Narrative On The Refugues Analysis

In the novel “A long walk to water” by Linda Sue Park, Salva, a young man that lived in South Sudan throughout his childhood to his young-adult years, had faced many difficult challenges the young age of eleven. Salva had to flee from home because of Sudan’s civil war. He soon experienced a horrifying and dreadful life, his family gone, no resources in his group, he watched people die, walked for months, and lead twelve hundred boys to a refugee camp in Kenya. Salva survived this terrible life with the help of three factors, perseverance, luck, and relationships with others. Without any of these factors, Salva might not have been able to survive or possibly become the leader he is today.

‘The Happiest Refugee’ discusses various concepts including the effects of war, the trauma that refugees experience, their desire to contribute to society and our negative attitudes towards them. After the war, South Vietnamese soldiers and their families were captured by the North Vietnamese Communists and held in labour camps. Some of these prisoners were eventually released (after 1976), however, they had no right to education, employment or government supplied food rations. If Ahn had not left this oppressive environment, he would have grown up in extreme poverty and would be a very different person due to the trauma that

Many authors write fictional novels about historical events. A common topic written about is the racial integration between African Americans and whites during the 1950’s. Although the short story “Recitatif” explicate many different themes, the central topic of Morrison’s writing is about racism. Throughout the story, the author expresses examples of hatred between black and white races at the shelter, the different encounters they have, and the remarks to Maggie’s race in conversations between Twyla and Roberta.

The book begins by discussing the historical context of the war and time period in which refugees emerge into the scene. According to Tang, “the United States publicly positioned itself as the champion of displaced Cambodians, passing the 1980 Refugee Act and casting it as a global freedom project and Cambodian refugees as needing rescue by U.S. liberalism” (15). Throughout the book, Tang discusses how the United States contributes to the constant state of captivity that refugees experience from the minute they leave home to the moment they arrive in America. The United States’ participation in the Vietnam War gave rise to Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge; these conditions caused a lot of unrest and forced many people like Ra to flee or remain trapped in captivity under the Khmer Rouge. The United States’ perspective on their actions during the war do not acknowledge their contributions to the national refugee crisis. Refugees are viewed as a solution to the war in the American perspective; thus, Eric Tang introduces the concept of refugee exceptionalism: “the ideologies and discursive practices that figure refugees as necessarily in the hyperghetto but never of it” (14). Tang effectively outlines the subsequent chapters where they each address a certain way in which captivity is maintained for Ra and other refugees. In Chapter 3 that mentions the Welfare Resistance, Ra is shown to be

The concentration camp forced him to learn to think about himself “I had watched it all happening without moving I kept silent… that was what life in a concentration camp has made of me” (Wiesel 54). He became self-centered and determined to survive. He survived because he had to for his father, but it was only after his father died that he truly lived. He only thought of food and surviving “I spent my day in total idleness… I no longer thought of my father, or my mother” (Wiesel 113). When people go through any trauma they change, life changes people for either the better or for the

Elie Wiesel experienced several horrors throughout the Holocaust. As a boy, he lost his family and his faith in his own religion because of the mass slaughter of six million Jews along with several different races and religions. Elie describes scenes that a fifteen year old child should never have to see such as frantic families lined up for a death in fire, bodies crushed all over as people ran them over, and babies being thrown into pits of fire.

The two authors went through terribles experiences in the camps they were sent to and the time they spent there and what they underwent changed and impacted

After crossing the Gilo River and finally reaching other refugee camps in Kenya at age twenty-two, Salva is presented an opportunity. Three thousand Lost Boys are to be chosen to go to America, and Salva was fortunately one of them. He was chosen to got to Rochester, New York. Along the way he had to learn to adapt to a completely new world and culture. Salva used everything he had learned throughout his journey during the war, the emotional factors that all encouraged him to never give up, and made a difference.

Elie Wiesel was a normal, young kid who lived in Hungry. The only problem was that he was Jewish and the Nazi’s were coming. Elie and his family were together in a ghetto inside their hometown. Elie and his family thought that this would be the worst of their problems, but it wasn’t. Elie and his family survived the ghetto. After Elie and his family spent time in the ghetto they got news that they would be heading somewhere else. They got news that they were going, no one knew where but they would soon find out it wasn’t like the ghetto. They soon arrived in a camp called Birkenau, this was used as a stopping point and most of the people there would go to Auschwitz. On the first day Elie and his father were together and his mom and sister were on another. This was the last time Elie saw his mom and sister. Elie and his father sticted together for as long as they could and they did whatever they could to be together. Later on his father died because of the abuse and he just couldn’t go on.

A book about a kid named Salva and his life as a refugee A Long Walk To Water by: Linda Sue Park. First i will talk about Salva he was 11 living in Southern Sudan when a war started in 1985 and he was in school. Then he had to start walking and he met lots of people and his uncle who kept him alive. He walked for 1 year, then stayed in a refugee camp for 6 years. Then his life changed and his name was on a list to go to America New York. When he got there he got a family and went to college. Next, life got happier he got an email that his father was alive but his brothers died. Finally, he raised enough money to start drilling water holes in villages in Sudan. Throughout his life he met lots of challenges, but just kept walking and never gave

What is one story of a young migrant or refugee that you heard?Are there any ways the story opened your eyes?

For the podcast, I interviewed Lina Abdulnoor, with the intention of exploring the intricacies of refugeehood by analyzing Lina’s refugee experience. Lina lived in Iraq with her family until they began receiving death threats due to their religious beliefs. Convinced that they needed to flee the country to survive, they left Iraq as refugees. After leaving Iraq, they settled in Jordan, where they waited two years until the U.N. to approve their request to move to the U.S. in 2012. Lina and her family initially settled in Virginia, where she experienced culture shock as she adapted to American culture and the English language. However, Lina did not feel accepted in Virginia; her experiences in the state led her to think that Americans treated her according to negative stereotypes of Iraqis. After living in Virginia for several months, Lina and her family chose to resettle in San Diego, California, which harbored a larger Iraqi population than Virginia did. Supported by San Diego’s Iraqi community and various refugee organizations, Lina flourished, and she currently studies at UCSD while holding a stable job.

Moral traits are shaped by the culture you’ve grown up in. This can be found true in the novel The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, characters prove in many ways how their culture shows through the approach to the Price family. The Price family moved to the Kilanga to spread the word of Jesus Christ. While on their mission they come to meet a individual by the name of Anatole Ngemba that shows how the Congo does define a person's character but by their actions only.

I thought they were happy to see me, but when I opened the door to our shack, I saw that everything we owned was neatly packed in cardboard boxes. I was shocked! We were moving? Since when? I walked further into our shack and saw Roberto and Papa carrying boxes to the Carcanchita. I then saw Mama holding her pot walking over to the Carcanchita very carefully trying her best to not step on one of my younger sibling’s toys.

Toni Morrison's Recitatif presents the ontological question of reality and its validity. The underlying inquiry to reality's validity comes in the form of Twyla's memories. In Act 1, Twyla recalls a memory from her childhood, saying, "I don't know why I dreamt about that orchard so much. Nothing really happened there.