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what happened in 1948 ?

November 2, 2022
By Anonymous

Pain in their eyes that's how my story begins. 1948, that year more than 1 billion people died, 500 thousand women and kids were executed and burned, and the truth was being folded and covered in their fake smiles, nobody is daring to speak up for themselves, it's just that they are afraid to be killed in the most awful way ever. In this set piece which is based on a real story, I tried to express how life looked like in my country. I used Epigraph, foreshadowing, and imagery styles. I also mimicked the style of the author Harrison Bergeron and used the 3rd person point of view, so let's start.

The year was 2042, and most people don't remember what justice and freedom mean, they forgot that being free means to live without being chased- stalked or just to live feeling safe, they forgot when the Israeli soldiers attacked the Palestinians citizens, and killed them, tortured them, and kicked them out of their houses and turned that beautiful area into the most horrifying place people could live in, every day thousands of Palestinian people are killed, thousands of families are crying, a lot of kids their childhood was ruined, all of that and Israel is still lying pretending to be innocent and oppressed one. Walking around the train station in san Francisco Charlotte saw a group of people protesting and holding the Palestine flag and some posters, they were yelling: “ stop pretending to be an angel when you are a freaking pixy demon,  stop killing people and kids for no reason, stop pretending that it is your land when you stole it” charlotte looked at the old lady in tears cause she remembered what happened to her uncle in Ukraine. She kept watching that group and she was impressed by the number of people that started joining them.

A few hours later charlotte arrived home, she went straight to her office and opened the computer, and searched: “ what is happening between Palestinian citizens and Israel soldiers” then she got a bunch of different websites talking about the horrible treatment Palestinians get and the barbaric and cruel acts of the soldiers & an introduction of what is Balfour Declaration. After she opened the first website she stared at the screen in shock cause of what she saw (a young lady was burned with her own kid after being tortured), there were a lot of questions going on in her mind, like why do they need to kill women and kids ?, Why does nobody talk about it? and why did they fight in the first place? She continued reading and researching. 

5 weeks later, charlotte’s manager assigned her to make an article about something happened in the past that is still going on today and deserve to be published in the news to drag people’s attention, the first thing she thought of was the conflict between the palestinians and israel soldiers the one that she read about couple weeks ago, she spent 20 days, she worked really hard, she barely slept and she came up with a wonderful and gigantic article explaining the situation, after she turned it in hoping that it will drag a lot of people’s and her managers and professor's attention at her work place, she got disappointed the managers acted like a robot they didn't care about her work and choose to talk about ukraine, so when charlotte got informed that they didn't pick her, she went directly to talk to them and try to convince them because these is also a very important thing that occurred and nobody talked about but they still rejected her, by saying: “ people don't really care about palestine cause its not powerful and no one would care because it's Arabs' problem”, she got insanely mad at them.

That day after school ended and everybody lifted, including the security, she snuck into the building and put in her work, and removed the Ukraine article. The next day when the responsible people took the article to print it out, the printer and the entire place (the presses) exploded and Charlotte had a car accident, she went into a coma and lost her memory.



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