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Polar opposites; A rough Draft
Topic Started: Nov 25 2008, 07:05 PM (304 Views)
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Polar opposites, three lives of difference.


As I sit in fount of my computer… I wonder on my life. I live in a nice house, in a nice neighborhood. I do just chores for my rent… even if I slack on them at times… I have a good girlfriend who I can go see anytime because her house is in walking distance. I have a good car that runs on 20 bucks of gas for two weeks. I have a computer that I can’t seem to stay off of… even when I have chores and work to do…. A nice warm bed…. I got so many good things in our country, the United States of America. After seeing the movie, Osama… I though hard on what the differences of life are here and there… we seem to be polar opposites.
The girl in Osama has lived a hard life. Her father died when she was young and her mother had to risk going to work to treat the wounded and the sick, having to dodge the Taliban and worry about people who might sell them out. They had to worry about their old grandmother, who seemed sick at the time. She came up with the way for Osama to work. She cut her hair and dressed her like a boy so that she may work. This however is illegal in there contrary. During this time of her life, she was in content danger and fear of being discovered. She worked for a shop owner for a bit, making milk and other stuff. She even attended a church gathering before she was “Drafted” into Bin Laden’s army. She tried to do the stuff there, but she was discovered. Even when she had a friend who tried to help her out, she was found out and put in jail. She was then given to an old man as a wife as punishment for this. Her story is a sad tale, compared to a life like mine. She never got to really relax like I get to. She lived in a non-heated home; she didn’t even have a bed of her own, like I do. Sometimes I wonder if America is out of touch with places like this because we don’t see that here. Not like it don’t happen here though. We have people living in the streets, and in the slums. They are living with little to no food. No. you can’t say that we don’t have the same problems as they do, but we seem to cover it up somehow and look the other way. We pay no attention to troubled lives here in America. I wonder if they saw this movie, if they would be grateful or think how their lives are so similar to the people in Iraq. I guess what I am saying is that we both seem to have problems as nations… and as individuals, our lives seem totally different.
On the other hand, there are people there who live like Amir. Amir lived like us American. Amir had good life as the son of a wealthy Man named Baba. Baba had worked his way up in life from nothing and made things work, but he was never happy with Amir at the time. They had servants who were close friends. Ali being Baba’s childhood friend and Ali’s son, Hassan was Amir’s friend. Both Ali and Hassan was Hazara, a lower class in Iraq. Even with this Amir and Hassan was best of friends but after something happened, that was shattered. The drifted away. When War broke out there, Amir and Baba left for the United States. Amir knows how it is to live on both sides of the spectrum of life, from being rich and in a nice life, to becoming a person who lived in a rundown apartment room. But still, he had a good life. He went to school and became a writer. He became someone who Baba was proud of, but that didn’t stop him by feeling bad about his past mistakes. He went back to Iraq to try to make amends, even when the Taliban was in control. He risked his life to find Hassan’s son and being there, he found out that Hassan was his brother.
If you were to compare Amir and Osama’s lives; they would seem so different. Even though they come from the same land, they are the same people, (I think) but their lives are totally different. She became a slave to a guy for impersonating a boy, while Amir lived in America, even though he came back and got his ass kicked by the Assef and his group of the Taliban. Both of their lives are polar opposites. Even when you compare their lives to mine… they are polar opposites. I live a life of luxury compared to the things they had to endure. The fighting, the loss, everything those two had to go though I never have had to do. We in America seem like we have the best lives here to others in the world. I can now see why so many people want to come here for a new life. They come here thinking everything will be different, everything will be easy. I guess that why we have people in the slums too. We have people who live on the streets, begging or just watching us, richer people go by, probably wondering why we don’t seem to get a rat’s ass about them, why we seem to cast a blind eye from them. Now that I think about it. This seems a lot like things in Osama.
We Americans could learn something from countries like Iraq and other places that are concerted third world countries. The lessons we could get from watching these people, who struggle to live on a daily basis. We would probably lead better lives from all this. More honest peaceful lives if we got anything from these films and Books and stories that show human suffering outside or even inside our own land.
Edited by Rage Nakasa, Dec 4 2008, 06:38 AM.
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Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. New York. RIVERHEAD, 2004.

Osama. Barmak, Siddiq. ICA, 2004.
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