Literacy Round 1

Case Study: Why do People flee home?

The first round of Literacy class, students were learning based on the case study: Why do people flee home? We use resources such as websites and books to further perceive the topic . We read a book called Inside out and back again, written by Thanhha Lai. When finished reading, students have a much more in-depth understanding about this very universal problem. At the end of the round, each student was required to write a poem about a made up character, and how he/she felt being a refugee and while fleeing home. Below is my poem. And it’s about a guy who flee home because of civil war happen in his country. 

 

I believe!

 

My name is Marko.

I am not Christian, but Muslim.

 

I grow up in Bosnia

living with my parents.

 

My house was so beautiful 

with one dike flow nearby.

 

I always fall asleep 

with the sound of the water 

That flow

From the dikes.

 

After seven years, my parents had died

Because of an accident.

 

Everything had turned inside out.

 

I need to live by myself

In order to survive.

 

I need to do everything.

It’s really hard for me 

Because I’m just 7 years old.

But I had to accept it.

 

But here, I’m 20 years old right now, 

Everythings had turned back,

I BELIEVE!

 

I live peacefully in Bosnia,

In the same house as usual.

 

I still always fall asleep

With the sound of water

That flow from the dikes. 

 

After two decades, 

I thought I will live peacefully forever.

 

But now it wasn’t,

WAR had turned my life

Back Inside out again.

 

Not just me,

Everyone were worried,

They don’t want that 

to happen in their country.

 

Civil war had begun

In my country.

All of the troops had declared. 

 

Before,

The sound of the water 

that flow from the dikes

Used to make me fall asleep.

 

But now,

Everynight,

I never fall asleep,

The sound of gun mixed with bomb

Making me feel more than

Spooky.

 

Sooner,

The war had come 

More closer to my home.

 

I need to escape 

so then I won’t get killed.

So I decide to move to France.

 

Now here I am,

Paris, France. 

I can do everything just to come here.

It’s safer than my country.

 

Paris welcome me so warm.

They don’t discriminate me,

Even Though I am a

Refugee.

 

I came out of the darkness 

and saw the lights here in Paris, France.

My life had turned Inside Out, but now Back Again. 

 

                                                                       Huykea Sun  

                                                                      Wednesday, October, 16, 2019 

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