A Syrian Refugee Story Summary

Worldwide, there are millions of people that are considered refugees that are mistakenly misunderstood and confused with immigrants. A refugee is a person who leaves his/her country out of fear seeking a better life. In the article, “A Syrian Refugee Story”, by Alex Altman, he informs people first hand as to what and who the world do not pay attention and the troubles people have to seek and live through just to escape their homeland nightmare. In doing so, he using the story about a refugee, Faez al Sharaa, as an appeal to emotions through testimonial evidence as well as logical information pertaining to the overwhelming long process refugees have to go through for a better life and opportunity. The biggest intended audience is those that …show more content…
Reading the story about Faez al Sharaa, how he walked into a war zone every day yet his main priority still remained which was to provide for his family only for one day his life to flash before his eyes, “we felt death upon us and we accepted it”, said Faez al Sharaa, was very saddening and eye opening to who the world really care about. It makes me wonder and question are some lives more valuable than others because I rarely hear anything pertaining to massive killings in foreign countries. Before reading this article as well as other articles about Syria today, my knowledge of Syria’s tragedy of war was very limited. In the world today, the media disseminate information based on facts but it seems to be that certain things are not important or they only give information to make one country look better than the other rather than spreading information for awareness and contribution to help a fallen country. No one deserves to be put through a devastating tragedy of an ongoing war. And as for my country itself, it is known for welcoming others and open to diversity yet they happen to contribute to the numerous killing of innocent individuals in Syria and reluctant to helping others. There is not one person who