Fear Of Being A Refugee Essay

How would it feel knowing that children wake up every morning with their feet in pain and blisters covering their skin. Knowing they have just walked 500 miles and need to walk 500 more just to get safe, this is the daily life of refugee child. Refugees are a problem in Under the Persimmon Tree, by Suzanne Fisher Staples, and in real life. Real life situations have influenced the book in many ways. With Staples being a journalist herself she witnessed some of the acts of being a refugee. Although, this story is fictional, most of the pain that people are going through is still there. She portrayed the refugee camp as bad places for refugee, she shows the pain of walking through Najmah and how being a women as a refugee in a camp is dangerous. Also in real life all these struggles are real.

To illustrate, the idea of refugee camps Staples portrays the camps as a starving place, where food is very scarce. When …show more content…
The character Najmah herself in the book is a refugee. She has been walking many miles on her feet, “I cannot feel my feet, although they are bloody with broken blisters, torn nails, and cracked calluses” (Staples 124). The explains the pain of walking many miles on foot, only being the age of 13. But once they have walked a long time on their feet everyone is very tired and doesn't want to move although they are so close to their camp. Najmah had this delma and stated, “I’m so tired and weak I can barely move” (Staples 124). This is an fictional book but the truth of blistered feet, Broken toe nails, and bleeding are all true. In real life thousands of people feel that they need to escape. But, the only problem is they have to walk on their feet,”fleeing their country walking on swollen feet to a refugee camp” (Ward,Mckay). This is explaining that this part of the book is real. People do have to walk across a whole country just to find shelter in camps that are not quite