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Understanding the experiances of the refuggees makes me understand how hard there journey was and how scary it was. It definitely helps me put things into purspective that the things I compalin about I should not be complaining about because people have it so much harder than me.

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This connected to my understanding of the refugee experience. I understand that their journey to wherever they need to go is dangerous. A lot of people die either from being captured, being put in a dangerous spot, or from sickness. Their life is truly scary, but a lot of this comes down to government collapse/war. They are innocent people.

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The characters' experiences connected to my understanding of the refugee experience through the detail of missing home. The poem "Home" related to the "days from home" section at the beginning of each chapter, which reminded the reader that each refugee had to leave their hime and could never go back.

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The characters' experiences in this story connected to my understanding of the refugee experiences because it gave me a visual depiction and real life examples about the deeper feelings, ideas, and events that actually went down with refugees in detail. It made all my knowledge about refugees and the refugee crisis more clear and accurate.

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The characters' experiences connected to my understanding of the refugee experience because it showed some of the hardships and struggles I knew were associated and part of being a refugee. It also connected to some of the things we talked about earlier in class such as the "Wet-Foot, Dry-Foot" policy.

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The characters' experiences connected to my understanding because it helped me to visualize the experiences of these people and put my knowledge of refugees into a more entertaining way.

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The characters' experiences connected to my understanding of the refugee experience, because I already knew that being a refugee meant that you are forced to leave your country and flee somewhere else. In Refugee, the characters did have to leave their country, and they went through a lot of poverty, which I did know that did happen.

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The characters experiences gave a personal side to the strictly historical POV I had when looking at the refugee experiences. Putting names, identities, hearing how they feel, it all deepens and makes me see the refugees as more human because since we see a more personal vulnerable side rather than the generalized overall strictly textbook side experience, so it makes it more real.

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The characters' experiences bettered my understanding for and what they went through and what they had to do in order to survive. It gives me a better understanding to see what families like theirs suffered through and experienced.

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The experiences connect to my understanding because it showed me the pain and suffering one might go through.

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This connected to my understanding of the refugee experience because it illustrated many of the things I have learned about being a refugee, and its accuracy.

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The characters' experiences in this novel extended my understanding and knowledge of the refugee experience because I knew the basics of things that would happen to refugees at this time, but I didn't know about different places they immigrated to or from and I didn't know as many details about the things they went through and the knowledge and intelligence they needed to have to escape dangerous and overwhelming circumstances.

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The characters' experiences connected to my understanding of the refugee experience because I learned more of how they felt , and how they handled these situations. I got to hear the history from their side of the story and their thoughts.

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The characters' experiences extended my understanding of the refugee experience because it went into more detail and depth of what these people suffered through to better their lives.

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The characters' experiences extended my understanding of the refugee experience because it showed more details and provided a more in-depth look into the dangers they faced and just how truly awful the things they experienced were. It showed the loss, the tough choices, and how they were willing to risk their lives because they deemed it safer than staying put.

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The characters' experiences challenged my understanding of the refugee experience by giving me difficult scenarios to be able to read and understand, and different indirect things and events that would happen. I had to use my knowledge and understanding to a deeper extent to truly be able to understand what these characters were going through.

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The character experiences extended mu understanding because they showed me how harsh conditions really were, and how badly they were really treated.

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The characters experience extends my understanding on the refugee experience because of the details. It was not story told that was all positive, there were very real moments with bad weather conditions and real fears on not knowing what is going to happen in the story that actually happen in real life to refugees that helps put what happened in the story into purspective.

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The character's experiences connect to my understanding of the refugee experience because of their feelings, perspective and communication on events, and the life of truly being a refugee. They go through experiences that have made my understanding more clear and understandable because we as the readers learn about it and see it from a different perspective.

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The imagery really helped me visualize each of their experiences. It extended my thoughts about what life might be like as a refugee. Each of their stories helped me piece up a bit of small details that not a lot of people may know about that life. I could feel the characters' emotions and fears.

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The characters' experiences challenged my understanding of the refugee experience because it connected the lives and stories of many different families from different situations and showed readers how all of these experiences can be similar yet different.

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The characters challenges by understanding of the refugee experience ,because they showed me that country's do not provide as much support as I thought they did.

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The characters' experiences extended my understanding of the refugee experience because I got to learn how these individual families were affected and changed by what they went through and what they had to experience.

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The characters' experiences extended my understanding of the refugee experience because it helped me to think about how traumatizing and difficult it must be. Each character lost a loved one when they were migrating to another country, which helped me to realize that this would make the experience a thousand times more traumatizing than it already was.

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The characters' experiences extended my understanding of the refugee experience, because they helped me explore more in depth of their own experiences in their lives as refugees. I learned how they each had different situations in their families and they all had to leave their own separate ways.

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The characters' experiences extended my understanding of their refugee experience because I heard the fear and what they thought. I see how they felt and how horrible it was for them to go through, and how many challenges occur and problems they must face.

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The characters' experiences extended my understanding because it showed personal stories and not just "in general" things (if that makes sense). Learning more about the personal experiences each person had in this story made it more detailed which gave me more insight on the things that happen/happened.

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this challenged my understanding of the refugee experience by showing me what these refugees had to go through and how little help and support that they had. It gave me a better look on how countries shut them out and how they truly just want to have a better life and aren't leaving their countries because they want to but because they would be in danger if they stayed.

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The characters' experiences challenged my understanding of the refugee experience, because I didn't really understand why there were bad people on the ships who were taking them to a different country. There were some good soldiers on the ships, but I didn't understand why they didn't try getting rid of the bad ones. It was also challenging to understand how the families had to separate, in order to get where they needed to go.

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The characters' experiences challenged my understanding of the refugee experience because I did not realize the amount of times that they had to be housed, or jailed, in refugee camps. Specifically with Mahmoud's family, they went to a refugee camp in almost every country they traveled through, and this challenged muy understanding of a refugee's journey.

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The character in the story I found most powerful was Josef. He had to fight long and hard to keep his family safe. Josef's death shows us the reality of the Holocaust.

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The characters' experiences challenged my understanding of the refugee experience because it shows the diversity among the refugees and their reasons for fleeing. Before, it was harder to try and image all of the different things they were experiencing and enduring, and so reading about the differences and the varying struggles challenged my previous image of it.

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The characters' experiences challenged my understanding of the refugee experience because it gave me more to think about. Each page left a cliffhanger and that is what refugees face everyday: a day wondering how much longer they will survive.

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Reading and learning about these speficic characters experience opened my mind to seeing the vunerable, humanity side of these people who we usually dont learn persoanl info about. By listening to their stories and hearing it from their own mouths, throguh their eyes, it makes me look at the refugee experience in a deepened personal way i never allowed myself to see it as. It extened my understanding, because i found a new found respect for this group of people now that i hear a day to day situation for them from them.

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Characters challenged my understanding of the refugee experiance because having the clif hanger at the end gave me a lot ot think about and understand. Telling the stories of three different families showed me how similar but different their story and journey can be.

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The character's experiences extend my understanding of the refugee experience because it gave a different perspective of what truly was going through the refugee's/their families minds throughout the process.

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The characters' experiences challenged my understanding of the refugee experience because I did not understand or know how many problems occur while they were trying to get away from danger and come to safety. They have many obstacles to face and have hard times and risk a lot to go to safety.

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I found the story of Josef the most powerful. I thought his was the most powerful because he had to step up and be the "man" of his family when his father was unable and he had to put his mother and sister first, the part of his story that made me think this was when his mother was only able to buy the freedom of one child and he let Ruthie be saved before himself.

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I think Josef's story was the most powerful out of all of these characters. He was the main character, and fought the hardest battles of all of them. As a child, he learned new life skills through his time being alive, and he was able to learn how to defend and fight for his family best, which is really impressive and inspiring for someone his age in circumstances like his.

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Josef's story stuck out to me the most because I never knew much about the ships like the St. Louis. It surprised me that Nazis were under the ship. It helped my understanding of the stress a Jewish refugee could face everyday.

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Josef is the story I found myself sympathizing and connecting to the most because Josef's story emphasizes how the trauma of being a refugee forces a child to grow up far sooner than they should have to, expediting their coming of age and that is the saddest part to me about being a refugee. They dont get a childhood, they dont get any of those things they have to be an adult and dont get to live their life as a person of their age would, and all the stories we read about applies to that but Josefs really thr most.

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I found Jospehs story the most powerful because as a kid we all enjoyed being a kid and did not want to grow up but Joseph had to step up to the plate at a young age and chose to do everything he could to protect his family. Having his die at the end in the concentration camp shows how bad the Holocaust really was.

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Josefs story was the most powerful to me because he had to see and hear many things a child shouldnt have to, and I get a better understanding of how hard this is for refugee children, especially Josef who had to take care and parent his parents because they needed his help, and helping his sister, and everyone else around him the best he could.

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I found Josef's story the most powerful because of how much loss he endured and how much he survived and went through during his time on earth. He was so young and wanted to be grown and had to be grown for his family and their circumstances. He always put his family over everything.

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The character's experience challenge my understanding of the refugee experience because before I was not able to see how the people truly felt throughout the process and what they were seeing. We as the readers mostly read stories from not their perspective, so it was interesting to see how they truly felt.

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The characters' experiences challenged my understanding as I have not personally had an experience like theirs I was faced with the challenge of trying to make a decision for them, although I was not in their shoes and didn't understand their situation emotionally.

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I think I found Josef's story to be the most powerful. While reading, just seeing all of the sacrifices he had to make and how he was forced to take the role of his father truly showed how the violence can impact children, but not to say the other stories also don't provide great insight. And then at the end of the story, when we learn about what happened to Josef and his mother and how Ruthie was the only one who ended up surviving was really moving.

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I found Isabel's story to be most powerful because she witnessed her best friend die right in front of her. The other refugee families lost people they loved but we are not certain that these people died, and if they did die they did not die infront of their family.

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I found that Mahmoud's story was the most powerful, because he went through one of the most toughest situations. He lost his little sister in the middle of his journey, and he had to stay with his mother. The most powerful thing is that he never gave up. No matter what happened to his family members, he never gave up on trying to live the best life possible. He was very brave and did the best that he could to save himself and his family.

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The character story that I found the most powerful was Josef. I chose Josef because he goes through the experience of what a child truly has to go through as being a refugee and made a lot of sacrifices along the way for his family and the future.

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The characters experiences challenged my understanding because it allowed me to put myself in their shoes (which i hadnt done before) which really puts things in perspective on how scary the whole situation really is. It challenged my understanding because i didnt think refugees had it as bad as they actually do.

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All of the character's in the story were very powerful and strong, but for me hearing the stories of Mahmoud were very challenging and new for me to learn and hear, I have never learned of an experience like his so it was new and shocking to hear about.

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The characters' experiences extended by understanding of the refugee experience because it shows it from a persons perspective who is a refugee. So you see how they feel and everything they are experiencing.

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The characters' experiences challenged my understanding of the refugee experience because it showed you what their life was really like. It also showed how they were getting no help.

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Josef's story was the most powerful to me because you see all he has to go through. He had to give up a lot of things throughout the story. He stands out to me the most because of all his experiences.

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The characters' experiences connect to my understanding of the refugee experience because I already knew that refugees had it rough. This proves that by reading all of the characters stories and seeing what they had to go through

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the characters experiences helped me understand the refugee experience because saying it out loud, moving countries should seem somewhat easy. however, these people face alot of torubles throughout the way, and its not as simple as it seems.

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These characters experiences extended my understanding of the refugee experience because, like the connection padlet, it made me realize all they have to go through just for safety or to survive.

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these experiences challenged my understanding of the refugee experience because it showed me how being a refugee is actually like, and what the cost of survival can be.

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Although all of the characters stories were touching to me, I found Isabel's story most powerful. Isabel sacrificed the thing she loved the most, her trumpet, just so she can hop on the boat with her best friend. her baby brother was almost born in the middle of the ocean, their boat was made of resources that couldnt float too long in the water, and her best friend died on the way. She is so young and it makes me feel for the young refugees who have to actually go through this in real life.