Yinglan Yin Professor Joyce Luck English 110 29 April, 2016 “Letter from Gaza” As most of us are living in a peaceful and safe country, we can hardly imagine what an actual war is and what harm it brings to those affected by its horrors in real life. In “Letter from Gaza”, Ghassan Kanafani uses the letter format to better communicate his message to the reader and make his confessions appear more intimate. In such a way, such elements of the work as a letter form, the eternal theme of peace and war involving the Arab-Israeli conflict, characters and tone work together to create the meaning of Letter from Gaza and effectively communicate the author’s main idea, that of the power of true patriots’ decisions to never leave the homeland along with …show more content…
In addition, he decided to stay in his hometown Gaza with his family instead. As soon as the reader starts reading the letter in which the narrator addresses Mustafa, it feels as if one is reading a private correspondence between the friends. The narrator is well aware that he may strike Mustafa “as rather odd” (Kanafani 984) when he informs him of the decision not to move to California. The narrator makes up his mind to never leave his homeland despite the fact he is well aware how hazardous it may turn out for him and what opportunities he rejects with his …show more content…
Obviously, the narrator values his family and his own self over money because he sincerely wants to stay in Gaza after he realizes his homeland and relatives are the most important things that cannot be left behind. That is why in the end of the letter, the narrator calls Mustafa to come back to Gaza in order to learn what a real life is and why it is worth living. After reading this story written in the letter form, the reader is not surprised by the final decision that the narrator makes. Besides, Kanafani makes the reader feel how absurd war is and how important peace is. Still, he makes it clear that even in the midst of bombings, people can find their inner peace provided that they do not compromise true their values and inner
Having skilled war within the Middle East, she articulated disappoint, frustration and anger with a few political leaders’ adoptions that spreading conflicts and affected prone populations. She objects inequalities and does no longer hide her feelings while irritated. Nye’s poems are all times based on stability as compared to exploitation and chaos. Her stress on inspecting and presenting diverse topics associates readers no matter their variances. She articulates value for humans’ field and desires them to proportion their insights.
Over many centuries, Poetry and song has been a way for people to explore their feelings, thoughts and questions about War & Peace. Rupert Brooke's “The Soldier” and Cold Chisel’s “Khe Sanh” provide two different insights into the nature of war. . “The Soldier” conveys a message of bravery for soldiers to go into war and fight while “Khe sanh” conveys a message about post-traumatic stress and the horrible factors of coming back into civilization after war.
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The main theory behind such writing is awakening the people back at home, and showing them the seriousness of the situation. Instead of sugar-coating details, or giving just positive accounts of war, it is essential to tell the peopl...
No one knows what will happen in his or her life whether it is a trivial family dispute or a civil war. Ishmael Beah and Mariatu Kamara are both child victims of war with extremely different life stories. Both of them are authors who have written about their first-hand experience of the truth of the war in order to voice out to the world to be aware of what is happening. Beah wrote A Long Way Gone while Kamara wrote The Bite of the Mango. However, their autobiographies give different information to their readers because of different points of view. Since the overall story of Ishmael Beah includes many psychological and physical aspects of war, his book is more influential and informative to the world than Kamara’s book.
“Ducks” is valuable poem as Nye propagates the effect of the war on herself and Arab culture. Initially, she uses the appreciation many Arabs have for books as an example of the rich heritage of her people. However, Nye inherently ponders the question of when the world will see Palestinians in this way again since the conflict has produced an erroneous perception of Arab culture. Naturally, she writes about her...
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This marked the beginning of the Palestine armed conflict, one of its kinds to be witnessed in centuries since the fall of the Ottoman Empire and World War 1. Characterized by a chronology of endless confrontations, this conflict has since affected not only the Middle East relations, but also the gl...
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A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain ...
How I had lighed. I smiled at the memory now” (Hosseini 366). Had Amir not immigrated to America, one would not see a cleansed and stable main character reminiscing about his father at the end.
The graphic novel Palestine written by Joe Sacco is a trustworthy description of different stories in the heart of the century-long conflict between Arabs and Israeli. Sacco produced the graphic novel after spending two months with the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories in late 1991 and early 1992. Things certainly have changed since thenThe story is all about what happened in that part of the Middle East at the beginning of the 1990s. In this respect, a critical viewpoint should be applied in order to discuss the main topics in detail. Thus, Palestine is actually a guide for a Westerner willing to know what occurs in the Middle East each time the conflict between Israeli and Palestinians takes place.Excellent contemporary graphic novel. The characters convincingly portrayed. Sacco has a journalist eye and a storyteller’s heart.
War is a patriotic act where one seeks the determination to lead their country. It can be viewed noble, cruel, inhumane and can make an individual a hero or a criminal. It effects everyone in a society, hoping their loved one is safe whether fighting in the trenches or waiting at home. It has led to severe individuals suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder. Two poems in war literature “Anthem for Doomed Youth” by Wilfred Owen and “Facing it” by Yusef Komunyakaa, the authors’ different perspectives will be presented. Owen portrays war as a horror battlefield not to be experienced and the glorious feeling to fight for one’s country. Komunyakaa on the other hand shows an African American that serves in Vietnam War and visits the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall. The poets’ choice of diction, setting of battlefield and various uses of poetic devices create a desired effect.
Perhaps the main reason I liked this book was the unfaltering courage of the author in the face of such torture as hurts one even to read, let alone have to experience first-hand. Where men give in, this woman perseveres, and, eventually, emerges a stronger person, if that is even possible. The book’s main appeal is emotional, although sound logical arguments are also used. This book is also interesting as it shows us another face of Nasir – the so-called “champion of Arab nationalism” – who is also the enemy of pan-Islamism. The book is also proof of history repeating itself in modern-day Egypt.
Although he had endured trials and tribulations to attend the bazaar, he soon finds that, exotic name withstanding, he is still in Dublin, is still impoverished, and his dreams of Araby were merely that, dreams. Our narrator remains a prisoner of his environment, his economic situation, and painful reality. North Richmond Street, the dead-end street described in the first sentence of “Araby” is more than a street. It is a symbol for the way that our protagonist views his life.