Miracles
In “Vinh Chung’s Where the Wind Leads” there was a series of dramatic events that happened to the Chung family during their journey to America. However every time the family was in danger it seemed like there was a holy intervention that miraculously saved them.
The image of god was portrayed in the book just before the family’s lives were about to change was about to travel to America in the beginning of the story started Ms. Chung had a dream that she could not explain until she settled in America. It was not a nightmare, she was afraid at the events happening in the dream:
Suddenly everyone fell over dead. My father and all eight of us children—we were dead too. Even my mother was dead; though in the manner of dreams, she was still conscious, and her eyes were open. At the far corner of the market, she saw a solitary standing figure: a man dressed in a white robe, with long brown hair and a beard to match. As my mother watched, unable to move a muscle, the man began to make his way across the market towards her, stopping from time to time to point down at one of the reclining bodies—and whoever he pointed to, that person came back to life and stood up. (Chung 89)
The dream Ms.Chung had that day was like a fore shadow of the struggles they were about to experience. There was no explanation to this astonishing dream…show more content… Everyone in the boat was scared, however the pirates looked as scared as the refugees were. The refugees had heard stories about evil pirates who raped the women, decapitated the people aboard the boats and even kill them and throw them in the ocean. Nevertheless, these pirates were young and unexperienced so they took only the jewerly they could see. “These pirates were not only young and skinny but underequipped, and with limitations like that, the only way they could terrify and intimidate was to bluster and bluff.” (Chung
