Girl Made Of Dust

The Lebanese civil war also known as (the Israeli-Palestinian conflict), resulted in killings of a number of civilians and military troops was a war which as little Ruby got to discover in her quest to render sanity in her family was based in the name of race and faith. What started as a some-what operation to destroy terrorist attacks on the IDF forces along the Lebanon-Israeli border, later escalated into war when the supposed short-term movement led further into the outskirts of Beirut, (Ynetnews, 2008). The course of the war led to Internally displaced persons, camps being set up and Palestinian refugees struggling to go through survival of the event at hand. This write up however is not based on instances of the Lebanese war but rather on an intriguing drama and horrific events experienced by a little girl Ruby in the light of understanding the circumstances surrounding her families demise.
The novel “A girl made of dust” by Abi-Ezzi is a
Naji, who is her beloved brother, Aida her mother who is faced with situations of experiencing cultural change in family relationships such as changing gender roles. Her husbands absence from normal functioning in daily activities pushes her to assume role of the survivor of the family.
Ruba’s father broken by the war has become a man wasted in the shadow of whom he once was. Lost in a world of his own, the responsibility of running the household is shifted to the responsibility of a traumatizing Aida his wife and Teta, Rubas’ grandmother. The novel also brings forward a glimpse on the traumatizing effects war has on families and children. Not only does it lead to separation of families but also pushes children to the wrong directions in life. For instance, the absence of a fathers’ attention sends Naji to hang out with the wrong