Thursday, January 19, 2017
Blog Response #7
Each of the stories you are reading deals with heavy topics and extreme hardships. Take a minute to explain what the main character is going through in your book at this time. Use specific details to support why these events are traumatizing to the story. Why do you believe that the author of your book has chosen to focus on these atrocities?? What is his/her purpose for sharing this story with the world in a book? Make a connection with the events in your book in order to try and come to a better understanding of what the characters are going through. Is there something that has happened in our world either today or in the past that compares to these tragedies? Explain.
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the main character in along way gone has to deal with losing his family a civil war where he cant trust anyone and no one will trust him. He has to steal corn from a little kid, he has to gun down a group a of kids, and he also has to watch his brother pretend to be dead in opening while guards observe where his brother lays. the author in this book focuses on the civil war because it is what tore his family country apart and he suffered through the whole thing. i believe he is sharing his story because he is trying to inform the world on what a war can do to people that are caught in the middle of it and what it does to families and even countries. people in the united states have to deal with losing there families to the war just as ishmael has lost his due to the war.
ReplyDeleteThere is a lot of stuff you included in this blog that i wouldnt have thought of. nice job
DeleteYou make great points, and i completely agree, this book is showing that living in a war torn country is like, and shows what you have to do in order to survive.
DeleteI agree with it tearing his family away
DeleteThese are all great points, it's sad to see his family get torn apart.
DeleteI agree that it is tearing his family apart. Also you have some great points about how he is surviving during this.
DeleteI think its safe to say that all the characters are living in a period of war. Some are affected more by the war more than the others. At this point in the book Amir has escaped from the war in Afghanistan, and has moved to America, but they went from being rich to poor due to the money difference. He has a wife and everything seems good, until he looses his father to cancer. But he faces a lot of guilt in the book due to something that happened to him when he was younger. As he was getting married he still doesnt tell his wife about the incident. Then some time later he see's some kites and he thinks of Hasson then decides to go to back to see him. So guilt plays a major role in this book. I thing that the author might have felt a lot of guilt in his life possibly, and has lost his mother at a young age. I would say that 9/11 has had an effect on a lot of children, their parents had died in a tragic event. Amir lost his mother when he was a baby so he did not know her. Amir has had a hard life.
ReplyDeleteAnd since Amir assumed before his fathers death that his father blamed him for the death of his mother really amplified the guilt he must have felt. Not making any of the other things he faced any easier
DeleteThe main character Ishmael's village was attacked by rebels and is now on the run, trying to survive with his brother and friends from rebels trying to kill them and other villagers not trusting the boys. I believe the author chose to focus on this because its telling you how the author became the guy he is today. If he didn't tell these parts of his life then anything else he told you would be pointless because you wouldn't understand what he is talking about. I think the purpose for telling it in a book is because its easiest for him to explain it, the author, from what I've read so far, has gone through hell and retelling his story out loud would brake him in a lot of ways, writing a book about his story was probably better for him.
ReplyDeleteI agree that part of why he wrote this book is to show how he became who he is today, but i also think it is to show what people go through in third-world, war torn countries
Deletei agree with all the points you made about why he wrote this book
DeleteI like that you said this made him who he is today. I can also agree with that.
DeleteIn our story The kite Runner the characters are facing the down fall of Afghanistan as it fall and becomes a war zone. As well as the struggles people face becoming refugees in other country in this case The characters travel out of there home land first crammed into a truck where they reach a checkpoint and have to face living inside of dirty basement full of refugees before climbing into the belly of a fuel truck and nearly dying from fumes. Once they finally make it into america they face the hardships of poverty and a small amount of segregation. I feel the authors purpose of highlighting and sharing these events was to open our eyes at the hardships and troubles people face before during and after becoming a refugee. This story directly correlates to the refugees we took in during these events in the real world. It is accurate representation of the side of these issues that we don't get to see.
ReplyDeletein night the main charter is being intimidated from the Germans because they make them think that, at any minute they could be thrown in the crematorium. they also know that they will be shot right now if they step out of line with no questions asked. the reason i think that Elie chose these events in the book to show how strict and not caring the Germans actually were. the purpose he wrote this story is to tell everyone what he has gone threw, saw and smelled. a connection i have with this book was watching the movies Schindler's List, and the Boy In The Striped pjs. they both showed how the life the characters in this book are going threw is hell. in Sera there is lots of people trapped in a town and no one will help them or anything. they were bombed all around them and people are fearing for there lives. every one is trying to flee the country. some people want the refugees to leave and some dont want them to go.
ReplyDeleteschindlers list is the only way i can get a clear image was what it was like for them, other wise it is hard to imagen that such things could really happen
DeleteI agree with both of you. I can get a clear image of exactly what this book is like from Schindlers list. But there are also some parts of the book I can really visualize and they aren't good parts either.
DeleteIn I am Malala the extreme hardships they face are the Taliban's restrictions on their lives, mainly women. In her life she faces losing all of her rights and her way of life at risk because of the Taliban's strict limitations on their society. Because she risks it all, the Taliban shoots her but she survives. I think the purpose this book was written was to show that everybody deserves freedom. Something that kind of relates to this is racial segregation in the 1900's but in a less intense way, as women are forced into their homes and almost looked down upon.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your statement on how everyone deserves freedom. I also think that everyone should be created as equal and that is one of the underlining themes of this book. As well as this I also agree with your statement on how this book relates with the civil rights movement in one way or another
DeleteI also could relate her to Martin Luther King Jr. for standing up for themselves. Different topics but still trying to get their rights. Very brave people.
DeleteIshmael in A Long Way Gone has to deal with numerous hardships at a very young age. He loses his family due to a civil war happening in his home country. He spends months and months on the run, hiding from the rebels who are terrorizing the country. he is captured multiple times but is able to escape. He given a choice to either join the countries military at 13 years old, or leave the village that he and his group of boys are staying in, which would result in almost certain death. I think the genocide in Rwanda relates very closely to the conflict in this story. a group of rebels are systematically killing everyone they see, just to gain control in both conflicts.
ReplyDeleteCompletely agree there are many horrific events going on in Africa in this time.
Deletethe rwanda genocide very closely resembles what is going on in this book
DeleteThis is very similar to whats going on in Kite Runner in the middle east.
DeleteThat sounds terrible, Amir never had to face a genocide, but he had a lot of hard ships like the rest of books.
DeleteIn A Thousand Splendid Suns both the Laila And Mariam are dealing with the lost of people that are close to them and are both dealing with the war in one way or another. As they are forced to live with each other they have to find a way to get along or stay out of each others ways. They are both treated badly by Rasheed which is the husband they both are married to which makes Laila come up with the idea to run away. She ask Mariam to run away so she can leave the life that brings pain to her life.
ReplyDeletethat would be horrible to be married to some one like rasheed. i believe that i would try to run away too if it meant event the slightest chance at a better life i would take it.
DeleteLaila and Mariam had to deal with deaths that they necessarily wanted to deal with, but that is making them to be a stronger person. Rasheed is just a mean man!
DeleteHow can you be married to two women at the same time.
DeleteIn their culture they can easily have more than one wife.
DeleteMissing a connection with the world we live in now.
DeleteIn "A Thousand Splendid Suns" Laila is going through a lot. She never knew her brothers because they left to fight in the war when she was too young to remember them. They got killed and her mother is stricken with grief. Later Kabul comes under attack by periodic rockets launched from the mountains by the Mujahideen. Laila and her family are in constant fear of being killed by the rockets and she has even she one of her closest friends blown to pieces on her way home from school. Eventually her mother decides it is time to leave, but when they are packing to go a rocket hits their house and kills both of Laila's parents and wounds her. Later Laila learns that one of her closest friends, Tariq, was also killed by a rocket. I believe that the author has chosen to focus on these tragedies to highlight the effect that warfare can have on civilians and to remind us about the tumultuous state of Afghanistan in the late 20th century. Laila has lost almost everyone who is close to her, her parents and her closest friends. It is hard to imagine what it would be like to be on your own in an active war zone. I would say that this book closely relates to the Syrian refugees who are trying to flee the war there. The book illustrates what those people are trying to get away from.
ReplyDeleteCory it made my heart drop when I read about Laila's parents getting killed and also Tariq dying as well. At least Rasheed and Mariam took Laila in and bringing her back to health.
DeleteIt shows us how lucky we are to not have wars right out our doors and how safe we are and that we should be proud that we dont have to worry about a rocket hitting our house at any given time.
DeleteWhen i read the way laila parents dying then having to find out that Tariq has also died it just was a hard time for her then having to marry a 60 year old man. She was probably stressed.
DeleteNot just stressed, but I'm pretty sure she just gave up in life at that point in time.
DeleteEveryone that she knew and loved was gone, and she didn't see a reason to continue or try in life.
Lailia's parents death made me think about life without my parents and I also could not imagine life without them.
Deleteellie is the main character in night. he is being forced to live through the holocaust. he and the other prisoners are forced to spend all day working, pretty much as slaves, he is constantly in fear of the germans. one wrong move, one wrong word, one wrong look could lead him to be killed or beaten. sometimes he is beaten for being in the wrong place at the wrong time like when idek just started beating him because he was mad about something. much like in schindlers list were the man running the camp would randomly eat or kill a prisoner because he was mad. elie choose to focus on these acts because the are the moments that he will remember for the rest of his life and what helped make him the person he is today. he chose to write this book so people would understand what really happened and so something like what he went through would never happen today.
ReplyDeleteI like your thoughts and connections back to the movie schindlers list. This book is exactly like Schindlers list, expect in the movie it doesn't show the perspective from a inmate which I thought would have made the movie much better.
Deletei agree with G it would have made it alot better with an inmate perspective. it wold have made it more intensed
DeleteI like how you used some of my ideas about Schindler's list. I think it is the very cruel thing to beat people for no reason, and be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
DeleteI agree with everything you said. I hate hate how Elie and his family are slaves pretty much like you said. I don't think its right how they are getting treated.
DeleteIn the book A Thousand Splendid Suns their is a war going on. Laila's brothers died fighting in the war and her mom took a big toll on the situation. Laila met the love of her life when she was just a little girl and started to love him over time. Then the war started to move closer and closer to their town, and then it hit their town. Innocent people were getting killed so Tariq asked Laila if she would marry him, but she said no because she could not leave her family because she's all that her parents have left. Then Giti got killed by a rocket and that was hard for Laila because they were best friends. It can be difficult to lose one of your best friends and I think we can all agree on that. Then when Laila was outside she almost got hit by a rocket so her family decided that they needed to leave. Well bad things happened and a rocket hit their house and her parents were killed and she was the only survivor. She got taken in by Rasheed and Mariam. Laila had to face the hard truth that her parents are dead. Then a guy came and told her that Tariq was in urgent care at a hospital and the nurse said "he fought valiantly". The author wanted to show how tough the Afghanistan people lived and how rough their lives were.
ReplyDeleteLaila must really be freaking out she doesn't really have anywhere to go and no money. I hope that Rasheed and Mariam help her and that they are all able to flee from the fighting.
DeleteI said the same thing, they had a rough time back then
DeleteI agree that laila's life went from ok to complete crap in the blink of an eye. losing her parents was bad enough and then the loss of Tariq broke laila down.
DeleteThe hardships that my main character in my story is dealing with is that the Taliban are trying to take control of her and the people of her communities lives. Some examples of this are that women can not go to school, women are suppose to wear burqas at all times and women must be accompanied by a male relative when they are out of their home. The reason I think Malala is sharing her story with the public is because she wants to show the outsiders what is happening where she is from. One thing i think this can relate to is how African Americans where treated by white people in racial segregation in 1950's and 1960's
ReplyDeleteI think the author wants to give people in western cultures some insight to what life is like in the middle east and how little rights the women have.
DeleteVery similar to what is happening in Sierra Leone except atleast in this story there is no genocide and brutal murdering as far as i know.
DeleteI like that you made the connection to the 1950's and the 1960's. I also think woman are still treated a little bit differently today like an example of different pay.
DeleteThis is similar to my book, Amir had to flee his home and move to america. The middle eastern war was a horrific war.
Deletei think it realy shows how life is over in the middle east
DeleteI also agree to comparing her situation to the 50's and 60's as they are separated from another group, as in malala's case men and women compared to African-Americans and White people.
DeleteYes, Malala has fought to be a voice for woman in her country. To this point everywhere in the world woman are not always treated equally, for example the womens march this weekend.
DeleteThere are 2 main character's in the book that has been through so much, Laila and Mariam, In the first few chapters of A thousand splendid suns Mariams mother committed suicide and her father basically disowned her and forced her to marry a forty-five year old man at the age of seventeen. Laila on the other hand her parents died from a mortaer a rocket shot through the sky and hit her home while her parents were inside and she was out, she survived. He focused on theses things to show us how much they went through during this time period. always looking over their shoulders or taking cover and believing in the evil spirits. Khaled Hosseinii shared this book to the world to give us a peak at what they went through during the war. The emotions they were feeling and seeing their bestfriend dead in front of them from a stray rocket. He wanted to show us just how painful it was to be apart of something like that. A tragedy that stuck the most pain and was similar but without the rockets would be September, 11, 2001. Dead bodies everywhere and this event reminds of a thousand splendid suns because the people who were there faced many problems afterwards.
ReplyDeleteThis book shows us what life can be for us here and that we should all stand together instead of fighting over small problems and be read to fight when the bigger problems come up.
DeleteIt truly shows us how lucky we are in the United States, I couldn't imagine living through this everyday. Really shows how small some of our problems really are.
DeleteIshmael Beah has seen the unspeakable. He has been going from village to village scavenging for his next meal, and his next sip of water. Along the way he spots a family in the river, and decides to go ask them for help, but they avoid him, because they think he's done something wrong and simply do not trust him. Trust becomes a big issue for everyone in the country during this time of sorrow. I compared this book to a few things very similar going on at this time and something a little more fictional. The rebellion Ishmael is dealing with is very similar to what happened in Somalia and Rwanda. This all happened during the early 90's and each one i consider a rebellion, but the only time the United States helped out was the Somalia crisis. From that a movie was made "Black Hawk Down". Another thing I like to thing of when i think of things like this happening in the middle east is Star Wars, because i saw an interview with some locals of one of the three countries and they said that Star Wars is loved by many people over there but the way they see it from their eyes is we the United States are the Galactic Empire and they are the Rebellion. After giving this some thought I realized that that is pretty much on the dot.
ReplyDeleteI agree that trust becomes a big issue
DeleteElie, the main character goes through many hardships up through where I am at in the book. In my opinion the main ones are when he is separated from his mother and sister, when he is randomly beaten by a bipolar, but very vicious guard named Idek and the final one is when he catches Idek making love to a women and he is brought out in front of all the inmates and whipped in the back 25 times. The author chose these hardships because it is based off of his own personal experience in concentration camps and the brutality that was bestowed upon the inmates. He has used great detail in describing what he had to go through. Weisels purpose for sharing all of this is to show the world what World War 2 was like in concentration camps and how brutal they war on the jews. Everybody had their own views on what is was like from probably learning it in History class, but actually learning what is was like from someone that was actually in a concentration camp and from someone that survived all the hardships really shows how it impacted his life. I'll be honest, I can not connect this back to my life because nothing with this level of tragedy and hardship has never happened to me before. I can relate this to another situation in World War 2, when the US put Japense-Americans in another version of concentration camps. The US put them in their because of the whole Pearl Harbor bombing by the Japense. These camps from what I know weren't killing anybody, but it is all the same concept.
ReplyDeleteyeah most of the stuff I read about in this book is what I learned in history class. such as how they worked in the camps, got beaten, and were burned in the crematorium.
DeleteIn the book Mulala, Mulala as well as all woman who live there struggle with having no rights. She stands up for herself and for that she gets shot. Although she survives the thought behind why she gets shot is heart wrenching. Everyone should have the right to stand up for what they believe in. I can connect that with what is happening in todays news. There are people marching for womans rights in Washington DC and different places. Woman in the US have more rights then woman who live where Mulala lives. I think this is only happening because Donald Trump is our president and he has said some rude comments toward woman. Are they true? Maybe, maybe not. As a president he should probably not make those comments, but he does have a right to feel that way. I think this book is based on this topic to educate the readers to not take for granite the rights that are given to you because others have it worse.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your thought about her getting shot is heart wrenching. I also like your connection on women's rights protests in DC but also think how extreme the situations are only puts how bad the situation is for malala being even more limited.
DeleteI agree with you Bryana I think that everyone should have the right to stand up for what they believe in and they should have freedom to speak their mind. I also find it sad that the Taliban treat women the way they do from where Malala is from. I also agree with your point that we shouldn't take the rights that we are given for granted because in other areas of the world people have it worse than we do.
DeleteTrue, Malala is fighting for her rights to education risking her lie and others. It's ironic how she's playing with fire for school, and many whine about it all the time.
DeleteAmber Huberty
ReplyDeleteI think just about everyone in this book is facing some major hardships being in the middle of aphganastan during an ugly war. Amir did move from there to America but faces hard times because he used to be very rich and now he lost his dad and when he starts out in San Francisco is very poor. Amir also faces a lot of guilt and to certain extend PTSD from what happened when he was a kid. He watched his best friend get raped and didnt have a lot of true friends other than that which might cause him to feel that guilt
ReplyDeletethis book has no happyness
DeleteNo connection with the world today?
DeleteMariam, one of two female protagonists, is a quiet, thoughtful child at the start of the book. Born out of wedlock to a rich and married businessman and his former housekeeper, Mariam resents her mother's strict ways and the fact that she only sees her father once a week. Mariam's shame at being illegitimate makes her unable to stand up for herself.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't really answer the question or give a connection to what you have read?
DeleteIn the book "A Long Way Gone" Ishmael Beah is a young boy that is running from a rebel army. He is going to different villages that dont trust them while he is just trying to survive. I think the main thing the Arthur is focusing on is the war and how it is destroying villages and is killing people for no reason. It shows that mass murders or war does to people that are living during. Today in the United States people are losing there parents who serve in the army to war in other countries.
ReplyDeleteThis is kinda similar to my book cause in the book "Night" Elie and his family are just trying to survive the concentration camp and get reunited with there family.
DeleteThis connects to a Thousand Spledid Suns do to the warefare aspect, but the difference is from what I'm getting here is that your main character is part of the army while mine is in the middle of it.
DeleteI agree with how the Arthur is focusing on the war and how it destorys family's and kills people for no reason and how it shows how horribale it is.
DeleteIn the book "Night" Elie the main character and his family are going through a lot of heartbreaking emotional things. First, Elie and his family get taken away from there hometown and brought to a concentration camp. Second, Elie gets split up from his mother and sister. Third, Elie and his family get striped naked and didn't get there clothes back for awhile. They get very mistreated. I feel like Elie the author also the main character made these events very traumatizing because they are taking away innocent peoples lives and making them miserable and they want us to realize what they do to the Jews. They shouldn't be doing that. I feel like Elie focused on these atrocities because he wanted us to know how they treated the Jews and how they lived there lives. His purpose for sharing this story with the world in this book is to show people how they were treated and how they had to live. Nothing in the real world right now is as bad as this book and what they are going through. I don't know what to compare it too because its so scary and nothing happens like that today.
ReplyDeleteThat is true nothing like that happens in the world anymore because of how horrifying and cruel it is.
DeleteI feel bad for Elie and his family. I'm very grateful we don't have these type of issues today.
DeleteI agree. I am glad to we don't have these issues today I don't know if I would be able to handle living through that.
DeleteUnfortunately, Amber, there are similar situations happening in the world today. Look at the Syrians who are being killed and forced to flee their homes, all due to war.
DeleteIn my book Night the main character has been on a very long train ride to consecrations camp with his father and they go through a lot of hard times on the train and at the concentration camp. When they were on the train there was this crazy women on the train that was screaming that there was a big fire and chimney that she saw but really it was just dark outside. And when they were at the camp they had to take all there cloths off and take showers and run in the cold from place to place and the almost had to jump in the pit but they stopped them and sent them to different place.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I would be able to live through this. It's sad.
DeleteBut why did Elie share his story? And what can you connect in today's world that would be similar to this situation?
DeleteI think a great hardship that these characters face in A Thousand Splendid Suns is warfare. The book shows how brutal war can be on everyone, not only the soldiers, but the bystanders too. They constantly have to be looking out for rockets and things along those lines. Liala's brothers were both killed fighting in the war and her closest friend was even killed on her way home from school. It's things like this that make us really appreciate what we have here and it shows how lucky we truly are. Then to top that off Tariq then dies from a rocket as well. Really everyone that was close to her is dying off which is really tragic to think about. I can't even relate to the brutality of this ordeal. It makes you think about the refuges and what they go through on an everyday basis.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. No one should have to live through constant fear of dying every day. I can only wonder how scared they are, I get scared when the light go out.
DeleteI cannot even relate to war and the tragic things that have happened in this book. Good post!
DeleteIn "A Thousand Splendid Suns" both Mariam go through alot. Mariam gets married at a very young age even when she didnt want to and she also lost her Mother so the only person she really had was her father but her father also agreed to getting her married and later ended up hating her father too. She didnt like Rasheed and later became pregnant only to find out she had a miscarriage. I think the character goes through a lot of hardships in her life.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't enjoy being married to Rasheed like Mariam in this book.
DeleteDoesn't completely answer the blog question. Lacks a connection and author's purpose.
DeleteThe importance of the book I think is mainly about the life in another country. The war is going on. There have been deaths for both Laila and Mariam to deal with. Laila's parents & brothers are killed. Her best friend Giti, is also killed by a rocket. I see that it's harder to live over in Afghanistan compared to the United States. I feel that not only is the author trying to show how hard it is. They are trying to show you what it's like in detail to be in another country. What I see is that it's living through their lives.
ReplyDeleteYeah it must suck losing someone so close to you over something terrifying like that. Im excited to see how they survive
DeleteIn the novel "Night" the main character Elie goes through many hardships. The first hardship he has to go through is getting taken out of his home and sent to a concentration camp. The second hardship he has to face is being separated from his sister and mother. I don't think I could ever do that because they will never know if something bad happens to their mom. Elie and his father face some hard times together such as almost being taken to the crematorium and having their belongings taken away from them. I believe the author focuses on these topics because he wants to set an example by showing what happend to people back in the day. He wants people to know how mistreated people were. The holocaust connects to this story because during that time period people had to hide otherwise they would be taken away. The world today is a completely different place because these things don't happen but there are bad things that happen sometimes.
ReplyDeleteI agree being taken away like that and living through the things he did would have been hard.
DeleteConnection could be made with Syria in modern time.
Deletein the kite runner Amir faces a lot of hardships he lives with his friend getting raped because of him, he grew up without a mother his father died and his father in law is forcing him to do everything the traditional afghan way and he dosent like being forced to live like that and he and his wife want to run away and live the way they want
ReplyDeleteLacks a connection with other events, and you avoided the question about author's purpose.
DeleteThere are two main characters in A Thousand Splendid Suns each one of them has their own problems, but they are common problems. I think that is why Khaled Hosseini chose these problems, he wants to show the readers what life is like in Afghanistan.
ReplyDeleteIt is very realistic and shows exactly what people have gone through in the past thirty or so years. they deal with deaths of loved ones, miscarriages, abusive marriages, and gender differences.
In the book "night" the main character faces many hardships. First he is taken away from his home and put in a concentration camp and for him being a young boy that can be very hard for him and then getting there and being separated from his family can be hard, I know if I was taken away from my home and separated from my family at a young age I don't know what I would do and being in the position he was in of not knowing if he would make it out of that camp alive. I can honestly say that I don't know what's running through his mind or be able to say that I know how he feels or anything like that but I can sure imagine what it was like and how horrible it was for him.
ReplyDeleteSo why did Elie write this story? What was his purpose?
DeleteIn I am Malala they live in war, what more major hardship can there be. Everyone lives with fear. They trust no one. Every little sound startles them, they immediately think is a bomb. While they go to school, they have helicopters flying over their roofs, they see death everyday, and the only thing that takes the mind away from the tragedy they are going through is school. Which is getting banned for girls. For Malala, school is everything she has and without it only sadness, and anger exits in her heart. Malala started speaking up very young and continues to have a voice through this book. She wants to eradicate injustices, and let the world know how lucky the ones who are free to education are. She had to fight and risk her life for an education while others whine about it. Many girls have been beaten, killed, and humiliated by the Taliban. The girl that beaten, and recorded with spectator around the scene not doing anything is a sign how insane people can be. War has happened for as long this world has existed until this day. It's sad, but war keeps reaperring itself only with a different face.
ReplyDeleteLaila is a little girl who lives in Kabul with her parents. She also has two brothers but she doesn't know them very well because they went to serve the country at a young age and they were later killed in battle. The whole family and many others were devastated with the loss of Laila's two brothers. Later on Kabul gets in the middle of a civil war and a rocket strikes Laila's house killing both of her parents. thankfully though she survived. Just as you think it cant get any worse, Laila then learns her best friend and love of her life Tariq was also killed by a rocket. I think the author wants us to realize how bad it actually can be for a lot of people in the middle east as compared to America. Most of us don't realize how lucky we are that we get to live in the best country on earth and our constantly protected from outside threats so that we don't have to worry about losing loved ones right here at home. Obviously there has been a few instances where we were not protected such as 9/11 but the bottom line is we are real lucky and fortunate to be able to live our daily lives without fear. This part of the book has definitely been a huge wake up call for me.
ReplyDeleteThe main character, Ishmael, in 'A Long Way Gone' is facing the rebels which are an army of people going through villages and killing all of the innocent people in them. I think the author is trying to focus on the different problems going on around us that we are grateful enough and we don't have to deal anything like this on an everyday basis. I don't really think we have anything this horrible to connect to that has happened recently. However, on 9/11 people attacked many innocent people in the towers. I also think that Rwanda can relate to the horrible events happening in this book.
ReplyDeleteIn the book 'A Long Way Gone' the main character is Ishmael who is going through very tough and challenging phases throughout this book. Some of the things he goes throguh are stealing food for little boys because of how hungry he is and has no other choic, running away from the rebels trying not to get killed, leaving his family behind, exspeicsly his brother junior because they lost eachother while running from the rebels, surviving by himself and he can't trust nobody. I think the main thing the Arthur is trying to focus on is how the war tears family's and homes apart for no reason and how you can't trust anybody. It connects to today's life because there are people who still serve in the army.
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