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I think life often throws us different situations that we don’t often know how to handle at first. Issues like death of a loved one, abuse from one’s own father, and separation from  family are all very difficult situations to go through. Main character Una could not help  the tragedies that lay behind her and before her. The experiences that this sixteen year old girl had to endure makes it hard for any individual in her position not to be consumed by the trauma and travel a downward spiral. I think it was wise of Una to seek solace from the sea: she had to break free from the constraints of society to capture her own voice even if it meant temporarily isolating herself from her family, and pretending to be a boy.  By setting this time to revamp and re-evaluate her dreams, ideas, and ambitions, without the noise of external voices, and the allure of meeting social expectations, as well as the immediate needs of her family, so that she may be reconciled with her past as well as face the strife that the future may being.