Refugee Suffering: Complementary By Angelina Jolie

“A new level of refugee suffering: Complementary”

Angelina Jolie, in her January 2015 New York Times article “A new level of refugee suffering: Complementary”, argues that the United Nations and other developed countries should take actions and help Syrians to end the war. Angelina Jolie claims that Syrian refugees have been witnessing brutality, violence, struggling to survive. The children can’t go to school; a lot of Syrians lost their members of the family by being shot, raped or tortured. In order to stop the war and help Syrian refugees to find peace and calm we have to defend them and provide necessary things such as food, healthcare, work, so they can start living as normal people without worrying again. In her article Angelina Jolie

Back in 2001 while shooting “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in Cambodia” movie, Angelina Jolie became aware of the people suffering in the war-torn country - “my eyes started to open,” she would later say (O’Hanlon, D2). That experience gave her a better understanding of a worldwide humanitarian crisis which led Angelina Jolie to contact the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In her essay “A new level of refugee suffering: Complementary”, Angelina Jolie claims that she had visited Iraq five times and witnesses suffering, which she had never seen before: people with no home, unspeakable brutality, struggling to survive, violence, children are out of school, poverty (Jolie,

The audience knows Angelina Jolie as an excellent actress. She is using her celebrity influence to push for worldwide action toward the Syrian refugee crisis through emotional articles, essays through newspapers, magazines to share her experience with the audience. Angelina Jolie spent time with a Syrian refugee family during a humanitarian trip and said that the conflict in Syria has "created a wave of human suffering." Syrians are suffering from the bombs, chemical weapons, rape and massacres (Jolie, 44). For example, she mentioned a story in her essay “A new level of refugee suffering: Complementary”a family of eight children with no parents, their father had been killed and mother was taken by ISIS (Jolie, 44). Angelina Jolie is very emotional when it comes to the fight against the refugee crisis, in her article “A new level of refugee suffering: Complementary” she recalls the stories which she heard from the Syrian refugees which made her speechless and very emotional toward helping these refugees to raise the issue to the world and helping them to defend the country and resolve the refugee crisis (Jolie, 45). Angelina Jolie evokes – “ How can you speak when a women your own age looks you in the eye and tells you that her whole family was killed in front of her, and that she now lives alone in a tent and has minimal