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From West with the Night

From “West with the Night” by Beryl Markham 

“It is no good telling yourself that one day you will wish you had never made that change; it is no good anticipating regrets” (527). 

Word count: 272

In this excerpt you got to follow along Markham in her journey with dangers and fighting for what she had. She ended started the chapter in explaining what it was like to fly for her in every detail, which was interesting to read. She then goes on to tell the struggles of what it was like to struggle for food in this area and the difficulties they went through to survive. She ended her story with a lot of “what if’s” questions that I believe set a picture of her mindset throughout her whole journey. Which I also believe ties into the quote I picked out that was said in the beginning of the excerpt. It showed me that she was a very accepting person of everything that happens to her and whatever does happen she isn’t going to regret it because she doesn’t like to anticipate regretting something. She understood the dangers of her job and the life she had chosen to do, but she loved what she did and knew she wanted to take that chance. Her story really displays her entire thought processes and how her mind wonders into all these different scenarios, but she always seems to be able to talk herself out of them. I think being in these kinds of situations would make my mind wonder a lot, especially if I was in a place where I could be in constant danger. 


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