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This blog will be used in the spring of 2008 by 80+ students at Drexel University to investigate the effects of Iraq on culture and the reverse. Our goal will be to better understand why the US is in Iraq, and to question whether literature can help us on this journey.

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Sunday, April 20, 2008

An attempt to convey a message!

The movie kingdom directed by Peter Berg depicts a story of an American investigation group which is deployed in the middle-east to investigate bomb explosion of an American facility. The attack was carried out by a terrorist group based around the city, with the intension of causing chaos within the community. It was targeted at a group of American families on a park. The main initiator of the explosion watches his plan from a building at a distance to the bomb site. His son records the agony faced by Americans.

This is what the children of Iraqi and Afghan terrorists see everyday when their fathers go to the battle field. This is their day to day experience and by now, they have been trained, and convinced well enough to initiate a similar kind of war in the future. The depression, injustice faced by young children will surely affect their lives when they grow up. The director gives this message to the viewers. Americans will never give up in fighting. The leader of the terrorist group dies at the end of the movie, and his message to his child was, ‘take the revenge, never give up’ which simply means that terrorists will never stop fighting against America. The picture of war we see today will be much similar or even more intense in the near future. This war has influenced directly to the production of this movie. The director makes an attempt to convey this message.

SENASH

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