The individuals in OBAA, Mawi's parents, and my AOW, the author's father and grandmother who were refugees in World War II, are similar. I think they are similar because Mawi's parents were refugees and they both went through their own hardships and still survived. I think the author's family members are similar because they have their own refugee story, but it's from World War II. I think this because in the text it says,"My father and grandmother had survived only because strangers had helped them..." This is showing the author's relatives were going through rough times, but strangers had helped them. Strangers also helped Mawi's parents.
The event in my article that was similar to OBAA include war, world war II and the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea. The title of my article states, "...My Father's World War II Refugee Story" which right away shows that it is related to war. In OBAA it states,"He fled our war-ravaged home a year earlier, driven away by the advancing Ethiopian army." This shows that there was also war going on in the story. Both of these are major events in everyone's story.
The idea in OBAA and my AOW are basically the same thing. The idea is being kind to anyone, it doesn't matter what they look like or if you know them or not, being kind can change someone's life forever. I think this because in OBAA it states, "I had watched him see angels in the least likely places, and wanted nothing more than to be like him." This is showing Mawi admiring tewolde about being kind and respecting towards everyone, and wishing everyone was like that. In my AOW it states,"My father and grandmother had survived only because strangers had helped them..." This shows the author's relatives survived only off the kindess of absolute strangers helping them.
War affects induviduals and societies in very negative ways. War affects society by corrupting everyone in that society. They would have to live through such torture and stress and things that no one should have to go through. It makes everything miserable. War can also change induviduals. It can sometimes change people in a positive way but sometimes in a negative way. People can change in positive ways like Mawi and his family by seeing the angel in everyone. It could change people in negative ways by people not being able to trust anyone or make them traumatized by all the horrible things they've seen. War's affect on anything really is mostly negative because it is such an awful thing no deserves to go through.
