Jarrah Hejazi worked hard for over twenty years. First in the Marines defending his country and then running his own security teams. He’d done well, but forgot about life. H goes to Stockton, California to visit his friends at Safe Haven where he meets Grace McKay and a young boy named Jonah. Haven is a place where street kids can get help and feel safe. Little does Hejazi know that within a couple of months his life will change one-hundred and ten percent. Grace McKay, an ex-marine, works at Haven in security. She’d heard the owners talk about their friend Hejazi and when she meets him, there’s more she wants to know. Hejazi and Grace give in to their attraction and work together to find the brother of young Jonah. The brother was taken by
A Long Way Gone: memoirs of a boy soldier by Ishmael Beah.This book is nothing more then about a destiny, a journey that we don’t see everyday, readers could call Ishmael's life a miracle.this book was published in 2007, New York by Sarah Crichton Books.
In one particularly disturbing scene, Ishmael and the other child soldiers come across a village that they have considerable trouble taking from the enemy. They were running low on ammunition, so instead of “wasting the bullets” on those men, they decided to hold them at gunpoint and force them to dig their own graves. The men dug for a long time, getting more and more tired and fearful, and once the graves were dug, the soldiers shot the men in the feet so they would fall back into the graves, and began to shovel dirt onto them. Ishmael recalls that he did not feel guilty when he could hear them struggling and clawing against the ground on top of them, and then go still. Ishmael Beah included this scene to not only provide a clear image of
The book I read was called “A Long Way Gone” by Ishmael Beah. It was a non-fiction book. “A Long Way Gone” is about Ishmael Beah, who is 12 years old when he's villages gets attacked and he has to go to village to village finally getting to one were he thinks is safe. But when news about the village needed soldiers Ishmael has to become one to get resources to survive. When he is excused from war he goes to rehabilitation in a city called freecity. Once he gets rehabilitated he goes to new york to speak about the experiences he had with the war. He then comes home and a couple of days later something bad happens, and he has to try to get out of the city. The conflict in the story was how Ishmael was running from the rebels that were raiding
War has scared people all over the world, including the people outside it, and has made changed people to do things they did not know they were capable of. A Long Way Gone is a book that features Ishmael Beah who is both the author and the narrator in this novel. Beah was born in 1980 and was only around 11 years old when a civil war in Sierra Leone broke out in 1991. The civil war had many problems that took place, but this novel aims its focus on the fact that both sides of the war used child soldiers and he was one of the victims to become one. Beah had become a child soldier when all his friends started to die off and were forced to become a soldier and survive the war he had desperately tried to escape from. Ishmael Beah can be seen
Chraibi’s book Muhammad: A Novel is a fantastic, powerful read because it is just that: a novel. It is a fictional story, but written by an author who had an unusual, mystical calling himself to write the book. By using original aspects from the traditional biographies of Muhammad and then adding his own personal, esoteric twist on these characteristics, Chraibi creates a work of literature that is truly compelling and shows Muhammad’s journey to becoming a prophet in a mystical light. Two central distinctions, namely Muhammad’s relations with Khadija and Bahira, add the spice in this novel that really help the reader grasp what is mystical about both this literature and most importantly, Muhammad himself.
Their lives twisted inside out when they fled their home and became refugees. The entire family boarded a U.S Navy ship and headed towards hope because they were forced to flee their home. They were headed to the United States of America because someone told them it has more opportunity for her children. This journey will change Ha’s personality because of all the challenges they faced
her younger brother Jonas, and her head strong mother are separated from their father and deported to
Nyazha, scarred by the loss of her father to gang violence, recognizes the danger lurking in Solomon's world, a danger she refuses to let consume their love. As their relationship blossoms, so too does the shadow of Solomon's past. Deeply entrenched in the city's gang culture, Solomon finds himself torn between two worlds: the promise of a better life with Nyazha and the allure of the streets that have shaped his existence. Their love is tested in the crucible of conflict, a heated argument resulting in Solomon walking out on Nyazha.
Mohammad Nowrouz is 78 years old. He has a passport and he will travel to the U.S. for the trial.
In the Swallows of Kabul, a life of suffering is happening because of many Taliban rules that has shaped many of the characters in this novel. “Stop filling your head with false ideas and unanswerable questions and useless reasoning. Even if you find an answer to every question today, you still won’t be safe from whatever unknowable event may take place tomorrow. The learned man knew many things, but he was ignorant about the essential thing” (Khadra 117-118). Qassim Abdul Jabbar told Atiq that he resembles basically a learned man who believe in his own thoughts whether or not it is true or false. This short passage was very important to interpret because the learned man can have different meanings. The first meaning behind a learned man is someone who knows all the information, but never understands his logic.
In Naguib Mahfouz’s “The Journey of Ibn Fattouma” Qindil physically veers off from the journey at times, yet he never mentally leaves the path to Gebel. Throughout his journey, every decision Qindil makes and all the consequences that are given in response provide Qindil with a new perspective. Furthermore, perspective is the key element that is going to allow Qindil to find a solution for the Land of Islam. Every relationship, affair, and engagement in other religions and cities will give Qindil insight of what other cultures view to be true. Moreover, to find a solution Qindil must open his comfort zone to trying new traditions and activities that will be presented to him as he travels on through his journey. On his extraneous journey, Qindil
The author, Joseph Joffo, wrote this book about his story with his brother and how they survived and escaped from the Gestapo. This graphic novel tells us a true story about two Jewish brothers Maurice and Joseph during the World War 2. Joseph and Maurice were treated differently in school as they forced to wear yellow stars just because they are Jewish. Every Jewish in Pairs must wear these yellow stars, but Jo heated that and tried to hide it. Unfortunately, they got injured because of a fight in their school. So their father realized that it is not safe for them in France. Their parents decided to send them to Vichy France, to stay with their older brothers. Joseph and his brother had a difficult journey, they travelled across France to
For this assignment, we were required to read Kaffir Boy by Mark Mathabane. This book goes in depth about an African boy’s coming of age. It goes over a lot of what Mark has gone through and how he overcomes the cruel behavior of the apartheid system. He also describes the racism and stereotypes the black children dealt with. From this book out of the three parts, I decided to go over part two of the book, “Passport to Knowledge.” I picked this section because a few of the aspect in here interested me more such as the allure and harsh realities of gangs, classroom regulations, and parents disagreeing over the worth of formal education. By embracing education, he is able to rise out of despair and destitution and make something of himself.
After a few setbacks, Colton has a miraculous recovery. The family is celebrating his life as they drive to visit relatives a few months after his recovery. He begins to make some strange statements, and the family eventually realizes that the boy had been given a glimpse of heaven while he was in surgery. At first the parents can 't believe it, but as time passes, he continued telling them things about Jesus, God, and heaven that he couldn 't possibly have known at his young age. He describes the heavenly thrones, the triune God, and angels. Colton says he met a sister he never knew he had. It
The lives of Muhammad by Kecia Ali is a modern book that describes the way the life of the prophet has been told by past authors. It looks at the manner in which he lived his life and some of the decisions that he made. However, many other authors who have written about the life of Prophet Muhammad but Kecia Ali bring out the unspoken perspective that many people hardly notice. She shies away from describing the truth spoken by anti-Muslims and Muslims alike. On the contrary, she analyses both factions of the narrations and tells the story of Muhammad in a new light.