Reflection for "Struggles" by Philip Gourevitch

In struggles I noticed that just like “The Rebellion Within” they also used violence as the answer. What I think will happen if this continues to happen is that more and more people will start to you violence as the answer. When one person wins with violence then the other people will believe that violence does help. Because of this, everyone will start to use it. If at least one group of people starts to use peace and show the world how good it will be with peace, then more people will use peace as the answer. Peace will get nobody hurt and it will make people live their lives happier.

Something that shocked me in the story was when they talked about who was the people that were beaten. It said that the foreigners were all beaten and they were forced out of their homes. Even though they think that by doing this everything will get better it does not mean that it is not rude. They try to take the foreigners out of their country for being different. Some people don’t respect the people that are different to them and I do not think this is right. Also it said that they would beat the people that looked like foreigners. They would look at the people and decide if they were foreigners or not. If they thought that they were foreigners then they would beat them. Innocent people would get beaten and the mob would be racist against the people.

Everyone has to fight through struggles in their life and war isn’t one of them. Everyone has a different life and different problems to fight through in their life and other useless things are in their way. People start to get worried about looking like a foreigner in a different place or they get worried about people killing other people for no reason. These are not the problems that people are supposed to have stopping them from doing other things. People should be able to get through their life without having, as a main problem, useless things. These things can be one little thing to think about but not what ruins a persons life.