A Reluctant Guerilla Analysis

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The story “A Reluctant Guerilla”, by Nega Mezlekia and the image provided by Ms. Colburn both are about the Ethiopian Civil War called the Ogaden War. They both portray the same message,which is the Ethiopian soldiers were being indifferent to the native citizen of Ogaden,but also have some differences. Nevertheless, a couple of the similarities that both the story and the illustration is that there has been a village that was destroyed, armored vehicles being used to end unarmed citizens lives. and ethiopian soldiers smiling while they to the lives of unarmed civilians with machine guns and machetes. In the following paragraph, I’ll show how the image differs from the reading. In the picture provided by Ms. Colburn, it to a political cartoon

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