AS you know, my themes for my theme Notebook was Equity and Disparity. The short story the Blokes by Alan Gibbons, clearly demonstrates both these themes well. The story is about a boy named Hashim. Hashim is a refugee from Kosovo. He and his family now live in England in order to be protected during the Kosovo war. In his so called protection, Hashim doesn't seem to make many friends because he is different. He has one true friend, a boy named John. Even though Hashim is moved to england for his protection, he soon finds that it becomes very dangerous all because of one boy. The boy is the leader of the Blokes, a group of bullies at Hashim's school. The Blokes believe that they are superior to everyone and that everyone should do what they want. But then when Hashim arrives, I think that they sense a threat. The Blokes wanted to bring Hashim down and they did so by "ruining" his village. The way they got to Hashim was through his best friend was very bad. I also think that this demonstrates my themes well because the Blokes chose to pick on Hashim because he was different and he wasn't a typical Brit. It is also Ironic because Hashim moves to England for a new life when he is faced with this group of people who just want to end him. This makes me feel really bad because all over the world, their are people who are being forced out of their home town for their own protection and then when they arrive in their new home, people treat them unequally. That really upsets me because what is the point of leaving to be safer when you can have the same problems in their new, "safer" home.
