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A colour map. How dangerous is the journey
Made by: Sophia. Y
Novel Study Part 4
Section 2 #2
Legend:
Red = Very dangerous
Yellow = Somewhat dangerous
Green = Not dangerous
Isabel's journey begins with a big riot, that took place within Havana, Cuba; during the riot her dad and gradfather, Lito has both been injured.
After the riot Isabel's family starts to consider leaving the country due to their living conditions. They soon choose to do so by using their neighbour's boat to escape and taking them along.
Staying in Cuba was a good decision during previous times but, now going on a sudden unplanned journey to another country can be significantly worse. However, choosing to leave would provide an opportunity to escape
the issues that are present in Cuba.
While on a ride within the straits of Florida, the boat that Isabel was riding on was nearing a US cargo ship. The boat and the ship hit each other which caused the boat to capsize.
Everyone was thrown into the ocean and were likely going to drown if they didn't get back into the boat. Luckily they all survived.
This was the most dangerous part of the journey to seek asylum in the US because
of the big risk of drowning here.
As the boat was nearing the Andros Islands of the Bahamas water started to leak into the boat. This was because of a gunshot in the boat earlier when police shot at the boat as it left the coats of Cuba.
Once this was noticed everyone immediately started to bail out the water as they headed the the Bahamas to try and fix it.
At this point in the journey there was a potential risk that the boat could sink, but fortunately the sudden leakage was quickly mitigated.
After they left the coast of the Andros Islands Isabel's friend, Ivan chose to swim beside the boat as it sailed towards America because he didn't want to flood the boat by putting too much weight on it as people were already pailing water out; sadly this would be a choice to regret because only 1 day before everyone reaches America he gets bit on the leg by a shark.
This resulted in Ivan dying of blood loss.
A previously made choice such as this
could have easily been avoided however due to
the steaks it was a reasonable thing to do but
still those actions came with a risk.
Soon after Ivan's death, the two families were nearing the coast of Miami.
As they were nearing towards Florida a US coast guard ship was going to catch them in the waters, which would result in a deportation back to Cuba. Isabel's mother was about to give birth which would make it easier to find them as well.
So in an act of desperation and for the sake of everyone Lito sacrificed himself and headed towards the ship to distract them so that the rest could make it to Miami safely.
Moves like this can be very risky because of
how it could potentially lead to the
finding of everyone else traveling on
the boat.
Finally, after long hours with little amounts of food, water and protection everyone finally made it to America. As Isabel stepping onto the shores of Miami, Florida for the first time she lifted her baby brother who was just born as people cheered for their arrival as refugees.
After making it to the US everything goes well for Isabel's family and their neighbours since they can now gain asylum and live happily know that
they are safe in America.