Creative Writing: Woomera's Main Camp

Along with the American presence, Australia’s treatment of aliens also had the potential to cause considerable divisions. When war broke out, many foreigners, mostly Germans, and other ‘dangerous persons were made to prove their identity and placed under strict rules which they had to adhere to in order to live in Australia. However it was not the government, but the

The hostel is depicted as a place of insecurity where the individual identity has been removed and replaced with anonymity and insignificance ‘no one kept count of all the comings and goings’ and ‘arrivals of newcomers in busloads’. The poet also highlights the migrants need to seek out the familiar in people with the same nationality or culture, in search of a place to belong and a link to their former identities by connecting with other migrants, ‘ Nationalities sought each other out instinctively’.

With the Taliban pursuing Omed, he desperately seeks asylum in Australia via boat. I can relate to and emphasize with Omed’s story, as my family are also refugees who came to Australia. My mother and her family was living in extreme poverty during the Vietnam War. To hopefully survive the war and find a better life, my mother’s family risked their lives by going on a small crowded boat headed to the ocean. They ventured the sea for days hoping that they would see land. Some boats never made it as they often broke or was attacked by other boats, pirates and Vikings. On these boats, everyone was starving as there was little food and water. My mother said that when someone on the boat died, their deceased body would often be eaten by others on the beat to survive. Luckily, my mother’s boat landed in Australia and they were accepted as refugees.

“Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.” -President Snow in The Hunger Games. The book Night by Elie Wiesel is a true story about the holocaust. In the story the main character, Elie, experiences terrible things. He is so hopeful that things are going to get better (after all how could they get any worse) and he is so fearful that his last bit of hope will be taken away and he will give up on life. Elie experiences the worst things that we can imagine. How could anyone have hope in such darkness? What could anyone fear when they have lost everything?

The child soldier Ishmael Beah once said, “These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past.” This represented what Ishmael had to go through during the war. The Sierra Leone war began in 1991. This war was fought by the RUF (Revolutionary United Front) and the National Sierra Leone Army Force. As a consequence, 10,000 child soldiers were recruited, along with them there Ishmael Beah. Beah was only 13 years old when he was forced to become a child soldier by the rebels. In addition, rebel superiors brainwashed Ishmael, along with the rest of the recruited kids by inducing them into drugs such as marijuana, brown-brown and amphetamines. Consequently, a lot of problems were

In Night, by Elie Wiesel, Elie flips on and off with having hope and hopelessness. It was hard to have hope in this horrid time, but however even the smallest and some of the most dangerous things gave Elie hope.

“Migrant Hostel”, gives the responder a perspective of the plight of migrants and the trouble they face in building relationships due to the events in their past and the lack of understanding in the world around them. The metaphor of the “barrier at the main gate… Pointed in reprimand or shame” demonstrates how their housing affects them. A person cannot belong if they feel shamed, furthermore they consider themselves “birds of passage” with constant “comings and goings.” The constantly fluctuating events in their life results in an in-ability to form relationships as they have in-adequate time to form them, hindering belonging. Despite this shared “memories of hunger and hate” allowing some belonging, the alliteration emphasises the hardship of

It is thought by many that part of the Australian identity is being a very tolerant country that accepts and includes all cultures and people from all walks of life; however, after coming across the poems No More Boomerang by Oodgeroo Noonuccal and Be Good, Little Migrants by Uyen Loewald, the experiences felt by two Australians prove that this idea is... questionable.

Hope and humanity are two very important aspects of human nature and without it, life would be very catastrophic to mankind. Cormac McCarthy is the author of The Road. The Road is a dystopian story of an adventure of a father and his young child over a period of several months, over a scene impacted by an unspecified disaster that has demolished a large portion of human advancement and, in the mediating years, all life on Earth. The Road, is plagued by absence such as an absent hope and absent humanity. These absences reveal that without hope and humanity people can’t survive. Cormac McCarthy argues that without hope and humanity, humans can't continue to survive because when people lose hope, they lose their ability to dream for the future and humanity as a universal emotion, people must it have in order to survive for a long time.

Problems that the Taliban have caused, in real life, have impacted the way that many innocent people in various Arab countries used to live--long ago, life was delectable to many. People lived in a state of tranquility, and could live accompanied by one word: freedom. However, later on, and not long ago, the Taliban created a set of strict, over-the top rules that have not only completely

Throughout the book Night, Elie Wiesel provides us with anxiety as Elie and his father go through multiple hardships. Although it may seem like hope, the author discreetly shares despair with the book. Throughout the book they somehow still survive. For example they always pass the selection test even when it seems like they won’t. As it states on page 76 “Were there still miracles on this earth? He was alive. He had passed the second selection.” When it seemed like he was going to lose his father, the author shares hope as the father passes the selection. Families have been separated, Jews are deprived of food and water, are treated like they are lesser humans, killed without regard. They both survive for four years, however when they are

Holocaust narratives are often stories of maintaining hope throughout inhuman treatment, but there is more to it than that. In the case of Elie Wiesel’s memoir Night, first published in English in 1960, hope is denial. Hope is, prior to Elie and his family being sent to Auschwitz, the denial that extermination is imminent. Hope is the denial that what they have heard about the Nazis is true, allowing them to complacently live in a ghetto and then be shipped off by train to a concentration camp. However, after they have arrived hope takes on a new form. Hope is no longer an act of self-destruction, but instead an act of self-preservation. For Elie, to hope in a concentration camp is to deny the very real possibility that his father, Shlomo, will not survive until the end of the war, and for Shlomo hope is the denial that his son will die. For each of them, the hope required to continue living is not the hope that they themselves will survive the war, but instead the hope that the other one will. In Elie’s memoir, hope is both a pathway towards death and survival.

In the Marion "Night" by Elie Wiessel in Aushchwitz, a concentration camp that took may life's of the innocent Jews that is now known as The Holocaust. All the Jews including Elie had no choice to live or die. None of them knew they were going to die that way. Once they found out about their them dying all hope was last and all fear was gain.

In Night Elie Wiesel explains his life in the holocaust, he focuses on what happened to him and those around him, but at the end of the day he always had hope, in the song ¨Hope¨ by Natasha Bedingfield she doesn't give up and everyday is a new day and Elie has that same point of view. For example,in Night, ¨We breathed in air filled with fire and smoke, and our eyes shone with hope.¨ (page 60, Wiesel), even though all these terrible things are happening Elie still got through them and had hope through most of it.The song ¨Hope¨ by Natasha Bedingfield ties in with Night because even when you have a bad day and feeling like hope is gone everyday is a new day, start your next day with positive attitude. For example,¨Remember morning

In October 2000, Meena Gardizi was forced to flee her home in Kabul, Afghanistan because of death threats and persecution from by the Taliban. These threats were made not only to her, but also to her brother and sister-in-law because of Ms. Gardizi. Ms. Gardizi left behind her beloved brother, the only biological family she had left, and his wife in attempts to distance herself from them for their own safety. As a young woman, Ms. Gardizi could not and can not protect herself from the Taliban and their zealots. The government cannot keep her safe. Ms. Gardizi seeks asylum in the United States so that she will not be forced to return to her country, where the Taliban will