The article "Under Siege, Syrians flee to Lebanon" is about the current conflict going on in Syria. I believe that the intended audience for this article is for Americans, as well as the international community as a whole. I believe that the purpose of this article was to get people to see what is going on in Syria and to get us to want to go help the Syrians. The claim of the article is that the Syrian government is committing cruel acts and are killing and injuring their citizens. Also it claims that the international community is not doing their job to help the citizens. The evidence that I have to support this claim is when the article interviews a man and he says that it was unsafe to go anywhere. One man went to take out the trash and was shot by a sniper. In addition, the article talks about how the international community is doing nothing about the situation in Syria. The article also asks the question why Libyans were given aid last year during their revolution. It later answers itself by saying that it is because there is oil in Libya and not in Syria.
After reading the article I found that the book I choose, Forgotten Fire, had some similarities. For example, In the article the conditions were so bad that Syrians could not even go out of their home. One man went to take out his trash because it smelled so bad in his house and was shot by a sniper. This reminded me of when Vahan and his family had been in their house when soldiers came and shot Diran and Tavel. The two boys were innocent and didn't do anything wrong and they were shot for no real reason other than being Armenian. Another example I found was how the people tried to escape to other countries. For instance, Syrians and escaping to countries like Lebanon and at the end of the book Vahan managed, like other Armenians, to escape to Constantinople where he was no longer prosecuted. The final connection that I found was that in both situations the international didn't respond as greatly as they should have. In Syria's case the international community still has time to prevent many more lives from being taken.
USA Today
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