Deborah Rasegan

Kidnapped in Pakistan: The End of American Ideals?

The author begins the story about talking of a kidnapping that happened three months earlier. His friend and co-worker Ayesha who's brother was kidnapped met in 1999 at thief office in Washington D.C. They worked together on a project which gave help overseas after 9/11. They become close friends because they shared many of the same interests. Her brother and two nephews lived in Pakistan where she hoped to go and help build up the education there after going to Harvard in America. The author offered Ayesha help by going to the government and recieving help from them, she declined his offer. Her belief was they would nob be able to help her and save her brother. Later she found out her brother was killed the day after he was abducted. " Whos fault is it?" The author Hady Amor, asks himself. He blames everyone including himself and says America needs to change.

The first statements in this essay talk about the fundamentals that Americans have let go and a new face Obama has came to bring something back for America. He writes that the past eight years many things have been taken away and people have been blinded by the leaders on what was really going on. He quotes Obama " For alongside our famous individualism, there's another ingredient in the American sign saga: a belief that we are connected as one people." The author states that Obama has never got mad and has strived very hard to beat the odds against the other competitors. He talks of Obama giving new hope and spreading the word of change through the streets. That as a new leader can use his words to move people and start a movement. The author voted in Brooklyn where he waited two hours in line. The author brings about the thought of America and how it is always a progressing power. It always improves itself and needs to now just renew the respect of the
world and move forward to make the great changes as it always has.