![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Family is an important feature of her story and considering her earliest memories, it is a relief to watch her life improve thanks to her jovial spirit and the loving people in her life.ĭePrince, being a professional ballerina, talks a lot about ballet. ![]() Much of the story describes DePrince’s experiences in ballet after the DePrince family adopted her with a couple of the other girls from the orphanage. However, DePrince’s narration shows that despite the terrible situation, she was still bright and animated, making friends with the other children and making up games. She talks about the orphanage that her uncle dragged her to, and the terrible treatment of the children there. Her birth parents, who were clearly a shining light in her life, died in quick succession due to events surrounding the civil war. DePrince’s recollections of events are often harrowing. Taking Flight begins with many of DePrince’s memories of her native country of Sierra Leone, which was experiencing a destructive civil war. Taking Flight is DePrince’s memoir of her life as a war orphan who became a professional ballerina in the United States. Upon seeing that ballerina, ballet became DePrince’s love. Adopted from war-torn Sierra Leone when she was young, her life was forever changed by her adopted family and a picture of a ballerina, ripped from a magazine, floating in the wind. Professional ballerina Michaela DePrince hasn’t always lived in the world of ballet. ![]()
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