Homework: Refugee Crisis in World Literature
Below are ten quotations from Ian Bassingthwaighte's novel Live from Cairo. Choose five of these quotes and then write a brief analysis/commentary for each one. Each analysis should be one-half to three-quarters of a page long and do the following: 1) identifies the narrative context or situation (what is happening and where, who is thinking, speaking, being spoken to, etc.) and 2) explains the quotation's meaning by relating it to some idea or point expressed in the scene it comes from and/or to other scenes or moments in the novel.
Save the finished exam as a Word document with the following title: your last name, Refugee Crisis in World Lit., final exam. Send the Word document to my campus email address by 12:00 P.M. (noon) Tuesday, May 18th.
Choose five from the following ten quotations:
a. ‘Your goal, like mine, is to send every refugee to a safer place. Sound about right? Sadly, that won't happen. Not now. probably not ever' (13).
b. ‘Urgent cases go first. It's the only just way to fill the quota' (55).
c. "Hana envisioned Dalia's pain as a sphere rolling behind her. How else to bear so much, so far? If only Dalia's pain were more square" (69).
d. ‘Only the story felt like yours and Leilah's. What right did I have to that narrative? I wasn't there, not really' (80).
e. "He [Omran] needed to leave. The only home he'd ever had was waiting for him" (120).
f. "‘I'm sorry about your sister,' he [Charlie] said finally. ‘Let's just leave it at that'" (165).
g. ‘The revolution dies in a flowerbed and the people coo at the beauty of it' (295).
h. "‘Would you look at that,' said Hana.
i. ‘I can't watch anymore,' said Michael, but he kept watching'" (300).
j. "Hana was giving her story in return for the one she'd tried to steal that day in the conference room. . . . . Hana wasn't proffering an apology so much as squaring a debt" (314).
k. "‘Any criticism launched at such machinery just disappears in the void.' Charlie spoke as if he was reporting the news and not decrying injustice"
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
a. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
b. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
c. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.