Monday, March 27, 2017
Tasting the Sky Pt. 1
Tasting the Sky is an interesting story of a young girl's life in Palestine. It is written by Ibtisim Barakat about her experiences as a child during the Six Day War with Israel. Their father is extremely worried of a war between Palestine and Israel at the beginning of the book. When war breaks out, the family flees to escape the violence. The family tries to escape to Jordan along with others. Upon reaching a camp, only the women and children are allowed to stay. All men are forced to find refuge elsewhere. The war lasts Six Days. The families stick together and afterwards they try to return home. There, they find their homes riddled with bullets and the invading Israeli troops train nearby. The mom takes the family to the orphanage and claims that their father died so they can get in. Ibtisim's brothers are sent away from the orphanage for fighting. Afterwards, their father returns and convinces Ibtisim's mom to try again at a life in a normal house. From the beginning of the book, Ibtisim said she would never forget the war and she hasn't. Her memories of her life and the war makes the book very sad and goes to show that civilians are always the ones who are hurt the most by war.
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Interesting. Stories about the conflict between Isreal and Palestine are neat. From what you posted though it seems like they're trying to paint Palestine as the victims and Isreal as the heros when both have committed attrocities.
ReplyDeleteAnthony- Sounds like an interesting history. It makes me wonder how many other children were left at an orphanage for similar reasons.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your last sentence. I feel as though nobody thinks about the civilians in war. It's not their fault their government went to war yet they feel most of its effects.
ReplyDeleteYour book sounds very sad. But the experiences in it sound very human, and I think that is important. It sounds like an interesting read in that way.
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