CHAPTER ONE- SARAJEVO Record definitions for the following terms, refugee, immigration, emigration and illegal immigration. Refugee- A person who is forced to leave your country in order to escape war, persecution or natural disaster. Immigration- The act of someone who has come to live in a new country permanently. Emigration- The act of someone leaving their own country to go and live in another. Illegal immigration- A foreigner who has entered or resides in a country unlawfully or without the country’s authority. Dot point two facts about each of the following characters, Asmir, Muris, Mirsada, Eldar, Grandmother, and Aunt Melita. Asmir -Comes from Bosnia Herzegovina. -Asmir was born in Sarajevo. -Asmir is Muslim. Muris -Muris was …show more content…
The unfortunate events that continue to happen to Asmir and his family create an unfair mood. Asmir and his family have the right to safety which is not being upheld in their current lifestyle. A quote to show the unsafe, unfair conditions is ‘seeing more and more blood on the road’ and ‘seeing the flash of gunfire’ on his family’s journey to the airport when all Asmir wanted was to wake up in his own bed again with Muris by his side. Another mood created is sadness. Sadness is a strong mood in this text because the book was based on a true story and there are many people who have to live in similar conditions around the world, for example the current war in Syria. The overall mood created is sadness because of the difficult unfair …show more content…
One of the many devices used is a simile. A simile is the comparison of two things often the comparison is unrealistic and used to create an image in the reader’s head. A simile usually compares two things using ‘like’ or ‘as’ for example, ‘it was sweet and warm and thick like the dark chocolate icing on his birthday cake’ (pg. 49). This quote reminds Asmir of positive memories before the war began and they were forced to flee Sarajevo leaving Muris. The use of the simile effects the reader’s interpretation of the text because they have something to compare it to making Asmir’s happy emotion clear. Another device Mattingley used throughout this book is emotive language. Emotive language is used to change the feel of the sentence and impact the emotion interpreted by the reader. Emotive language is used frequently on page 47 to describe how happy Asmir is to have arrived in a safe place. ‘Round and round they ran, dizzy with delight’ (pg.49) is an example of the emotive language used throughout the book. Overall Mattingley uses similes and emotive language throughout his book to engage with the reader but also to strongly show how the character
This essay will discuss the issue of migration. Migration is movement by humans from one place to another. There are two types of migration, it is immigration and emigration. Immigration is movement by people into the country and emigration is movement by humans, who want to leave countries voluntary or involuntary. Economic, religious, education, social and economic problems are reasons for migration.
In the middle of the novel, Lakshmi gets sick. This part of the novel says: “‘A few days later when I am finally strong enough to get out of bed, I pass by a mirror. The face that looks back is that of a corpse. Her eyes are empty. She is old and tired. Old and angry. Old and Sad. Old, Old, a hundred years old.’” (McCormick 192). This shows the change because the mood is changed to sad. She can’t even recognize herself anymore, she has been changed for the worst. There was also another time in the novel when the mood of the book changes. This part of the novel is when Harish gives her something, the author writes: “A tear is running down my cheek. It quivers a moment of the tip of my nose, then splashes onto my skirt, leaving a small, dark circle. I have been beaten here, locked away, violated for a hundred times and a hundred times more. I have been starved and cheated, tricked and disgraced. How odd is it that I am undone by the simple kindness of a small boy with a yellow pencil” (McCormick 182-183). This changes the mood to very sweet because she has been through so much and she does not feel anything, but just one person is nice to her and she is crying tears of happiness. These examples show that the tone of the story affects the mood of the
The first literary device is a simile and it paints a picture in the readers head.
For example, He says “The barbed wire encircled us like a wall…”(11). He is trying to compare barbed wire to a wall. He wants us to imagine it was a wall and that's what it felt like for them but he always turned it into a positive because he felt they were now part of a small Jewish republic. In addition, He also said “Monday went down like a small summer cloud, like a dream in the first hours of dawn.”(18). He trying to tell us that monday felt short by describing what it literally felt like but it wasn’t actually. Emotions can get really high in times this and things start to feel different . Similes were a way for the author to express his feelings to the
A Refugee is a person who has been forced to leave their country because of the war or the
Refugee is someone who fled his/her country because of conflict or for fear of been prosecuted for reason of race, nationality, religion, sexuality, and political opinion (UNHCR, 1 February, 2002). An asylum seeker is someone who fled his/her country of origin and applies for recognition as a refugee in another country, and
The mood that occurred most in the book is vexing because the way people acted would make you vexed. For example when the jury had said tom robinson was guilty everyone knew he was innocent but he was still guilty so that would make you feel vexed. “A jury never looks at a defendant it has convicted, and when this jury came in, not one of them looked at Tom Robinson.”(Lee 282) That is one of many examples in the book where things make you extremely mad and it is usually racism that makes you vexed because it happens all throughout ...
According to the 1951 Refugee Convention, refugee is a term applied to anyone who is outside his/her own country and cannot return due to the fear of being persecuted on the basis of race, religion, nationality, membership of a group or political opinion. Many “refugees” that the media and the general public refer to today are known as internally displaced persons, which are people forced to flee their homes to avoid things such as armed conflict, generalized violations of human rights or natural and non-natural disasters. These two groups are distinctly different but fall ...
Mood: apprehension, general discontent, loss of interest, hopelessness, anger, elevated mood, mood swings, apathy, euphoria, sadness, guilt, or inability to feel
Immigration is when a person is moving to a foreign country to live there permanently.
Refugee is an important term and concept existing in international studies. In order to understand the problems confronting refugees, we must first know the definition and the concept of refugee.
Refugees have two basic choices. They can return to their home country, or they can try to settle in another country. Most refugees, however, cannot return home because conditions in their native country have not changed sufficiently to eliminate the problems from whi...
Immigration is one of the most common disputes in the United States, let’s define what immigration stands for. Immigration is the act of coming to a foreign country to live, the act of leaving one 's country to settle in another is called emigration. Immigrants who leave their country because of persecution, war, or disasters such as famines or epidemics are known as refugees or displaced persons.
A refugee is defined as an individual who has been forced to leave their country due to political or religious reasons, or due to a threat of war or violence. There were 19.5 million refugees worldwide at the end of 2014, 14.4 million under the mandate of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), around 2.9 million more than in 2013. The other 5.1 million Palestinian refugees are registered with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). With the displacement of so many people, it is difficult to find countries willing to accept all the refugees. There are over 125 different countries that currently host refugees, and with this commitment comes the responsibility of ensuring these refugees have access to the basic requirements of life: a place to live, food to eat, and a form of employment or access to education.
Emotions are evoked with the aim to free persons from disturbing emotions. In instances of pity and fear persons tend to accumulate these feelings, which is harmful to the soul. In tragedy, however, whatever sufferings witnessed are not in our control and these emotions are easily released thereby relieve the excess in our souls. Tragedy transforms these distressing emotions into “calm of mind”, thus, the emotional appeal of poetry leads to pleasure. In addition, esthetic emotion in poetry translates to pleasure. The reader and the listener of the poem are prompted through figurative language to visualize what is in the real world. The vividness of the imaginary world that is experienced by the reader, poet and listener generates to a new spiritual knowledge or understanding which gives pleasure (Berlant, p.189). To add on, melancholy as an aesthetic emotion is a source of pleasure. Melancholy involves a variety of emotions; a yearning, sadness, feeling uplifted and even an elusive excitement. It has both pleasure and displeasure aspects. The displeasure aspect lies in the feeling of grief, fear of the unknown, loneliness and emptiness. The pleasurable aspect is entirely about reflecting on elaborate illusion and happy memories. Melancholy is therefore deliberately pursued by finding seclusion. In seclusion reflection is deepened which in turn prolongs the pleasure. Dylan in his poem reveals instances of melancholy Gale, Cengage Learning,