Conditions In Real Life Of A Refugee Essay

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INTRO: Imagine living in the time when the Taliban was at large and you are living right in the middle of warfare. in the book under the persimmon tree it shows part of what it is like to be a refugee and how bad the conditions and how crowded they are but in actual refugee camps in real life they are worse Susan fisher staples shows how the Taliban impacts the life of a refugee

body paragraph 1: in the book it tells you about refugee camps and there conditions let me enlighten you on the situation. Susan fisher staples says that the refugee camps are filled with many refugees at most ten people to a tent with little to no food and dirty gross water but only a cup or less. Susan fisher staples also says that the refugees are injured with cuts and large wounds along with bruises because of them trying to get Away from their home. Clearly you can see how bad the conditions are.

Main paragraph 2: in real life the conditions of a refugee camp are horrible here is why. In the refugee camps there are many people thousands actually
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The book's explanation is that the refugee camps have "many people in one living space with little dirty water for them to drink" (staples) but if you were to go into a real refugee camp you would see there are more than fifty people to a living space that have no food and very little water they are similar in the way that there are many people to a tent or living space but they are different because in the book there is five to ten people living in a large tent but in real life there is over fifty people in one living space still they are similar because they have little bit of dirty water but still are different because there are thousands of people with little to no water or food and have families to feed that is why they are similar but are still very

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