Guantanamo boy
Novel by Anna Perera
Guantanamo boy is a Novel written by Anna Perera and is set just after 9/11.Guantanamo boy is a story seen through the eyes of Khalid a normal 15 year old boy living in Rochdale, England he’s a typical 15 year old boy who enjoys playing football and video games. The only difference between him and a typical British boy is he’s Muslim.He has never visited Turkey or Pakistan where his parents are from and he thinks of himself as no different from anyone else in Rochdale. But one day when Khalid's family take a trip to Pakistan to visit his Mum's family he’s kidnapped and imprisoned in Guantanamo bay for suspicion of being a terrorist, without trial. Even though the story is fictional its most important element is true. Guantanamo bay has had many muslim teens imprisoned there. …show more content…
Khalid was like every other teenage boy from england except for the fact he was from a muslim family. When there was little suspicion that Khalid may have been planning something because he was playing a game called Bomber One and he was muslim he was kidnapped by the CIA and taken to Guantanamo bay. I was disgusted to read how Khalid was tortured into making up things like he was a terroist so he could be arrested for terrorism.An example of this from the book is when the interrorgator says “admit it you’re twenty two and a member of al-Quada”. Khalid didn't commit any acts of terrorism but because he was born into a muslim family it made him a terrorist. I was even more disgusted though when i found out things like this happen in real life. Innocent men and women kidnapped and then imprisoned and tortured because they were “terrorist” when really there just from a muslim culture. Then after years of living in a 3x3m cell block they are found to be innocent and leave with mental and physical scars that will affect them for the rest of their lives. This relates to another theme in the book,
Novel by Anna Perera
Guantanamo boy is a Novel written by Anna Perera and is set just after 9/11.Guantanamo boy is a story seen through the eyes of Khalid a normal 15 year old boy living in Rochdale, England he’s a typical 15 year old boy who enjoys playing football and video games. The only difference between him and a typical British boy is he’s Muslim.He has never visited Turkey or Pakistan where his parents are from and he thinks of himself as no different from anyone else in Rochdale. But one day when Khalid's family take a trip to Pakistan to visit his Mum's family he’s kidnapped and imprisoned in Guantanamo bay for suspicion of being a terrorist, without trial. Even though the story is fictional its most important element is true. Guantanamo bay has had many muslim teens imprisoned there. …show more content…
Khalid was like every other teenage boy from england except for the fact he was from a muslim family. When there was little suspicion that Khalid may have been planning something because he was playing a game called Bomber One and he was muslim he was kidnapped by the CIA and taken to Guantanamo bay. I was disgusted to read how Khalid was tortured into making up things like he was a terroist so he could be arrested for terrorism.An example of this from the book is when the interrorgator says “admit it you’re twenty two and a member of al-Quada”. Khalid didn't commit any acts of terrorism but because he was born into a muslim family it made him a terrorist. I was even more disgusted though when i found out things like this happen in real life. Innocent men and women kidnapped and then imprisoned and tortured because they were “terrorist” when really there just from a muslim culture. Then after years of living in a 3x3m cell block they are found to be innocent and leave with mental and physical scars that will affect them for the rest of their lives. This relates to another theme in the book,