• She can finally get it off her chest

• She can finally not feel alone

• She can get the help she needs to recover

Wab's story shows strength and resilience because:

• Being able to revisit such traumatic memories is a challenge in itself

• No matter what happened, she kept pushing to survive

• RiRi will have to show strength and resilience from even hearing the story, because it terrifies her

•Wab's ability to tell her story.

•Trapped, but can finally trust again.

Wab's Coming to Story shows Resilience

•Doesn't give up, keeps moving.

•"When I could walk, I did. One block, then another, then a field, past a line of trees, and into the bush" (85).

• she was able able to move on to how her life is now.

• she could tell her story and reface what happened

Wab’s coming to story shows strength by how:

• having to face that people will know/ hear what happened to her and could have an opinion.

• telling people around her how she got away.

• trusting the people around her.

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1. She learns to trust people again

2. Despite what happened to her she keeps surviving and becomes stronger instead of giving up when Miig says “ Wab had found her family again in us” page 85

• Not bottling up her feelings

• Letting her trauma go by telling her story

• Telling the story of what she had to survive through

Wab's coming to story shows strength and resilience by:

• she was able to keep going and survive at a very young age even though she was violated and abused

• she found ways to feed her self and fight off men

• resilience is shown through her willingness to share her traumatic experience

Quote" I limped home to my mother to Freddie the Malaysian. There was no more running instead i hid."

Wab’s story shows strength and resilience by: Not giving up and continuing to fight despite everything that’s happened to her

The significance of the people shes sharing it too and how they can comfort her.

Confronting her past instead of pushing it down and hiding it.

The company of other people who could have similar pasts or upbringings.

Quote: (Page 81) “And people would call in if a Swedish girl wore a braid in her hair.” Showing the severity and actions people would take for money, and that nobody was safe even without association.

• she can trust again

• Her relationship with chi-boi provides a sense of stability and purpose

• The story shows that healing doesnt happen in a straight line and that individuals cope with trauma in different ways, such as through emotional withdrawal or finding support in their relationships. 

Resilience

Wab's story shows her strength through how she quietly survives and finds ways to cope after her trauma.

Strength

Wab opens up about the abuse and trauma she went through, which takes courage.

• Wab had to learn how to get food without the help of others by becoming a delivery girl.

• She did tasks in return for food instead of money.

As an example, on page 85 Wab says “When I could walk, I did. One block, then another, then a field, past a line of trees, and into the bush”. This shows that even through all of the trauma that Wab has been through she still relearns how to walk and keep living on.