Part 3 review

 Group 3: Alhajri, Faisal M, Almnasef, Ahmed, Alsufair, Hussain Adel, Shi, Mengzhen, and Brandon Doege


Upon returning to New Jersey after Conor's year long journey around the world. He was greeted first by his mother at the airport, and then soon after arriving home friends of Conor were inviting him out on the town. He had seen anyone for so long and had been gone for so long he has a lot to catch up on with his friends. Conor described home as "everything, everywhere, seemed squeaky clean. Everyone in the city dressed in clothes that positively gleamed, in collared shirts, gorgeously pressed and starched. Nobody wore the same clothes even two days in a row, let alone two months in a row" (Conor Grennan Little Princes pg 98). As Conor was enjoying his days back in the United States he did not forget about Nepal. He did not want to be a volunteer who disappeared back into his everyday life, so Conor sent emails frequently to Farid and Hari at the Little Princes orphanage.

Once Conor was back in New Jersey for a few weeks he started a job hunt. He had decided it was that time in his life to get a job, settle down with someone, and start a life. Conor was distracted however by the news from Nepal. Apparently after leaving Nepal the government situation had worsened and protesters were taken to the streets. At the height of the protesting, King Gyanendra on April 24, 2006 announced the reinstatement of the democratically elected parliament. Conor was excited for Nepal and thought the children at Little Princes now had a brighter future in front of them.

Soon after the cease-fire in Nepal, Conor received an email that would change everything he had decided to do with his life since he had been back in the United States. The email was from Viva Bell who was one of the leaders of the Umbrella Foundation. The email said that it had taken the team from the Umbrella Foundation three weeks to get across town to rescue the seven children because of the curfew put on the city by the government. Viva stated that they had found the house without trouble because of Conor's directions given to them. Upon arrival they found Nuraj's mother and her son but the seven children were nowhere to be found. They were soon informed that Golkka had heard the children were to be rescued and he had taken the children around forty-eight hours before the volunteers had arrived. Conor soon became haunted by the words he had said to the children before he left Nepal. He told them that "somebody was coming for them, somebody who they could trust" - (Conor Grennan, Little Princes, pg 101).

After sitting in his bedroom staring at the email for over an hour Conor glanced at his notebook next to the computer that had information on his job search. He tore the pages out and made a new page that contained the names of the seven children and that was is next objective. To save the seven children whom he felt he betrayed. Conor started by informing Farid of the situation with an email. Farid and Conor spent whole days brainstorming on how they would go about saving the children. They decided they somehow needed to raise money to give them a chance in providing the children with a safe place to live. The process started with Conor creating a nonprofit organization. This took many man hours because Conor had no idea how to even start. He needed to have a mission for this organization. After a few more days of brainstorming Conor decided on the mission for his nonprofit organization. His mission would be to find the families of the trafficked children in Nepal. He would start with the children of Little Princes then hopefully find the other seven children in the process. His organization was soon taking shape and he called it Next Generation Nepal. Once Conor raised enough money for his organization. He started using all his contacts he had and was soon back in Nepal to fulfill his nonprofit organizations goal of finding the families of trafficked children and his own personal goal of finding the seven children.

Analysis

            As already alluded, this chapter helps to create the contrast in the author’s experience and by extension helps to give weight to the level of sacrifice that the author made when he decided to stay in Nepal and help the ‘orphans’ reunite with their parents. From the mother’s and friend’s reactions when they finally get to meet Grennan, it is evident that the author was loved very much back at home. The author’s description of the food back at home also proves that he had missed a lot during his time away from home. The author’s friends rush to hook him up with a mate also shows the changes in his social life. Furthermore, the author’s hurry to find a new job and his admission that he was broke shows the break in his career. All these happening serves one purpose: proving that the author selfness. It is interesting to note the kind of comfort that he, the author had decided to sacrifice in order to navigate the dangerous juggles of Nepal in order to keep his promise of reuniting the children at the orphanage with their parents. This chapter, above all, brings to the fore the fact that Grennan had performed his own expectation and the expectations of his own family and friends. At this point we see a man who had all the best that life could offer and who had set out just to have more fun and adventure but who is transformed into a selfless savior.