The boy on the beach Book review

Length: Minimum 1250 words/5 pages (double spaced) Maximum 1750 words/7 pages (excluding cover page and bibliography).

Read Tima Kurdi’s The Boy on the Beach: My Family’s Escape from Syria and our Hope for a New Home which is the 2019-2020 Queen’s Reads selection. Consider the following questions:
1) When Tima Kurdi visited her family who had fled from Syria to Turkey, she says she “began to see the world through a refugee’s eyes” (p. 85). What has her account of her family’s experience conveyed about refugee lives to you?
2) Kurdi writes: “The refugees were victims of terrorism and global geopolitics yet they were increasingly viewed with the same suspicion and hostility as the terrorists they had barely managed to escape” (p. 112) How does this book differ from (or confirm) what you previously understood about refugees, from media accounts or other sources?
3) How does the Canadian government come across in this story?
4) Speaking of the viral photograph of Alan Kurdi, Tima writes that his father Abdullah hoped “it would be the wake-up call to the world, so it will help others” (p. 149). What is your analysis of the circulation and impact of that photo?
WHAT ABOUT A THESIS STATEMENT? Your thesis statement(s) will be related to the questions I have posed above. In other words you aren’t being asked to make an overall argument but rather move through several.
DO
• Offer your opinion and analysis.
• Use the first person (“I argue that…”) if you would like to.
• Recognize that this book tells a really tough story.
• Attend the presentation Tima Kurdi will give at Queen’s March 11 evening
(time TBA) and consider what she has to say about this issue and this book.
• Put this story in the context of other reading you have done about migration and refugee issues in Canada such as the readings for this course.
• Use “ASA CITATION STYLE” for citations, quotations, etc.
• See the Manuscript Formatting section of this website from Purdue
University
• https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/583/01
• Include a cover page and bibliography (excluded from page/word count).