Imagine being wrenched from your home and placed into a tragic space which is filled with hundreds of people, has little to no food or clean drinkable water, no electricity, and is in no way humane. If that scenario is too horrid for you to imagine, then imagine having to move from your home country illegally to another country because the war conditions in your country are just too horrendous. Many people in first world countries may never know what that feels like; however, author Khaled Hosseini in his his novel, A Thousand Splendid Suns, allows readers a look at their first real sense of Afghan people and what their daily lives are actually like. By portraying the main events in Afghanistan’s history over the past three decades, from the communist revolution to the Soviet invasion to the U.S. led war against the Taliban, Hosseini humanizes the migrant and refugee experience by bringing the protagonists Mariam and Laila’s stories to life through impactful literature. Similarly to Hosseini’s work, Der Spiegel, author of “The Deadly Business of Smuggling”, illustrates the type of settings immigrants and refugees are put in in order to live a happy and safe life. “A Thousand Miles In Their Shoes”, an article by The Huffington Post, insinuated that reporters followed up to forty Syrian immigrants on their journey across sees from Turkey to Germany. Whilst on this journey, reporters saw the revolting conditions these human beings were faced …show more content…
However, throughout the article it was not just the reporters commenting on how hard it was for these immigrants.it was the reporters allowing the immigrants to tell their stories is what makes readers perceive this as a human