Civilization Is Gone Poem

In the passage of From Aleppo, tales of hardship and bloodshed. ‘Civilization is gone’ by Molly Hennessy- Fiske, this summarizes the essence of what people faced during the war, while the men were in the army protecting the country. This passage is quite intense of what they had to do in order to survive. Everybody was facing poverty and hard times. In paragraph 2, “ We are here, you can’t sleep because we are exploding all day around you, you can’t move, any small light we can target,” This is nerve-racking for the people who are constantly listening bouncing bullets, explosions and “ warplanes with machine guns fly all day”. Children and Adults live in fear even when they are sleeping. There are no more silent nights. They no longer feel

He has rigged chargers for his cellphone and other devices to a car battery and mounted a solar panel to his balcony” they were forced to live in these conditions. They had to adapt to the changes by living limited utilities. That’s their way of survival. This made me think of how many people including myself, take advantage of having electricity. We don’t realize how much we use electricity on a daily basis If that was taken away from us, we would already feel “ aw man” i already miss it. We take it for granted. We use it for many purposes such as wifi, light and air conditioning. When it’s winter time, Etaky asked his grandmother “what will they do for heat”. “ Civilization is gone,”, he said. Where society,culture and means of permanent survival is gone, vanished or disappeared. This really makes you think that war affect everyone and not soldiers. This really stunned me when you can “see children with crayons in their hands, dead.” This was unexpected, nobody thought this would happen otherwise they could’ve prepared for the war. Its saddening that this is actually happening to these people. Seeing “bodies everywhere” makes the atmosphere more eerie and frightening. Nobody want to see dead bodies that they know or seen them