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“Other people’s lives are so different to mine”

Turtles can fly, set in a Kurdish refugee camp on the border between Turkey and Iraq, and directed by Bahman Ghobadi. The film shows the struggle of the Kurdish people that are stuck under the rule of Saddam and how this affects the lives of the children.
Firstly this essay will examine how the children in Kurdistan are forced to become adults at a young age, then it will analyse how education was considered useless and how that differs to the life of people in a western culture. Finally we will consider how gunfire was encouraged to the children in Kurd.

In the Kurdish camp, the children were often given a lot of responsibility and they were depicted as the stronger ones of the group. The town leaders often asked for the help of satellite.
Satellite is the one who goes out and purchases a town antenna, and he is again the one that is responsible for installing the antenna, yet still after all satellite has done the elders of the village still request of his help in interpreting the American language on the TV. The elders are so
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This shows how warped their views had become towards gunfire. If children were to encourage gunfire in Australia it would be shunned, many people would be horrified to see or hear of any young children playing with guns or

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