This article (innocent child) narrates true events that happened to a lady
who lives in Lebanon with her daughter, Petty. At the beginning, the mother described
a packing scene where that lady decided to travel anywhere to any country where
she could find peace and shelter with her daughter. Her daughter started crying
and begged her not to leave Lebanon thinking that it was her fault for breaking
the toy so that the mother was punishing her by taking such a decision.
However, the mother justified that the
point from their escape was that Lebanon was not a safe place for living and
that she aimed to protect her child from
any kind of harm and be able to afford a better life than her own. Lebanon in
this article was described as a country where citizen were refugees, a place
where freedom and democracy no longer existed, dictatorship and injustice were overwhelming
. This lady had experienced the war feeling where she escaped with her family
to the village for a safer place. She didn't want her child to live the war
experience. She hoped Lebanon would be a place where real security exists,
where religion wasn't the root for the problems, a place where humans wouldn't
be bombarded with politics, cultural
traditions and injustices. But that sense of hope doesn't seem to emerge , so she
decided to escape to a better place. Lebanon and its society limited the capabilities
of a child. It jams little kids’ imaginations into tiny boxes, and no matter
how hard the children tried to get out, somehow they always found their
shoelaces caught in the corner of the box. The second day, the mother woke up
with discomfort feeling that something wrong had befallen her. Her daughter
wanted to go for a school farewell. She gave her a ride and then went back to
continue packing. Suddenly, she heard a bomb near her daughter’s school. She ran quickly hoping her daughter wasn't
the victim. But no one can run away from fate. Like all the children, petty was
another victim of Lebanon terrorist’s acts. This story illustrates that we are
living in a country where humans are victims of religion, politics and
traditions. What a cruel world we are living in? Where could our innocent child
have a future with such cruelty? Happiness no longer exists. In short, this
story reflects the conditions people are experiencing in Lebanon. Lebanon connotes
a country where humans lack their least standards for living that is safety.
This lady describes the current situation where people are escaping from
Lebanon for security; this story narrates true events , and people are
suffering from internal conflicts and wars.
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