Obstacles In Everyday Life

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Everybody experiences different forms of obstacles throughout their life. It can be emotional or physical. Children are vulnerable and can get impacted in many ways. Mary is a thirteen year old girl in Walkabout that has to be someone her little brother could depend on, fight to survive with an uncivilized stranger, and leave a past life.
One crucible that Mary endures is the dependence her younger brother has on her. It is nighttime in the Australian desert after Peter and Mary’s plane has crashed. They huddle together in the gully, both trembling. Peter whispers that he is hungry, so Mary pulls out a stick of barley sugar, snaps it in half and offers it to him. Peter starts to fidget because his leg is bleeding again. Mary takes the handkerchief