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Wanjala Chris (Ed): Memories We Lost and other stories. 'The grass is, deceptively, always greener on the other side.' Discuss this saying in the light...

Wanjala Chris (Ed): Memories We Lost and other stories.

'The grass is, deceptively, always greener on the other side.' Discuss this saying in the light of Barry McKinley's Almost Home.

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Martin
Introduction

In the story Almost home by Barry McKinley, there is evidence that the grass is not always greener on the other side, Ali leaves 'I'angiers in search of a better life in Ireland but he suffers a lot, He has to lie to the people back home that he is doing well and posts pictures on Facebook showing he is pursuing medicine.

Illustrations

There is deception that the grass is always greener on the other side. Ali had gone to Ireland when he was seventeen, He told people he was a medical student and his picture on Facebook shows him standing outside a surgeon college with bundles of books to deceive people that all was well in the foreign country,

In the first years he had slept on sofas of people he had met. He did odd jobs like slicing kebabs, wiping tables and cleaning pans. He had sold Christmas trees and packed meat. Ali is being deported for the third time. He tries to escape by telling a French woman that he is being abducted by the men, the men explain to the lady that they are deporting him. On a plane, he had been disruptive claiming he was terrorist.

Ali was an illegal alien and he does not want to go back home. He knows that the moment he lands he will be arrested. He will be a burden again to his family. they had raised two thousand Euros to get him out of the country and he had never paid them back. In jail, they would have to look for money to bribe and feed him. He decides to jump into the water with his hands handcuffed, sure suicide. He decides to drown himself to escape the shame of the truth that the grass was not green on the other side.
marto answered the question on August 27, 2019 at 09:54

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