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- Marina:

Marina was an innocent mother, a nice caring mother who wanted to help let her child through the border to Israel. She was also strong, she came to palestine to fight for Palestinian cause to gain land back.

She fell in love with an activist who was then jailed and her father was an american who hated to go back to palestine to face his fears.Her relationships both help her and terrorizes her but she is able to stay strong times of darkness.

"Kif halak George,"- (242)

"she'd have to beg, plead, get down on her knees. she hated having to do it; she liked looking away as she presented her documents, getting through, no arguments, no contact , no humiliation. nothing personal. she had always sworn that if it came to total closure, she would never beg, never degrade ehre self that way." (22)

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The place where the event happen in the story is in Palestine and Israel's border, the story in the book is happening in today's world in Palestine and Israel. The event is happening currently, it started with when Israel kicked out the Palestine citizen from their home (country) and they lost their own place and they're trying to get back, and the huge violent fight began between Palestine and Israel with the land. Its very important to know the setting of the story because then you could understand more specifically to the real today's fight between this two country and could see that the cause and effects of political, economy and people feeling and though of this fight. We could know how the fight are going and how people thinks and what they want by knowing the setting. There is a lot of different mood in the story and could see a lot different type of feeling and situation by reading and understanding the story and the setting. The time of when the story took place was probably when Palestine was still considered as a territory of Israel's and that there was a conflict about who fought over what land. "...the two suicide boys, dressed up like Israeli soldiers, who packed their kit bags with explosives and got on the buses and blew themselves up." (14). This supports the fact that there are riots and fights going on in the borders between Israel and Palestine, most likely about the argument over land control.

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Marina was an innocent mother, a nice caring mother who wanted to help let her child through the border to Israel.

She was also strong, she came to palestine to fight for Palestinian cause to gain land back.

She fell in love with an activist who was then jailed and her father was an american who hated to go back to palestine to face his fears.

Her relationships both help her and terrorizes her but she is able to stay strong times of darkness.

"Kif halak George,"- (242)

"she'd have to beg, plead, get down on her knees. she hated having to do it; she liked looking away as she presented her documents, getting through, no arguments, no contact , no humiliation. nothing personal. she had always sworn that if it came to total closure, she would never beg, never degrade herself that way." (22)

"She was still living only because going on living was what you did. But she had no interest in it. Her heart felt dark and empty. She couldn't suppress the feeling that she was responsible. She was his mother . This bathroom was the little prison cell where she came to hide her guilt."

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Character Personality - Marina

Marina was an innocent mother, a nice caring mother who wanted to help let her child through the border to Israel.

She was also strong, she came to palestine to fight for Palestinian cause to gain land back.

She fell in love with an activist who was then jailed and her father was an american who hated to go back to palestine to face his fears.

Her relationships both help her and terrorizes her but she is able to stay strong times of darkness.

"Kif halak George,"- (242)

"She'd have to beg, plead, get down on her knees. she hated having to do it; she liked looking away as she presented her documents, getting through, no arguments, no contact , no humiliation. nothing personal. she had always sworn that if it came to total closure, she would never beg, never degrade ehre self that way." (22)

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In the beginning of the novel, Marina is an ordinary mother from Palestine with her baby Ibrahim with a mission to cross the border of Israel. However, Ibrahim passes away in the border and Marina has to deal with the death of her baby. As the story progresses, Marina realizes that the death of her baby has manipulated many people of Palestine to think that Israel should be blamed for their inhumanity. An evidence of this would be the ceremony held for the death of Ibrahim Marina herself too sees the death of her son as a fault from the Israelis alone. However she then realizes that it was the political burdens that are causing Doron's actions. An evidence would be “She was furious with the soldier. She couldn't bear the thought of him. But there was no denying one thing. He had been trying to be on their side. She could never admit it to Hassan, because Hassan could never allow it to be true. His whole world was built on another point of view” (157)." This quote explains that Marina starts seeing the aspects of human nature of a different point of view, unlike from the part where she only sees that Doron should be blamed because he is an Israeli and nothing more. However it doesn't end here just yet. After the death of her father George, she has lost almost all of her family relations in Palestine, with the exception of Hassan (which their marriage is beyond repair). She goes from being a strong Palestinian supporter against the Israelis from the beginning of the story to the point where she has to choose to return to the United States to safety or to stay in Palestine to honor her dad and her ancestral land.

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In the beginning of the novel, Marina is an ordinary mother from Palestine with her baby Ibrahim with a mission to cross the border of Israel. However, Ibrahim passes away in the border and Marina has to deal with the death of her baby. As the story progresses, Marina realizes that the death of her baby has manipulated many people of Palestine to think that Israel should be blamed for their inhumanity. Marina herself too sees the death of her son as a fault from the Israelis alone. However she then realizes that it was the political burdens that are causing Doron's actions. An evidence would be “She was furious with the soldier. She couldn't bear the thought of him. But there was no denying one thing. He had been trying to be on their side. She could never admit it to Hassan, because Hassan could never allow it to be true. His whole world was built on another point of view” (157)." This quote explains that Marina starts seeing the aspects of human nature of a different point of view.

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In the beginning of the novel, Marina is an ordinary mother from Palestine with her baby Ibrahim with a mission to cross the border of Israel. However, Ibrahim passes away in the border and Marina has to deal with the death of her baby. As the story progresses, Marina realizes that the death of her baby has manipulated many people of Palestine to think that Israel should be blamed for their inhumanity. Marina herself too sees the death of her son as a fault from the Israelis alone. However she then realizes that it was the political burdens that are causing Doron's actions. An evidence would be “She was furious with the soldier. She couldn't bear the thought of him. But there was no denying one thing. He had been trying to be on their side. She could never admit it to Hassan, because Hassan could never allow it to be true. His whole world was built on another point of view” (157)." This quote explains that Marina starts seeing the aspects of human nature of a different point of view.

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In the beginning of the novel, Marina is an ordinary mother from Palestine with her baby Ibrahim with a mission to cross the border of Israel. However, Ibrahim passes away in the border and Marina has to deal with the death of her baby. As the story progresses, Marina realizes that the death of her baby has manipulated many people of Palestine to think that Israel should be blamed for their inhumanity. Marina herself too sees the death of her son as a fault from the Israelis alone. However she then realizes that it was the political burdens that are causing Doron's actions. An evidence would be “She was furious with the soldier. She couldn't bear the thought of him. But there was no denying one thing. He had been trying to be on their side. She could never admit it to Hassan, because Hassan could never allow it to be true. His whole world was built on another point of view” (157)." This quote explains that Marina starts seeing the aspects of human nature of a different point of view.

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Marina was an innocent mother, a nice caring mother who wanted to help let her child through the border to Israel.

She was also strong, she came to palestine to fight for Palestinian cause to gain land back.

She fell in love with an activist who was then jailed and her father was an american who hated to go back to palestine to face his fears.

Her relationships both help her and terrorizes her but she is able to stay strong times of darkness.

"Kif halak George,"- (242)

"she'd have to beg, plead, get down on her knees. she hated having to do it; she liked looking away as she presented her documents, getting through, no arguments, no contact , no humiliation. nothing personal. she had always sworn that if it came to total closure, she would never beg, never degrade ehre self that way." (22)

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There are more than one climax in the story.

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Ibrahim's death caused the Palestinians to rebel against the Jewish Department. The Palestinians blame Israeli inhumanity for the child's death, while the Israeli government moves quickly to spin the details of the Shuhada incident in its favor. Making matters more is the fact that Marina is the wife and daughter of two very important men on the Palestinian political front. Marina's husband Hassan Hajimi is currently in an Israeli prison for his alleged terrorist activities with the rebels group. Known as an outspoken activist for the Palestinian cause, Hassan has now lost his only child. That he will redouble his efforts against Israeli control is a possibility or perceived threat. Marina's father, Dr. George Raad, a Boston cardiologist and famous writer, has used his platform to defend the Palestinian people; his more recent writings have been critical of the Palestinian authorities who George believes have become more concerned with their own aggrandizement over true Palestinian liberation. George left his former Palestine homeland many years ago, but he still remained dedicated to the cause. When the novel opens, he is still in Boston, but upon the death of Ibrahim, he returns to the West Bank (to Ramallah) to support his daughter in her bereavement.

2) In the middle of his speech, George is interrupted by shouts of the crowd; however, the crowd is not cheering for him. Through the crowd word has spread that Hassan is to be freed. Ahmed has already talked about the release and planned the information to be spread. George is then upstaged by Ahmed, whose success in securing Hassan's release results in the redoubled support of the Palestinian people.

3) George goes to search Ahmed, and he discovers that there was an assassination attempt on George's life. Now very weak from his heart condition, George is practically incoherent by the time he finds Ahmed. After confronting his former friend, George collapses and is rushed to the hospital in Jerusalem (the very hospital where Marina wanted to take Ibrahim). He spends his final hours in the Jewish hospital wrapped in Hebrew-marked bed-clothes.

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In the beginning of the novel, Marina is an ordinary mother from Palestine with her baby Ibrahim with a mission to cross the border of Israel. However, Ibrahim passes away in the border and Marina has to deal with the death of her baby. As the story progresses, Marina realizes that the death of her baby has manipulated many people of Palestine to think that Israel should be blamed for their inhumanity. Marina herself too sees the death of her son as a fault from the Israelis alone. However she then realizes that it was the political burdens that are causing Doron's actions. An evidence would be “She was furious with the soldier. She couldn't bear the thought of him. But there was no denying one thing. He had been trying to be on their side. She could never admit it to Hassan, because Hassan could never allow it to be true. His whole world was built on another point of view” (157)." This quote explains that Marina starts seeing the aspects of human nature of a different point of view.