Pain in their eyes that's how my story begins. 1948, that year more than 1 billion people died, 500 thousand women and kids were executed and burned, and the truth was being folded and covered in their fake smiles, nobody is daring to speak up for themselves, it's just that they are afraid to be killed in the most awful way ever. In this set piece which is based on a real story, I tried to express how life looked like in my country. I used Epigraph, foreshadowing, and imagery styles, I attempted to write like Vonnegut and mimicked the style of the author Harrison Bergeron and used the 3rd person point of view.

The year was 2042, and most people didn’t remember what justice and freedom meant, they forgot when the Israeli soldiers attacked the Palestinian citizens, killed them, tortured them, kicked them out of their houses, and turned that beautiful area into the most horrifying place people could live in, every day thousands of Palestinian people were killed, thousands of families were crying, a lot of childhoods were ruined. All of that and Israel was still lying pretending to be innocent and oppressed. Walking around the train station in san Francisco Charlotte saw a group of people protesting and holding the Palestine flag and some posters, they were yelling: “ stop killing people and kids for no reason, stop pretending that it is your land when you stole it” Charlotte stared at the nowhere remembering what happened to her uncle in Ukraine. She kept watching that group and she was impressed by the number of people that

started joining, then she headed back to her house 

Half an hour later Charlotte arrived home, she went straight to her office and opened the computer, and searched: “ what is happening in Palestine ?” Then she got a bunch of different websites talking about the horrible treatment Palestinians get and the barbaric and cruel acts of the soldiers and an introduction of what is the Balfour Declaration. After she opened several websites, there were a lot of questions going on in her mind, like why do they need to kill women and kids ?, Why does nobody talk about it? and why did they fight in the first place?

5 weeks later, charlotte’s manager assigned her to make an article about something that happened in the past that deserves to be published in the news, the first thing she thought of was the Palestinian conflict. She spent 20 days, worked really hard, she barely slept and she came up with a wonderful and gigantic article explaining the situation after she turned it in hoping that it will drag a lot of people’s and her professor's attention, she got disappointed, the managers acted like a robot they didn't care about her work and choose to talk about Ukraine, so when charlotte got informed that they didn't pick hers, she went directly to talk to them and try to convince them because these is also a very important thing that occurred and nobody talked about but they still rejected her, by saying: “ people don't really care about Palestine cause it's not powerful and no one would care because it's Arabs' problem”. She got insanely mad at them, that day after work ended and everybody lifted, including the security guards, she snuck into the building and put in her work, and removed the Ukraine article. The next day when the responsible people took the article to print it out, the printer and the entire place (the presses) exploded and Charlotte had a car accident, she went into a coma and lost her memory.