“The Girl who escaped Isis: This is my story,” is a January 21, 2016 autobiography written by Farida Khalaf with Andrea C. Hoffmann about Farida Khalaf’s self-experiences during the war of Isis. Farida is a young Yazidi woman who is taken from her home as well as the rest of her family in the beginning of the book. The town that Khalaf is from has Peshmerga soldiers. These men are used to protect borders of connecting countries and used to keep armies like Isis out. The Peshmerga are not strong enough to keep Isis out and Khalaf’s family and the other Yazidi families are forced to give up all weapons and personal belongings to Isis soldiers. Isis uses the woman and girl children as a form of their own “fun.” Their type of fun is raping the …show more content…
Isis ripped Khalaf and her family from their home as many of other Yazidis. They were forced to be kept separate from their families. The reason that Isis is so disastrous is because of how they treated Yazidis and many others. In the book “The Girl who escaped Isis: This is my story,” Isis demonstrates how disastrous they can be through what they did to families, women, children, and men. Isis demonstrates this by showing the reader that they are fierce and will do anything to anyone who gets in their way. Isis demonstrates this quality in Khalaf’s memoir by raping women and selling them as sex slaves. In Khalaf’s memoir she states, “Sold. It took me a while to realize what had just happened: I’d been traded like an animal at the livestock market.” This line in the passage represents just how disastrous Isis can be. In Yazidi religion, if a woman is touched before marriage then she is unclean and not pure. This shows that Isis is disastrous because they do not care about how they are treating these women. This sentence in the book describes to the reader what Isis has done to the many of the women they have captured. These women and girls were forced into a market of sex trafficking and were on their way to be taken advantage of. This line in the passage is a very important one because it shows what Isis has done and …show more content…
They have come into their lives and turned it upside down all because of how they can be the “best militant group.” Isis would pick these kinds of countries because they know that there military is not that strong and they would be able to defeat them. For example, America has a stronger militant group than Isis and Isis will probably try to test us to see if they can succeed with America as well. They are disastrous because of what they think they can accomplish. In the book Khalaf states, “In my cell I grew nervous. Would Zeyad want to pleasure himself him-self with a woman again after the battle? I couldn’t for the life of me imagine that in my current state I could appear attractive to him. I was filthy, badly injured, and barely able to move. But I wasn’t able to put up a fight, either.” Khalf is stating in this paragraph how disastrous Isis is. This demonstrates why Isis is disastrous because of how they treat women and how they use them as sex objects. This line is important because it shows the reader how abusive and dangerous Isis soldiers are. They are also disastrous because degrading women is not even considered in their minds. Isis soldiers take away their virginity and they don’t respect a woman’s honor to her family and most importantly,
Rasheed loves his son and buys him everything he needs which didn’t happen for Aziza so Mariam instead had to sew clothes for her when she was born. The women in Afghanistan are trapped because they can’t travel anywhere without a man. Laila and Mariam make plans to escape the country and Rasheed but as soon as they get to the train station they are found without a man and are put under immediate investigation. The officer finds out that they aren’t with a man and proceeds to send them home where he knows they will receive a grave punishment because, “there is no saying what Rasheed will do to [them],”(Hosseini 226). Cheryl Reed acknowledges this trap that the women are in when she says, “ Thirty years of war have succeeded in eliminating all rights for women, forcing them out of jobs and into burqas, closing schools for girls and making them dependent on the mercy of men for survival,” (Reed 2007). The women are treated as second-class citizens not only in everyday society but also by the justice system. During Mariam’s trail some insight can be gathered on how women are viewed in the society when the judge says, “God has made us definitely, you women and us
Shyima Hall is an Egyptian woman who was a victim of human trafficking. She was sold as a slave when she was only eight years old. She now lives (legally) in the United States and has written a book about her story. Shyima Hall uses two different rhetorical devices in Hidden Girl to achieve her goal of spreading awareness of child slavery in today’s world.
In the novel The Other Side of the Sky by Farah Ahmedi, Farah is in second grade when she steps on a landmine, and must be taken to Germany for medical treatment. Nearly 2 years later, at age 9 she returns home, with one prosthetic leg, and her other with permanent damage. Not too long after she returns home, her house is bombed leaving a majority of her family dead. Alone and scared, Farah and her mother try to find a way to America for a better and safer life. Months later, they are finally able to enter America legally and start over. Once they arrive, they begin to realize they are both scared to be in a new place that is so different from their homeland. Both Farah and her mother struggle to fit into this new world, as time goes, while
For the first time, Kayla Mueller’s fellow captives spoke publicly about their time in ISIS captivity for “The Girl Left Behind” of ABC News. They shared how the 25-year-old humanitarian aid worker’s courage and selflessness inspired them.
When the queen saw how nice she treated the servants, she invited Isis into her home to care for her baby (Leeming 162). The way she treated the servants can be seen as a test. After seeing her kindness, she becomes trusted by the queen and the locals. While caring for the baby, Isis uses her abilities to burn its mortal parts. The queen, thinking her baby was on fire, was frightened.
This attack on both people will forever have an impact on their lives. Leaving past scars forever in their thoughts. When Mariatu and Ishmael became victims the rebels had very different roles in their minds for these two. With Mariatu being a female and Ishmael being a male, it was the reason to put these two through what they have been through. Even though they were both young victims, they both came to do different tasks.
The story is told from the point of view of Latifa, a girl oppressed by the Taliban. When the Taliban storm her home city of Kabul in Afghanistan, Latifa and her family (particularly her female relatives and family) become
The story is full of conflict between Isis and her adversary Grandma Potts. Grandma represents tradition, instilling her principles at every turn, “[b]eing the only girl in the family, of course she must wash the dishes” (Hurston 11). Grandma believes that the girl’s place is at home, “within the community because [she] will never be appreciated by the dominant culture” (Williams 129). “You’se too ‘oomanish jumpin’ up in everybody’s face that pass” (Hurston 9). Isis is an oppressed female in the every sense of the word. She is forced to do chores while her male siblings are excused. She takes beatings for things while her brothers get away unharmed. Isis rebels for her own sense of power, goofing off, doing cart wheels, and day dreaming as soon as Grandma Potts has her back turned.
Isis commits horrible acts of violence and gore and then to make it worse, they video tape it and send it to various countries demanding a slew of ransoms. They work on people’s sense of fear to accomplish their end goal. Gilgamesh was known for killing and raping trying to gain immortality after he experienced his best friend’s death, Enkidu.
They loosed a dog on him that went for his genitals.” Khalifeh deftly includes this grotesque imagery to open our eyes to the common brutality they now endure in Palestine under the Israeli’s and make us aware of the barbarity of the situation. It evokes not only a sense of poignancy in us, but outrage as well because his human decency has been violated with such nonchalance. As the audience, we grow to sympathize with the conquered Palestinians and support Usama in his quest to reclaim freedom for Palestine.
The author’s perspective of “Losing in battle, ISIS gains by attacking the gray zone’ of the west”, Kari Vick, has also used various opinions and facts that he has exposed to the reader as he explains what the “gray zone” is to the readers. The author was very thorough with information as he explained the situation and other events that have occurred with ISIS such as proving how ISIS sees the world in black and white and how they abhor the middle-ground where day life lives. Kari also explained the life of a French journalist when he was a hostage for ten whole years, wrote also when Germany opened its own doors to the Syrian refugees, the jihadist was flummoxed with their response recorded on a videotape.
Imagine as a twelve-year-old what life is like, all the fun to have and the carelessness with little to no responsibilities. Now imagine, being twelve and being manipulated into fighting wars that can never truly be escaped. Ishmael Beah in A Long Way Gone is one of these kids. He is manipulated into hating the Rebels by the Sierra Leone army and brainwashed to kill all of them. A man named Umar Haque is doing a similar thing to kids, in which he is radicalizing them to commit terrorist attacks for ISIS. Beah’s portrayal of how he is manipulated into war by the Lieutenant helps shed light on what the school children, Umar Haque attempts to radicalize, are enduring because both Beah and the schoolboys are manipulated into becoming child soldiers.
These children have been forced to see things no child should have to. In a magazine, the author informs us, “Girls are often pressed into duty as cooks or messengers. Many are subjected to sexual abuse, including rape (Gettleman 6).” Child soldiers should not be punished, because most of them were forced against their own will. In a summative essay on child soldiers, the author states, “... and over ten million children have been diagnosed with a psychological trauma (“Child Soldiers -- Summative Essay”).” This is over the last ten years, which means that one million are diagnosed every year. In an article, the author met doctors who worked with the traumatized patients. “One doctor described treating a boy between ten and twelve years old whose job it was to whip prisoners held in an ISIS detention facility, according to the adult fighter who brought him (Ashawi).” No child should have to witness anything like that, much less be a part of it. Mr. Beah again explains, “...people think as healing from this kind of thing as forgetting, I will never be able to forget anything that happened to me…(Stroumboulopoulos). ” Most people do not realize from this kind of trauma, the patients do not usually fully
In both Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and Marjane Satrapi’s autobiographical Persepolis, escape is a recurring theme. Both Joe Kavalier in Chabon’s novel and Marjane in her own autobiography flee their countries in hope of finding a safer life and better opportunities away from the wars that plague their home. What both characters learn after leaving is that their new homes and lives are not completely without fear, disappointment, sadness, and anxiety. While their individual identities, Joe a European Jew and Marjane an Iranian Muslim, make their experiences distinct, they both share the same pain of living in a country where they are considered outsiders while never knowing the safety of their family or when they
Zeinat, a 16 year old Yazidi woman, was captured by ISIS and taken into slavery. She was handpicked to “work” for the boss Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. She was held at the same place that American hostage Kayla Mueller was after she was taken in 2013. According the article, Zienat described a video where, “There was a journalist, an American journalist, and there was a man dressed all in black. He killed the journalist. He beheaded them.” She explained that Al-Baghdadi gave them to choices after watching the video of, “Convert to Islam. Or die like this.” Once, the girls were able to escape and get to a nearby house where the woman of the house said she would help, but called Al-Baghdadi instead, resulting in them being beat with everything from a