Farah Ahmedi's Journey

In watching the interview with Mahershala-Ali I found the first question he was asked very intriguing. I can not remember the full question itself, but I do remember it talked about this second movie playing in one’s mind. Mahershala responded with how movies portray this “fake reality.” This means that people begin to think what they see in movies is what reality is actually like, when actually it is often not. I agree with this, especially from doing work in Ms. Pacatte’s class on how media and entertainment affect our ideas and perceptions of reality. Particularly for girls, romance movies portray a false sense of how love can be and often make females think there is something wrong with them or their relationship if it is not like how movies

Farah Ahmedi’s goal was to cross the Afghanistan border to get to a better life in Pakistan. In the first read, The Other Side of the Sky, it says, “‘Night was falling, we were stranded out there in the open’”(Ahmedi 4). This states it was nighttime and her and her mother had no place to stay. Along the way, her and her mother faced many hardships, “The worst thing would have been if we had gotten separated. We were only risking injury”(Ahmedi 3). In addition, “Terribly warm and we had no water, but we walked. My mother began to wheeze. Her asthma was bad. Her anxiety made it worse. We could have gotten over in little more than an hour if not for my mother. Our journey took many hours”(Ahmedi 11). Overall, they succeeded their mission and made it over the border. For example, “This excerpt from “Escape from Afghanistan” describes their efforts to make it across the border and into Pakistan”(Introduction). This states Ahmedi and her mother made it over the border. In conclusion, Farah Ahmedi

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It’s blistering hot, as the sun beats the soul out of the barren atmosphere of deserted Djibouti. The sand awakens, as barefoot boys chase a ragged ball down the terrain. Blood pouring from his shins, a boy quickly gains control of the jagged sphere and gracefully runs toward a handmade goalpost. He begins to celebrate as the majestic parabola lands perfectly in the net. Twenty-three years later, the world’s eyes would watch on as that same boy would make history running toward something far greater: the glory of not one, but two Olympic gold medals (“Mo Farah,” Gale par. 8). Mohamed Muktar Jama Farah showed the world that through hard work and diligence, dreams can be a revolutionizing reality (Gatehouse par. 2). At a age eight, he boarded

Ibtihaj Muhammad is the first female Muslim Olympian, and is an American sabre fencer for Team USA. She plans to wear a hijab when competing at the Rio Olympics.

Farah Ahmedi tried to escape war torn Afghanistan. For example, in “The Other Side of The Sky” when Ahmedi and her mother were at the Pakistan Afghanistan border “If we got stuck here what would we going to do, where were we going to stay” (Ahmedi 1). Ahmedi wanted to escape very badly because there was no other option for her and her mother. In addition, “Perhaps desperation gave me energy and made me forget the rigor of the climb” (Ahmedi 12). Ahmedi had a prosthetic leg and wanted to escape so badly, that she pushed through

Iranians,1 the majority of whom settled in the United States. A generation later, the girls

The beginning of chapter five of Khaled Hosseini’s, The Kite Runner, marks “The end, the official end” (Hosseini 36). The authors descriptive first lines introduce the reader to the harsh night Amir, Hassan, and Ali are about to undergo. Hosseini uses the literary devices, imagery, alliteration, and onomatopoeia to build a lasting picture of the soon to be changed lives all afghans. Terror is developed in ones mind when Hosseini, uses the line, “A white light flashed, lit the sky in silver…followed by the rapid staccato of gunfire.” (35).

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Her grandmother, brother, three sisters and herself all had to run away.“There is not one family that has not eaten the bitterness of war,” a young Afghan merchant said in the 1985 National Geographic story that appeared with Sharbat’s photograph on the cover. She was a child when her country was caught in the jaws of the Soviet invasion. A carpet of destruction smothered countless villages like hers. She was perhaps six when Soviet bombing killed her parents. By day the sky bled terror. At night the dead were buried. And always, the sound of planes, stabbing her with dread.

Why is it that there are certain individuals who possess the ambition and courage to achieve almost impossible missions while other people struggle to set a goal? For example Farah Ahmedi wanted to escape a war torn country, afghanistan, to Pakistan. On her way she finds a very nice man who helps her cross the border on a secret path. Annie Johnson wants to start making money for her family by making her own path in life. She sells food to factory workers and in the end she is very successful. These are the things that make people strive for their goals.

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In Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and Tatiana de Rosnay’s Sarah’s Key, two historical novels, Amir and Julia Jarmond emerge as strong individuals whose beliefs significantly contrast with those of their societies. Unlike Afghani society in both Afghanistan and the United States, Amir knows Hazaras deserve unalienable rights they have been deprived of. When Amir returns to Afghanistan to rescue Sohrab, Hassan’s orphaned son, he endures physical and emotional pain, risking his own safety so save Sohrab from Assef’s unjust hands. After Amir has successfully brought Sohrab to America, his wife’s family questions his desire to provide for a Hazara. Amir defiantly responds with, “‘And one more thing General Sahib... You will never again refer

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