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Conor said, "After maybe a half a minute watching my host family eat, my jaw hanging slack near my collarbone, I noticed they had stopped eating, one by one, and were staring at me, wondering why I wasn't eating. I came to my senses. I had been with my host family for all of ten minutes and was on the verge of causing some irrevocable offense. I forced a smile, took a chunk of rice and daal and a smidge of some kind of pickled vegetable, and placed it gently into my mouth."  (page 12, part 1)

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I picked this passage because I felt like it related to my culture. In Hispanic cultures, as like many, it is rude to not accept and eat all the food given to you. So when I read that Conor didn't want to offend his host family, it reminded me of my own.

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Grennan wrote, " I fell back into village life. I became closer with the children. The older boys stayed up later than they had the previous year, and they wanted to hear about life in America, and to share their memories from their home region of Humla. They asked me about the things they had learned in school: airplanes, Michael Jordan, American football, the fastest cars, Australia, whales, World War II, electricity, and so on. They never believed me about the Moon, that men had walked on it, or about the size of the ocean." (page 67, part 2)

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In part two, the passages that stuck out to me the most, were the ones where Conor was interacting and bonding with the boys. These parts are significant because in part one, Conor says multiple times how volunteering at the orphanage was just a "stint", a tactic for talking to women in bars. But the longer he is in Nepal, the stronger the bonds he makes with the boys become. And this shows real character change in Grennan. He broke out of his macho, manly state and began to show how he truly cares for the boys. And he became like an older brother to them.

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I chose the passage where Grennan said, "I needed to raise money. I wrote that down. It became the step before 'Fly to Kathmandu'...I needed an official nonprofit organization. The problem was, of course, that I had no idea how to start a nonprofit organization... I wanted to find the children, but I didn't know how much that would cost. I wanted to give them a home, but I had no idea how to accomplish that." (page 104, part 3)

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I chose these excerpts from part three of the novel because I felt they showed the progression of the main plot. Conor wrote this book to raise awareness, encourage people to try and help in their own ways, and to tell the story behind his nonprofit. I thought this page really highlighted the steps Grennan took to get his organization up and running.

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Conor wrote, " 'It's actually too big-- I'm not married. But thank you for showing me,' I told him. He stopped in his tracks. 'No wife?' 'No, no wife.' 'You have girlfriend?' 'No, no girlfriend.' 'You are a gay man?' This was the obvious conclusion in Nepal, I supposed. 'Gay? No, I'm not gay-- I'm just not interested in a relationship.' ... 'You had girlfriend recently?' Was this conversation really happening? " (page 147, part 4)

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The passage I chose for part 4 was significant to the story because of it's humor. I feel Grennan may have included this part, not only because he was describing the process of him finding his home, but to provide the reader with some comic relief. Writers often do this when writing about a more serious topic to break up the monotony of a subject or to keep the reader entertained. Personally, I love when authors mix in a little bit of comedy or silliness into their books, it keeps me from getting bored.

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Lastly, I selected my favorite passage from the entire book. This part of the book brought tears to my eyes. Conor, this man who, in the beginning of the book, was leaving the United States for a fun-driven trip around the world, expressing his love for a woman he hardly knows. True, deep love. It was beautiful to read how passionately he felt for Liz, and how he hoped she was just as passionate about him. This specific part of the book will always stick with me. Conor spoke with emotion and showed a major character change from how he was at the beginning of the novel.

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Grennan said, "I was in love with her. I thought about her constantly. I missed her. She was my best friend. Yet I never saw her. I mulled over different solutions, different ways I might be able to get her to visit or find ways of visiting her. But in the end, we lived nine thousand miles apart, and I just didn't know if we could ever overcome that. Worse, I was afraid she might be thinking the same thing. I knew that there were other men lobbying to date her. Rich guys, guys with impressive jobs in DC. I knew that she had turned them down, and she always told me how much she wanted to be with me, not with them. But they were there, and I wasn't. I began to realize that love wasn't always enough. I walked slower than usual that day, unable to shake that depressing realization." (page 262, part 5)