BUYING RATIONS IN KABUL BY ELIZA GRISWOLD

SITI SURAYA BT NORDINMOHD FAHMI B AZIZULLAH

IKRAM MUZAKKIR B MOHAMADWAN MOHD NAJAT WAN NAWANG

MOHD NAKHAIE ABD MALEK

POET’S BACKGROUND

• Eliza Griswold (born February 9, 1973) is an award-winning American journalist and poet.

• Griswold has written widely on the "war on terror”

• War on terror is the campaign against al-Qaeda and other militant organizations with the purpose of eliminating them.

The Uzbek boys on Chicken Streethave never had enough to eat.They stock from shelf to shining shelfthese G.I. meals, which boil themselvesin added water (bottled, please).In twenty minutes, processed cheeseon jambalaya, followed bya peanut-butter jamboree

Buying Rations in Kabulby Eliza Griswold

• The boys, polite,advise on which we might prefer —beef teriyaki, turkey blight —and thank us twice for bringing peaceas, meals in hand, we leave the store.Of course they know that any peacethat must be kept by forcecontains another name. It’s war.

• The first two lines tell the readers about the boys in Uzbek suffers because of the war.

• They do not have enough food until they have to eat G.I meal

• The last lines can be interpreted as there is no efficient way to maintain peace by “force” because that would just be another way of saying war.

THEME

• Hardship of life of war children.…never had enough to eat. (line 2)

-Because of the war, they do not have enough food.….these G.I. meals, which boil themselves (line 4)

-The children has to eat G.I. meals because there are no proper meals in their country.

-G.I meals is the ready to eat meal in can that has been used in a field conditions where organized food facilities are not available.

• Appearance VS Reality– ….The boys, polite (line 9)• The boys polite and giving advice to the

soldier but he actually afraid of them.

– ….and thank us twice for bringing peace (line 12)• It is look like they are bringing food,

proper meal and peace but they actually are army force bringing so-called-peace but harm to their country.