Summary Of Home By Sarah Keynon Lise

In literary works, the strong messages and ideas presented by an author whether it may be real world connections or an individual experience that engages the reader and manipulation one's emotions in order to mak a reader feel something and gain a message from the text. In the essay, Causes and Consequences of Conflict-Induced Displacement by Sarah Keynon Lischer and the story poem, “Home” by Warson Shire both texts expanded upon modern-day struggles for an individual group of people in distinct ways but both providing the same key message. Sarah Keynon Lischer idea about political violence affecting refugees helps me understand the fictional source “Home” by Warson Shire, through race, to convey the theme that war and political violence dehumanizes

As written in the text, “No one chooses refugee camps or strip searches where your body is left aching or prison, because prison is safer” (Shire 2). The author explains in the text the constant push towards people, getting forced into dilapidated camps with no hope of finding a way out because they know what they will meet if they try to escape. No more than rapers and heinous people ready to throw aside their integrity in order to destroy an individual whether physically or emotionally. Along with the constant struggle to find safety in a new location, Shire goes on to write, “I don’t know what i’ve become but i know that anywhere is safer than here” (Shire 3). This quote conveys the broad topic that any ounce of what made people human has completely left them. They are left with the guns, bomb, and weapons that have killed their loved ones and blew up their house. They are with the dried up blood on the battles. It is dispersed everywhere throughout the country. The simple phrase, “be yourself” means nothing to them because no one knows who they are after all they have put been through. They have lost so much but the most important thing people have lost is themselves. All they want is escape from their so-called home. Warsan Shire’s ability to express the internal struggle that many took through war expands on the broader topic that the definition of home after these experience could be an endless