The car skids to a stop, and Youssef, Fatima (with Hana), Mahmoud: Kilis, Turkey 2015, 2 days from home, Mahmoud: Izmir, Turkey 2015, 4 days from home, Mahmoud: Izmir, Turkey 2015, 11 days from home (1), One week after the boat to Greece was originally supposed to arrive, the smuggler tells, Mahmoud: Izmir, Turkey 2015, 11 days from home (2), Mahmoud: Somewhere on the Mediterranean Sea 2015, 11 days from home (1), Mahmoud: Somewhere on the Mediterranean Sea 2015, 11 days from home (2), Fatima continues to sob at having given away Hana, and, Mahmoud: Somewhere on the Mediterranean Sea 2015, 11 days from home (3). It wasnt my mother and father, and you, Lito. A rickety-looking raft made out of wooden shipping pallets and inner tubes raised a bedsheet sail, and as it caught the wind, the villagers on the beach cheered. And we dont need a fugitive on board. Ivn looked at him funny, but only Isabel saw it. All we have now are two backpacks and our phones. The car skids to a stop, and Youssef, Fatima (with, Mahmoud: Izmir, Turkey 2015, 11 days from home (1), Mahmoud tells the man that the family has nowhere to go, and that his sister, Mahmoud: Somewhere on the Mediterranean Sea 2015, 11 days from home (1), He then hears Fatima scream out, and watches as she struggles to lift a crying, for help, but the dinghy isnt slowing down. Refugee by Alan Gratz Published by Scholastic Press on 2017 Genres: Immigration and Emigration Pages: 338 Mahmouds father kept their papers tucked into his pants under his shirt, along with all of their moneythe only other things they owned now besides two phones and two chargers. It took only two tries to get the scrawny calico kitten to come out from under the pink cinder- block house and eat from Isabel Fernandezs hand. Along with Isabel and Mahmoud, he is one of the books three protagonists. But as relieved as he was, he knew they still had so very far to go. Mahmoud froze. It was a constant refrain in Castros lengthy speeches. Continue reading. No, no, her mother said. WaleedWaleed, are you okay? Mahmoud asked, turning him around. LitCharts Teacher Editions. The Nazis had taken all this from them, from him, and now he and the passengers on the ship were taking it back. He rolled out two matsone for him and the other for Waleed. A young woman staggered past them, clutching her stomach and looking green. So we have money! Oh, and I also need you to help me carry these back. She worked her way to one of the cars stuck in the riot, an old American Chevy with chrome tail fins, still around from before the Revolution in the 1950s. Mahmoud is 13 years old in 2015, and lives in Aleppo, Syria with his father Youssef, his mother Fatima, his 10-year-old brother Waleed, and his infant sister Hana. Mahmoud couldnt draw a breath. Not that hes counting. The Brownshirt suddenly turned serious. They needed a place to hide from Hitler. Josef and Ruth clung to each other, terrified and wet-faced with tears. We didnt ask you to come along! Its our gasoline! Isabels father yelled. And why do you need gasoline so badly? To leave Cuba before my father is arrested. The fisherman wiped his lips on the back of his hand. Josef shuddered. The original text plus a side-by-side modern translation of. The way the content is organized, One of the three protagonists of the book, alongside. thinks that he will never forget the fear of being so powerless in that moment. Lito shook his head. An hour later, they were met on the road by four soldiers waving for them to stop. This incident later haunts Mahmoud, as he wishes that he had chosen not to remain invisible in order to help the boy. They were all going to Cuba to escape the Nazis, and now that they were finally away from the threats and violence that followed them everywhere in Germany, there was singing and dancing and laughter. She trades her trumpet for gasoline in order to get the boat to start. Ahmed and Nedhal werent his friends. The kittens nose sniffed eagerly at the air, and it meowed. It demolishes an entire outside wall. LitCharts Teacher Editions. Visas. Papa shook his head too quickly. Klaus had been wearing the same uniform this boy did now. Theyll come for me. Everyone was quiet at that. Khalid was a Shia Muslim in a country of mostly Sunni Muslims. Refugee Character Analysis Josef Landau Josef is a 13-year-old Jewish boy living in Germany in the 1930s. Mom! Mahmoud yelled. Renata and Evelyne jumped out from behind a lifeboat and grabbed Josef by the hand. Evelyne and Renata were the genuine names of two sisters who came on the St. Louis, and they were the only ones permitted to disembark in Cuba since their father already resided there and had significant relations to the local authorities. What she heard instead was the sound of breaking glass. His gas-powered fishing boat rocked gently at a little pier nearby. Fatima had put on a black long-sleeved dress and a pink flowery hijab that covered her head and shoulders. A tag already exists with the provided branch name. She hadnt gone nearly catatonic like Waleed, but at some point it had gotten bad enough that she just stopped talking about it. Josef listened, straining his ears in the dark. Down with Fidel! Papi! Isabel cried. Back when they were Germans. PDFs of modern translations of every Shakespeare play and poem. But a few years ago, in 1989, the Soviet Union had fallen, and Cuba had hit rock bottom. Mahmouds mother was carrying their school backpacks, and she traded them for Hana. Also, it is asked, How does Mahmoud travel to Germany? Youre not much to look at, are you, kitty? Isabel said. He felt tears come to his eyes and wiped them away. It was hard to tell anymore. Complete your free account to request a guide. Which country are Mahmoud and his family in at the end of the chapter? Mahmoud didnt like the sound of that, eitherto him, smuggler meant illegal, and illegal meant dangerous. It was like somebody was sitting on his chest. Mahmouds heart was racing, his ears still buzzed, and his shoulder burned, but they were alive. That is when incidents like this occur, and the world calls the Cuban government cruel and inhumane. Pick it back up! They become friends with Josef and Ruthie in Refugee. GitHub export from English Wikipedia. The German train car didnt feel any different than the Jewish car. Which side do you support? The question was as dangerous as his gun. How else am I going to play Angry Birds? He was joking again. He stepped back and held her at arms length. His shoulder ached and his chest still seared with every hard, desperate breath, but the only thing that mattered now was getting to his mother. Josef sacrifices himself when his family is refused refuge in Cuba, in order for his sister, Ruth, to be saved from the extermination camps. They left as suddenly as they had come, and Josef and his sister and mother huddled together on their knees in the middle of the room. They used it on the door handles of cabins up and down the passageway on A-deck, then hid around the corner and waited. People caught criticizing Fidel Castro were thrown into jail and never heard from again. Chabela, get down from there! Isabel ignored them both and turned this way and that, calling out for her father. He dragged Waleed with him toward the front door, but Waleed pulled back. And together well find her, yes? Gratz highlights parallels between Mahmouds, Isabels, and Josefs stories: all three are locked in oppressive and dangerous situations. Hours later, the train pulled in to Hamburg Central Railway Station. Nothing else mattered in that moment but air. They had gotten up early and it had been a stressful day, and soon Ruthie was asleep in Mamas lap, and Mama dozed with her. Josef Landau, Isabel Fernandez, and Mahmoud Bisharaare the primary protagonists of Refugee. Left with no other choice, the family embarks and rides through the pouring rain headed for Greece. Each one of these characters were refugees, each with a differant and unique story. His papa looked nothing like the man whod been dragged away from their home six months ago. He left the compartment quietly and walked along the corridor past the other Jewish families in their compartments. He looked around manically, like there were spies everywhere. What do you think youre doing? the older policeman barked. Did no one else see the Nazi flag overhead as we came on board? Will you not go to your own sons bar mitzvah, then? Josefs mother and Ruthie were already dressed in their nice Shabbos dresses. One of the girls had found a long piece of string and was dangling it over the side, tickling the noses of passengers who were sleeping in chairs down on A-deck. Good and bad things happened either way. Thats when theyll snatch us. Yell if you see someone coming, Renata said breathlessly. She ran toward Mahmoud and embraced him, Waleed, and Hana. Where are you going? the soldier at the window asked. Ivn plopped to the dusty ground beside Isabel. The guards stand down, unable to stop Mahmoud without causing a fight. Then she wailed even harder and louder. It was a salsa tune she liked to play, but this time she listened past the music. Im a man now. And when those soldiers said one of us could go free and the other would be taken to a concentration camp, Josef said, Take me.. They endure false alarms like this for a week straight, returning dejectedly each time to an abandoned mall that offers shelter. Isabels mother, almost nine months pregnant, was the only one not helping to carry the boat. Throughout history, there have been several instances of forced expulsions or individuals leaving for their lives or a better life. Six months and eleven days! the Brownshirt said. And dont ever do that again, the Hitler Youth told Josef. We cant stay here. Amara, she said. This route crosses a country border, Google Maps told them, marking the alert with a little yellow triangle. I have to find him! Chabela! her grandfather cried. Abbas was quoted in the three dailies stating: "I have decided to take national, legal and financial measures to protect our national project.". Fidel Castro had said that anyone who wanted to leave was welcome to go, but that was hours ago. Cuban music that everybody seemed to hear except her. She lifted the trumpet to her lips. Change). There wont be enough men there to form a minyan! Papa said. Once you were in one of the EU countries, though, like Greece or Hungary or Germany, you could apply for asylum and be granted official refugee status. Random death from a fighter jets missile or a soldiers rocket launcher might come at any moment, when you least expected it. She was almost to Papis outstretched arms when she saw her fathers eyes go wide. But, the driver stops the car and points a gun at them, demanding almost all of the rest of their money. Mahmoud had bristled. More of them wore the brown shirts and red swastika armbands of the Sturmabteilung, Adolf Hitlers storm troopers. Josefs mother and father were there too, lying on the floor at the feet of the Brownshirts. Get washed up. Mahmouds mother, Fatima Bishara, held her pink iPhone in one hand, and in her free arm she carried Mahmouds baby sister, Hana. Isabel hurried after her. He shook his head, trying to clear the ringing, and spied his little brother. Porter? Josef stood in wonder as another sailora German man without a Star of David armband, a man who wasnt a Jewput a suitcase under each arm and one in each hand and led them up the gangway. Waleed Bishara. The fear hed felt when they couldnt reach his father. In the year 1938, Josef Landau is a twelve-year-old Jewish child living in Berlin, Germany. Their current victim kept batting at his nose like there was a fly on it. (full context) .are glassy, but he is able to talk. He has one brother one baby sister and a mom and dad. Josef and his sister followed their mother through the crowd at the Lehrter Bahnhof, Berlins main railway station. Now. After leaving the car behind, Mahmoud and his family had followed the map on their phone, skirting cities held by Daesh and the Syrian army and the rebels and the Kurds as best they could. Mahmoud: Just Outside Aleppo, Syria 2015, 1 day from home.