Beirut

BEIRUT
A man who was blasted out of two apartments once said, “‘Home is home’, he said, ‘even if it is nothing but sticks and stones.’”(226) These people in the book have their houses destroyed, and yet they look on the brighter side. Living in a country not so fortunate as the U.S. people are not as privileged. People in Beirut live in conditions very different from our own, mostly because of the violence. Bombs destroyed houses and buildings, leaving people homeless, and sometimes dead. Living in America, we do not have the danger or fear of being killed in the middle of the night by a stray bomb. Our two countries are different because we do not live in constant fear of our lives, whereas people in Arab countries live worrying for their lives. We do not realize the danger of living in a country in the Middle-East where violence is abundant. Living in small-town America, violence is not a typical way of life for us. We are not exposed to bombings and gunfire like the Middle-eastern countries. It is interesting how our countries are so different, in terms of violence. Living in a country where we do not typically encounter violence, we have no idea what it is like living in a country where fighting is abundant.
-C.W.