Under The Persimmon Tree: Chapter Analysis

Through out war in america We as a country have been at war for years, the horrors of wars of bombs, airstrikes and nukes and we still face that today. In the book all quiet on the western front As war went on they had trials that weren't the best.

Hiroshima and Nagasaki were calamitous airstrikes that left thousands of people perished and with brutal trauma. In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, the government produced mini air strikes to induce terror into the citizen’s mind allowing the government to feed off that terror. Furthermore, the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and 1984 have segments of divergence and parallel structures.

These attacks were a changing point in American society because it brought out racism and discrimination against Muslim and Islamic people.For example,the author discloses,”I know America has a right

The thundering sound of the bomb blast could be heard for miles. Men, women, and children run frantically in order to find shelter, being blinding by the massive amounts of dust that have caused the sky to turn yellow. Mothers are scavenging for their children, who were playing games outside, now stuck deep in the rubble of buildings that have collapsed on top of them. Houses have been destroyed, families have been obliterated and innocent lives have been lost. For many around the world, situations like these have become a part of everyday life. In A Pure, High Note of Anguish, author Barbara Kingsolver describes the confusion and questions that arose after the terrorist attacks in New York City on September 11th. 9/11 was the largest terrorist

The author of the book, John Hersey, had a good purpose in telling so many individual anecdotes about the life before the bomb. He focused on expressing the stories of these survivors in a way in which the reader could see it from their point of view. His aim was to demonstrate that each individual was a real human being with real feelings just like us. The author seeks to make sure that readers understand that the bombings happened to people who had a daily life and were astonished by what had happened. Hersey demonstrates that the bombing impacted people who had previously been undergoing a lot in life.

The reader is left with a sense of betrayal by the government and offended by it’s blatant lies. An obvious question is: if the government has been lying about cluster bombs and has been getting away with it, what else are they lying about?

(Military History inc, 2017). After the last bombs were dropped and people were in shock it had only just come to mind that how many people have died and how many more were injured, A major long term effect would be the amount of family that lost loved ones and close friends and how that would effect the rest of their

(AGG) All around the world, there has been situations like PTSD affecting people’s daily lives, as the author uses it in a book. (BS-1) Millions of people have been affected by PTSD from what they have seen and it makes things harder to not forget about the event. (BS-2) PTSD affected Najmah, because her dealing with hard losses. (BS-3) Nusrat and Najmah struggles with themselves, showing an internal conflict of Man vs Self. (TS) Throughout the book, Under The Persimmon Tree, the author uses real life situations, like PTSD, to change and shape a character’s personality.

From Module three and the videos attached; please summarize at least three detailed observations from your review or from the C2TLearn content material and explain the potential outcomes of terrorist incidents.

“The price of beef escalated from roughly fifteen hundred dinar a kilo to twelve thousand dinar. Anything that had to be imported became very expensive (55)”. An example of movement of people is illustrated in the various Al Qaeda groups in Iraq. “Many of the fighters involved in al-Qaeda in Iraq were foreigners, who came because they thought they were fighting jihad and infidels and nonbelievers” (117). Another example of movement of people is described when Johny is asked by the SEALs on moving to America. “It may not be safe for you here. Or for your family” (229). Finally an example of movement of ideas is depicted by the description of the ancient Ottoman-Safavid war. “During that war, there was a great massacre of Sunni believers by the Iranian shah, who wanted to purify the city for the Shia” (195).

(AGG) As said by Manly Hall, “Symbolism is the language of the Mysteries. By symbolism men have ever sought to communicate to each other those thoughts that transcend the imitation of language”, and there are many signs of symbolism in the book Under the Persimmon Tree by Suzanne Fischer Staples, especially involving the stars. (BS-1) Stars do symbolize many different elements in the book, but a literary view, or surface view, on the stars, as well as each character's personal connection to stars is evident as well. (BS-2) Moving more into the symbolism of stars, they convey the mental state of Najmah throughout the book. (BS-3) Not only are the stars used in a more in-depth meaning for Najmah, there are also major instances for Nusrat,

terror situations as expressed earlier in the characteristics of the storm. While writers differ in their

The threat worsened by the fact that they act as ignorant beings. While this is used to help the audience discover the terrorists motives it also reflects the feeling of the author at this point, somewhat

While reading Alas, Babylon, the middle section of page 85 stood out to me greatly, perhaps more than any other passage I’d encountered in the book up to that point. In that section, Randy and Helen have a conversation about how Ben Franklin and Peyton, Helen and Mark’s children, have been conditioned in such a way that they are able to handle receiving the news of imminent nuclear war in a cool, even-tempered manner. I felt an immediate connection with the two children, because I’ve been exposed to similar circumstances from the time I was very young. Having been born in July of 2001, barely two months before the attacks of September 11, I can’t recall a single period in my life during which the U.S. wasn’t involved in conflict of any sort.

Purpose: To inform readers of the effects the recent terrorist attacks have on society today.