We Are Orphans Here Review

    This essay is bleak and talks about Kushner's experience in Shuafat Refugee Camp with Baha as her guide, a twenty-nine- year-old Palestinian community organizer. The author, as a special guest at the Refugee Camp, shows us what she saw and heard in the first person. As I read about the poor living condition of people there, I sympathized with refugees and felt angry because neither the Palestinian authority nor Israel provides services to the  Refugee Camp, which causes many innocent people die and a lot of social problems, such as crime, jihad, and trash fires. According to the title "We Are Orphans Here", it comes from what Adel said. On the other hand, "Orphan", means a child whose parents are dead, which refers to these refugees without the government's help and protection, forcing to live in tough condition. And the kids here don't seem to have a good future. As for Baha, it can say that he is a hero and he is important to the whole Refugee Camp because he make a great contribution to the Refugee Camp. In the end of the essay, author describes Baha's death in a flat tone but it implies that the entire camp will suffer in his absence and the refugees' fates are dispiriting.