Refugee By Alan Gratz: An Analysis

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,

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

Our cohort is nearing the end of its secondary education and therefore it is important that we reflect on the ways in which it has shaped our attitudes, values and beliefs. For example, over the past five years, we have read, analysed and evaluated various literary works such as novels, plays, poems and films in our English studies. These texts have expressed various ideologies, explored interesting themes and introduced us to fascinating characters. These elements have left a lasting impression on our attitudes, values and beliefs. In addition to this, English literary texts have provided us with historical knowledge as well as a thorough understanding of the role that aesthetic devices

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.

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 poverty causes. Refugees are here to escape poverty and persecution; because they have experienced severe trauma, they are at a much higher risk of psychiatric illness than the general population. I believe that these statistics can be reduced if our negative attitude towards marginalized groups changes. Because of the media and government induced stereotypes, Australians often show disdain towards refugees. This inhibits their adjustment to Australian society and creates further division among us. 'The Happiest Refugee' is a valuable resource in the fight against racism because it shows that refugees share our values, embrace our culture and are eager to contribute to Australian society, and I strongly support it’s inclusion in the Rochedale State High School English program.

Christopher Paolini once said, “Without fear there cannot be courage” Fear is what drives us

The story told in, Red Glass, is one that many can relate to. The main character, Sophie is a fearful, anxious, and nervous girl, she has no friends and rarely goes outside she is scared of everything and never traveled by herself. Her and her family were forced by Dika(her aunt) to adopted a kid named Pablo whose parents died. Then Dika, Sophie, and Dika’s so called boyfriend Mr.Lorenzo and his son Angel that attended Sophie’s High School and they where getting to know each other. Four of them had to take Pablo back to his city to see his family so this meant for a road trip from Tucson, Arizona to guatemala. Sophie was scared, and didn’t want to go on this trip but she did. As the trip progresses her fears go away, and she’s not scared anymore about anything her so called boyfriend gets hurt and she goes on a risky trip by herself. By the end of the book she is fearless and brave. In the novel the Red Glass, by Laura Resau, the primary theme is Don’t let fear or anxiety stop you from doing things you love/trying new things.In the start of the novel, Sophie is anxious and afraid of everything, as the book progresses, she begins to realize that she is missing on a lot because of her fear, at the end of the book she is brave and fearless. Sophie changes throughout the novel, but at the beginning she’s very fearful.

“America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.” -President Harry S. Truman. The United States is known as the home of the free

Refugee camps are places around the world where people who were forced out of their go and stay temporarily. The camps are not a nice resort or a place to have fun, they have worn down tents for people to stay and very low sanitation. In the book Other Side of the Sky Farah the main character escapes Afghanistan and later on stays at a refugee camp. In the refugee camps refugees live in tough conditions, Farah and her Mother have a hard time in the camps especially with her mother's problems, which many refugees also face. In the refugee camp Farah says “If I'm going to sink anyway what does it matter whether I think we sink quickly or slowly. You lose your drive (Ahmedi 123).” These camps have poor sanitation, are overly crowded, there are many

Fear is a worldwide, fundamental problem. Everyone has it, just maybe different levels than others. There are some people who can repress it more than others, or can be more afraid of different things. Fear is what drives us to do certain things. For example failure, we’re afraid to fail. We have an instinct because we are afraid to die, or afraid to get hurt, or afraid someone we love might get hurt. So fear can drive us to save the people we love, if they are close to dying, even if saving them could kill us as well. We can be afraid of failure in life so we keep going and keep pushing through the work. But there is the down side to fear, just as everything else. Fear can make us back down from a situation that could be good for us because we could be afraid of the unknown, which, in that situation, we would not want the fear with us. In Cry, the Beloved Country there’s this quote, “and now the fear is back again, the fear of the unknown,” (pg.44) and the first thing that popped into my head when I read that quote was, “when did the fear ever leave?” Because the thing is there is always fear no matter how hard you try to push it to the back of your

Though it means not letting those fears get the best of you. Being fearless means not feeling one ounce anxiety or uneasiness in a situation. So if challenged to jump off a building then that person would take it because they’re not scared. Likewise, an individual with heroism may not seem scared when doing what they do, but somewhere inside they could be petrified of the situation. That doesn’t stop them from doing what they believe in.

“This great nation will endure, as it has endured, will revive and will prosper. So, first of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” (Roosevelt). This is a quote given from Franklin Roosevelt's first inaugural address. An inaugural address is given by the president of the United States after the executive oath of office has been administered. President Franklin Roosevelt’s, John Kennedy’s, and Ronald Reagan’s first inaugural addresses were the most effective and most memorable, they all have many similarities and differences which include social, economic, political, theme, and references.

“Fear is courage,holding on a minute longer”. It means you shouldn’t give up on anything and keep trying. Tenzing Norgay is an example,he was fearful of climbing Everest but held on and was the first in history to summit.

From 1991 over one-sixth of Bhutan’s people flee their country and take a shelter in Nepal, India and other countries around the world. The large populations of Bhutanese refugee are called lhotshamps, an ethnic group, who were forced to leave their country in the early 1990s. Among 105,000 Bhutanese I’m one of them. I was born in a hut made of bamboo, food rations, and dirt roads. We are hostile, unsettled, unsure of who we are and what future held for us. I often think can we ever able to get rid out of the tag called “refugee” would my life ever changed, while ongoing tussled between mind and outside world finally in 2008 United States open a door for us to settled in the United States a “promised land” with full of struggle in 2009 we came here at Grand Forks. As I was growing up in the refugee camp I have seen a countless number of violence, crimes, injuries, and rebuff that words can’t be described. Most importantly death of people from a disease that can be a cure if, we have enough facilities such as, advanced medical training and hospitals. Although during my early childhood I have seen so much of maltreatment and practices, I always thought of having a career in health-related profession because I wanted to invest and improve the lives of individuals so that their children don't have to orphans, forced to work when their parent died, nor they have to beg for food. When I was 10 years old, my friend and I were trying to climb up the mango tree and I step in

POW! POW! YEAH I am refugee man How do I make it here?