HW: 32, Baghdad Burning

The foreward of the novel Baghdad Burningby Ahdaf Soueif is and introduction of the blogger named Riverbend and her experience with the Iraq war. She is a women living in the mist of all the action. She is experiencing the war first hand yet she is quite often receiving e mails and messages from people who fully support the war. She believes that those people who are sending these e mails are doing that because they know that they are behind a computer screen safe and all they can get back from it is another comment (Soueif vii). During this whole thing Riverbend is sharing this experience with her brother. This is a blog where she talks about her experiences with the blog world and people have a chance to comment back with their opinions. This book is basically her blog in novel form.

The introduction is written by James Ridgeway and he is introducing the young female blogger who goes by the name of Riverbend. It is described as a “girl blog from Iraq” (Ridgeway xi) He states that this novel about her blog will make you think and her war becomes your war (Ridgeway xii). Ridgeway also says that there is a lot of talk about politics in this novel and some of it is criticizing our current president George Bush. This novel is supposed to be a great read and some say that once your start reading, you will not be able to stop.

 I don’t remember much from when the war started in 2003 but I do remember that we were learning about all the past wars in my social studies classed and it was brought up that we were at war with another country. All I can remember thinking was that it was so weird that we are going through all of the horrible things that I have been learning about the past wars. It was all happening in my lifetime, which I never thought it would. Now I think back and I realize that it will be my children who will be learning about the “war on terror” in their social studies classes.

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