Kenneth Ring's Letters From Palestine

Everyone has aspirations, dreams, and desires including Americans and Palestinians. Kenneth Ring the author of Letters from Palestine intends for the readers of his book show the American audience to see the Palestinian people as individuals. The purpose isn’t to evoke sympathy for these hardships but to have people learn about those living in Palestine and how they are our brothers and sisters. They are not whom we need to fear or regard as an outsider or ‘other’. This book goes beyond the memories of the Palestinians own horrible experiences but the memories of their parents and the generations before that. They are just trying to better their own lives and escape the misery of the occupation but also to contribute back to their people,

It’s about how she and her family try to propose a solution to eliminate the hardships they are facing but end up having to simply accept the facts of the lives they are living. Here Manar, her family, and others in the camp were attending her cousins wedding only six kilometers from the camp. They were prepared to take this bus full of all these people and had left early enough to wait for checkpoints. On this journey and while they had to wait they all were singing traditional wedding songs and were all in great mood, they even had a drummer. They were all making the most of waiting for this checkpoint. However, the soldiers soon shouted at the bus and ordered them to keep silent. They waited in the hot bus for over four hours and had to go back because no was getting through the checkpoint that day. Here I would propose for all Palestinians to have this happy, joyous attitude like the singing! It seemed to help make the hardships of waiting a little easier that is until the soldiers came. It was no guarantee solution obviously but if Palestinians can have at least a few moments a day where they aren’t always accepting the facts and instead singing songs then their days will hopefully be a little