conflicts, we are never without hope â€Å"The war is over. Once more we can be friends.† Is what the women in the Sumatra camp in the movie ‘Paradise Road’ thought they would never live to hear. Though they were in the presence of conflict, distress, and pure evil for such a long time, a majority of them never lost hope even in the most difficult conflicts and lived to see the day when they were finally set free. Whilst some characters such as Rosemary, whom was confronted with conflict, lost all hope and as a result perished in her misery. In a wider social context there are many cases of women who were prisoners during war who got through by grasping onto something which gave them hope, one of these women is known†¦show more content†¦In the dictionary hope is defined as ‘A feeling of expectation and desire for a certain thing to happen.’ In my own words hope is something everybody needs in order to pull through tough times, it’s something that is needed to survive. I believe that everybody has hope but not everyone can find it and sometimes it can be too late. To say we are never without hope would be true in the sense that everybody does have hope, whether that be unrevealed or exposed. Therefore it doesn’t always necessarily shine during the most difficult conflicts, leaving the prompt restricted. I know within myself that there were times where I almost gave up. My dad was rushed into surgery a year or so ago with a brain tumour, at first the haste of the situation didn’t give me any time to think. There was a high chance of losing him on the operating table and I felt as though I had lost all hope within myself. I knew that I had to find hope so I gave myself time to think, realising that my dad is the strongest person I know and he has never lost a fight in his life, so why would it happen now? I had found my hope in a time of conflict and it helped me get through. The question I continue to ask myself is ‘where would I be at this point in time if I didn’t discover that hope?’ I know of a girl who wasn’t as lucky as I was when it came to finding her inner hope. She lived alone with her single mother and her mother become very ill with cancer.