I think the central idea of “From War to America by: Christian Luis” is Hope is stronger than fear. I know this because in the text it said, “Hearing a sound like a hand slapping a metal table. The boys and girls of his class (Francois) knew it was an explosion somewhere close. Everybody either tried to make jokes to calm the situation or they cried.” This shows that everyone was unsettled/completely terrified by the war. Later in the text it says, “Power outages became common. Sometimes when Francois or Cedric turned on the faucet no water came out. Food, fuel, and medicine became scarce-money even scarcer.” This is an example of how bad it was for the syrians. The author also stated, “Then one day they received a call that would change their
