OBAA and AOW Comparison

            In the article "Holocaust survivors demand Israel help refugees" and the book Of Beetles and Angels have many connections between individuals. A connection in specific, Avital Collete, a main part from the article said she had remembered when she was "spending years hiding, afraid for her life". This connects to the book because it had said that Mawi had to leave his home as a refugee as well. This also connects both the article and the book by both of them still being kids when they had to leave (or hide) as refugees.

            In the article "Holocaust survivors demand Israel help refugees" and the book Of Beetles and Angels have many connections between its events. In the article it said that Avital Collete was "Being forced from her home by Nazi soldiers...". This connects to the book because Mawi also was forced out of his home because of the war, and then had left to America. I know this because in the book it says "Then we entered a plane and took off from Khartoum. Next stop, Athens. The Amerikha, and then there, a new life."

           War affects individuals and societies because it causes harm to both of them. It causes danger and harm to individuals because wars don't miss civilians, if they are caught in a shoot out, they will probably die. Also it affects them because it makes individuals and societies move to refugee camps, just to get away from the danger. For example in the book it says "Trace walking to the house's white exterior, laying her hands on it for a few moments, feeling its heartbeat - feeling her own heart beat - then kissing it, knowing that she might never see it again." For them, the war was about to hit their town and forced them to seek safety at a refugee camp. As for in my article, it says "... being forced from her home by Nazi soldiers and spending years hiding, afraid for her life." This meant that she had to flee and go into hiding because of Germany, when they where at war and wanted to kill all of the Jews.

Parents waving goodbye at a Kinder-transport train. Parents that where Jews and that had kids would send their kids away from Germany so they wouldn't be captured.