In the sea there are Crocodiles by Fabio Geda is a book about a boy who lived with his mother in Nava, Afghanistan until his mother took him to Kandahar, Afghanistan then to Quetta, Pakistan. She did this because the Taliban threatened to make Enaiatollah and his little brother slaves if his mother did not pay “back” the cost for the merchandise damaged in her husband’s/ Enaiatollah’s fathers crash caused by a gang. When Enaiatollah mother brings him to Quetta they stay in a hotel type place for illegals. One night she says goodnight to him and has him repeat after her that he will never use drugs, weapons, and he will never steal no matter what happens to him. The next morning she leaves him at the hotel to continue the journey to safety by himself. On his journey he follows these three rules even in the toughest times when things are stolen from him, he does not use weapons to gain that item back he makes a “trade”. He follows these rules even when he has nothing to eat and is starving, in fact, he helps others. …show more content…
He soon loses his mother and is left with little connection to the outside world and a change of clothes. He arrives in Quetta with his mother and once she leaves he wanders the streets looking for this man named Kaka Rahim. Kaka Rahim offers him work not paid, which he took the job, serving tea. Kaka Rahim gave him the tea and other necessary items to deliver to the people of the city every morning, once he gave the people what they wanted he got paid and sometimes if he was lucky he would be tipped. Not knowing he could keep the tips he would give all the money to Kaka Rahim once he returned, thinking that was what he had to do. There were several times he could have just taken the money and left but he always returned with the money all accounted for, never stealing any of it (rule
When he finishes his prayer he wanders around the city passing through neighborhoods. Atiq ends up at a jailhouse and decides to spend the night there than going home to his wife which he had a fight with about her illness. Atiq lays there in the cell when a man named Nazeesh comes in asking if he can stay the night, Atiq agrees and Nazeesh offers him dried meat and some crab apples. Nazeesh starts talking about his hundred year old father and how he has lost most of his eye sight and use of his legs, but he is always complaining about something. He also mentioned how he thought he died and told all his family members about his death and when he woke up the next day he sees him alive complaining to everyone. At times Nazeesh can’t control his anger so he starts yelling back at his father but he knows that he doesn’t want to upset the god so he spends most of his time outside avoiding his father, he even brings his food outside on the streets with him. Nazeesh then tells Atiq about how he is going to go away and he has all his stuff ready to go, but he’s just waiting on his foot to heal. Atiq then says that he won’t go because he has been saying he is going to leave for the past months. They start arguing until Nazeesh gets fed up and decides to leave. After Nazeesh leaves Atiq then goes home to his wife after he realizes that he is not going to treat her
She confronts him about the way he’s treated her.
Sarah and her mother are sought out by the French Police after an order goes out to arrest all French Jews. When Sarah’s little brother starts to feel the pressures of social injustice, he turns to his sister for guidance. Michel did not want to go with the French Police, so he asks Sarah to help him hide in their secret cupboard. Sarah does this because she loves Michel and does not want him to be discriminated against. Sarah, her mother, and her father get arrested for being Jewish and are taken to a concentration camp just outside their hometown. Sarah thinks Michel, her beloved brother, will be safe. She says, “Yes, he’d be safe there. She was sure of it. The girl murmured his name and laid her palm flat on the wooden panel. I’ll come back for you later. I promise” (Rosnay 9). During this time of inequality, where the French were removing Sarah and her mother just because they were Jewish, Sarah’s brother asked her for help. Sarah promised her brother she would be back for him and helped him escape his impending arrest. Sarah’s brother believed her because he looks up to her and loves her. As the story continues, when Sarah falls ill and is in pain, she also turns to her father for comfort, “at one point she had been sick, bringing up bile, moaning in pain. She had felt her father’s hand upon her, comforting her” (Rosnay 55).
She explains to the community that the current cycle that her father and the adults created is not going to work out forever. While under the current cycle, many outsiders snuck their way inside the community and stole money and food. Not only that, the watchers noticed that the thieves carried guns. She mentions to the crowd about her recurring nightmares where she is levitating and flies toward the door of her room.
"How The Crocodile Got It's Skin" is a myth because it meets all the criteria a myth requires. The three requirements a story must have in order to be a myth is it must follow a pattern, answer the question "why?", and follow a belief system. The crocodile is introduced to the readers early in the story by repeatedly coming out of the water; "The crocodile became very proud of its skin and started coming out of the water to bask...even while the sun was still shining". (Paragraph 2) In order for a story to be a myth it must follow a pattern. Theoretically because the crocodile seeks the attention, he continuously came out of the water to bask; therefore, meeting one of the requirements of a myth. Also, in the text it said, "But each day
By stealing the nickel from him, she is now able to pay for or partially pay for the medicine her grandson needs, but when she finally arrives to the town, the nurses offer her money and give her the medicine as “charity” (6).
By the end of the story, although tortured by his choices, he achieves moral independence from his father.
Persistence pushed him to face his fears and continue the walk. In the middle of the walk to the camp, Salva watched his uncle get robbed and killed. Salva’s self-confidence diminished. On top of his insecurity, the group he traveled with complained about how the Salva was a waste to their limited food supply and abandoned him. However, Salva realized, “There is no one left to help me”.
At first she has difficulty comprehending Sarah's patience with a master who has sold off three of her children. Likewise, she observes that Isaac Greenwood "was like Sarah, holding himself back, not killing in spite of anger I could only imagine. A lifetime of conditioning could be overcome, but not easily."
Inevitably, her escape was against her father’s wish as he believed that she would not be capable of successfully making through this trip by herself. However, she shows autonomy after being left alone by a guardian set up by her father, half way through the journey, she was able to, she was able to fix this situation on her own. With minimal help, she makes it to the cottagers defining that she set her own path for the continuity of her life. This independence is also expressed in such ways where she teaches herself social and language aspects of the cottagers. She did not rely on Felix to help her make it through this new life. Therefore, giving herself the freedom to educate herself in order to survive in this new
He was really proud of the money that was stolen, but he did not need the money before so why would he need it now. His decision was based on the need for safety and love in his family and not the greed for
The United States has had a long-standing policy of intervening in the affairs of other nations when the country has thought it within its best interests to do so. Since the 1970’s the United States has tried to impose its will on other nations to combat the most pressing political enemy of the day often linking the war on drugs to the matter to stoke support both domestically and abroad. In the times of the Cold War, this enemy was communism and the government tried to make the connection of the “Red Dope Menace” insinuating drug links with China, Castro’s Cuba, and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. However, as the world has evolved and communism’s prominence has waned, there is a new enemy whose existence has become intertwined with the drug war. That enemy is terrorism. The connection has gone so far that politicians and journalists have coined a new term to describe the link calling this new problem of our time “Narco-terror.” This paper will examine US efforts to control the drug trade and fight terrorism in Colombia, Peru, Afghanistan and the desired and often undesired consequences that have come about because of those efforts.
does not wish to strike down his mother, but realises that he must. The defense
money. Later on he lies to his family saying that he spent his savings and
Amir begins his life as a meek boy who desperately clambered to earn his father's’ affection. He was a cowardly, selfish, short minded boy who would even stab his childhood friend in the back for a slim chance at bonding with his dad. He was outshone by his best friend, who would stand between the bullies and Amir, and fight Amir’s battles for him. His father noticed this, and told Rahim Khan “A