Imagine not having a safe spot. A place where you don't feel protected. A place where you're not frightened. A place where you're not scared of dying if you don't leave immediately. In Refugee by Alan Gratz three characters are refugees in different times, going through the same experience of fleeing the life they knew. The 1930’s: Josef, a Jewish boy living through the Holocaust, must flee Germany on a ship headed to Cuba. 1994: Isabel, a Cuban girl living through riots and protests, flees Cuba on a makeshift boat after the Soviet Union collapsed. 2015: Mahmoud, a Syrian boy living through the Syrian Civil War, must leave Syria with his family after his home is bombed. All three of these realistic characters are experiencing the same journey, …show more content…
My goal that hour was to find a book I could read for pleasure and actually like. Disclaimer: I usually don't find books I like. As a reader, I’m very interested in anything that involves the world and culture in some way. As I was looking I remembered we saw a trailer for a book, Refugee, and it was quite intriguing. So, I found it, and picked up the book and brought it to the register, because it was sold out they had to order me a new one. The book itself isn't very long, but it took me a while to read. I’m a very slow reader and sometimes have to re-read pages because I forget. Anyway, once I started reading I loved it. It made me interested in learning about different struggles countries were and are facing, but another reason is that I could relate to this book a lot. My parents are from Syria, and my family that didn't move to Lebanon or America are currently still living in Syria. Although nothing has happened to them (thank God), I still am worried about them and their safety. So, reading this book really touched my heart in a way where I can relate somehow. But, I hope I will never have to experience what refugees have and even caring for them, I don't know half of what they went …show more content…
You don't find this type of historical book interesting very often, but this one was. Everyone who I know has read or is currently reading it agrees. Learning and discovering different perspectives and stories that are sad but exciting are what made me continue reading this book. I never got bored of the book. There was never a dull moment. Somewhere in a span of 2 pages, there would be a problem, or something bad would happen. It kind of felt like a mystery to me. I would try and think, with all the things that have happened are they going to make it to their destination. Are they going to get to Florida, Greece, or Cuba? Also, now knowing in detail what people in the 1900’s and now are facing makes me feel educated in a way, which I like. Reading what sacrifices these characters and their families had to do to survive really moved me in a way a book hasn't done to
Though they begin as scared kids and wish to be invisible, the characters in “Refugee” must become more mature to protect their families by Stepping up when times are hard and difficult to accomplish what they needed to accomplish
Refugee is about a boy named Mahmoud and his family. Refugee is written by Alan Gratz and begins in the Middle East and ends in Europe. The trouble starts when their house in Aleppo, Syria is destroyed by a missile, and they are forced to find a home elsewhere. They decide to make the treacherous journey to Germany. On their way they have to make life and death decisions and have to cross the Mediterranean Sea. Most of the countries welcome Mahmoud and his family, but on their way through Hungary, they were beaten and harmed by tear gas. This book has many turns in it. For example, while trying
America is the land of freedom and opportunity. It is a place where anyone can take refuge from harm and pursue their own dreams. However, the novel, The Refugees, by Viet Thanh Nguyen, portrays another perspective of being a refugee in the United States. The retelling of him becoming accustomed to America practices indicated that he faced an identity crisis. Specifically, he faces a contentious dilemma concerning how he would strike a balance between seeing himself as a person of Vietnamese heredity or of his American lifestyle. He amplifies the significance of this issue through the inquiry of certain practices of the community, his mixed views about fighting Communism, and his interactions with his family.
The Happiest Refugee written in 2011, is an award winning autobiography portraying ones will to survive amongst extreme hardships. Above all, the story displays resilience and optimism at their finest, despite the setbacks and adversities faced by Anh and his family. Readers as a result are invited to empathise with the hardships confronted by refugees, in turn enlightening them to be grateful for the many pleasures
No one is prepared for war and the most challenging decisions you will have to make to survive. Although each character in Refugee, by Alan Gratz, is from a different time and place, they each share similar hardships and challenges in their experiences, such as they were all forced from their homes, they all lose a family member, and their problems begin in their own country.
Do you know what Refugees are what they do how they live and how they survive. Refugees are people that have to leave there home all because of war, they have to leave and find new ones far away. Before war happened in Vietnam Ha was different she was sneaky because when she went to get groceries she would by fried dough for herself, and she was mean because when she would hide her brothers sandals when she got mad at them. The title of the book makes you wonder a little by the words inside out and back again, the author Thanhha Lai had a good idea for making this book for a history lesson. Refugees like Ha and her family turn back again when they find better home like Ha she stared understanding more.
The U.S. should accept refugees who have background checks because they’re trying to flee from extreme violence, we don’t want history to repeat itself, and they want to start over, they’re not committing terror attacks.
Should america let refugees in the us. I think that refugees should not be allowed in the usa and they should be kicked out of the us because nearly 44% of america are non english speakers that used to be18% so non english speakers are slowly over powering us americans and they will soon kick us out of our country we should kick them out and keep them out for america's sake.
Being a refugee could be an awful thing. At that moment in time it could be a bad thing but if you look on the brighter side of things, it could grow into something amazing. There are so many good things that could come out of being a refugee as well as bad.
More than half the refugees around the globe are under the age of 18, even though children make up 31 percent of the world’s population. Refugees are people who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disasters. The stories that will be covered in this essay are called “The Teacher Who Changed My Life,” by Nicholas Gage and the second novel is “Letter to a Young Refugee from Another,” by Andrew Lam. These stories have many differences between each other but they both left their country to America. What if you had to flee your country?
Millions of lives threatened. Millions of lives in danger. Millions of lives at risk. The United States is in the process of turning away those refugees who want to change their lives for the better. I believe America has the power to help those who are struggling by allowing them in and helping them start their lives all over from scratch. America should change their immigration laws in order to allow them in.
“To be called a refugee is the opposite of an insult; it is a badge of strength, courage, and victory.” This saying from the Tennessee Office for Refugees addresses the ongoing matter of refugees that has been growing continuously for decades, and is currently as serious as ever. The article Ten Borders exposes the many hardships refugees have to face everyday through the story of a young law student named Ghaith. Juggling between school and two part-time jobs, Ghaith soon finds his life in the war-torn country of Syria unbearable. As a result, through the help of his own brother and some smugglers he got in contact with through social media, Ghaith was ready to flee Syria and hoped to find a new life away from violence in Europe. However,
Refugees when someone has left their country because of a conflict in their country or they are forced to leave because of constant wars, starvation and group mistreated. Immigration is when you leave your country and go to a different one and live there because of rough conditions like corrupt leader or many wars that won't stop or have been going on for a long time. Refugees on the other hand have to flee to camps and can't go to another county because it's just as corrupt or the war has been there or will soon be arriving at that destination. When immigrants arrive in a country they steal people's jobs that are easy and not as complicated because also want to make a living of their own but can't because they are illegal in the country.Refugees
There are many non-governmental organizations that fight to protect human rights such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Global Rights. One you may not have heard of is Refugees International. According to their website (refugeesinternational.org), Refugees International focuses on bringing aid to displaced citizens and helps to bring attention to the problems that have caused the displacement. Refugees International was originally formed in 1979 for the purpose of assisting Indochinese refugee's. Now they assist refugees from all over the world by looking out for their best interest and ensuring their safety. They do this by having workers in the field observe the treatment and care of refugees who have been displaced for various reasons including war and conflict. They do not take any government funding, solely depending on donations (Refugees International, n.d.).
I remember the day the U.N. Refugee Agency declared my family refugees and resettled us to make the United States of America our new home.