Naomi Nye's Essay 'To Any Would-Be Terrorists'
Arabs: Terrorism
Seri Kamal
Writing 102
Professor Alaanoud Abusalim
October 20, 2010
Arabs: Terrorism
Naomi Nye, a female writer, is an American citizen, half American, half Palestinian. The writer wrote an essay “To Any Would-Be Terrorists” describing in a sad and frustrated way that the terrorists should find another way to live and make peace with the world by stopping the terrorism acts since the world needs not to suffer more pain. The writer’s purpose was to show the Americans that not all Arab-Americans agree to the acts that the Arabs do and that they feel with them especially after the events of 9/11. However, she may have successfully appealed to them, but the appeals presented made her appear to be against Arabs; moreover, it may have lead to distorting our image. …show more content…
Shaheen (1984) argued in “The Media’s Image of Arabs” how stereotypes and media preview the Arabs as people who only understand violence and torture (pp. 222-23). Nye unconsciously supported what the media presented by using pathos in the beginning of her essay in which she explained that the acts of terrorism is hurting a lot of people, and it needs to be stopped, and that the terrorists need to sit and listen. It gives some of the people the idea that Arabs are terrorists who hurt a lot of people and doesn’t see the harm they’re doing to the world or listen to what others are trying to say to them. The author also wrote that she knows what type of food we like and that she would serve it to us under the condition that we listen to her (p. 366). This previews us that we are hard to deal with, and it shows the American people that we are separated and refuse to listen even to the people of same kind as us,
Seri Kamal
Writing 102
Professor Alaanoud Abusalim
October 20, 2010
Arabs: Terrorism
Naomi Nye, a female writer, is an American citizen, half American, half Palestinian. The writer wrote an essay “To Any Would-Be Terrorists” describing in a sad and frustrated way that the terrorists should find another way to live and make peace with the world by stopping the terrorism acts since the world needs not to suffer more pain. The writer’s purpose was to show the Americans that not all Arab-Americans agree to the acts that the Arabs do and that they feel with them especially after the events of 9/11. However, she may have successfully appealed to them, but the appeals presented made her appear to be against Arabs; moreover, it may have lead to distorting our image. …show more content…
Shaheen (1984) argued in “The Media’s Image of Arabs” how stereotypes and media preview the Arabs as people who only understand violence and torture (pp. 222-23). Nye unconsciously supported what the media presented by using pathos in the beginning of her essay in which she explained that the acts of terrorism is hurting a lot of people, and it needs to be stopped, and that the terrorists need to sit and listen. It gives some of the people the idea that Arabs are terrorists who hurt a lot of people and doesn’t see the harm they’re doing to the world or listen to what others are trying to say to them. The author also wrote that she knows what type of food we like and that she would serve it to us under the condition that we listen to her (p. 366). This previews us that we are hard to deal with, and it shows the American people that we are separated and refuse to listen even to the people of same kind as us,