BUYING RATIONS IN KABUL

BY ELIZA GRISWOLD
SITI SURAYA BT NORDIN
MOHD FAHMI B AZIZULLAH
IKRAM MUZAKKIR B MOHAMAD
WAN MOHD NAJAT WAN NAWANG
MOHD NAKHAIE ABD MALEK

POETS
BACKGROUND
Eliza Griswold (born
February 9, 1973) is an
award-winning American
journalist and poet.
Griswold has written widely
on the "war on terror
War on terror is the
campaign against al-Qaeda
and other militant
organizations with the

Buying Rations in Kabul

by Eliza Griswold
The Uzbek boys on Chicken Street
have never had enough to eat.
They stock from shelf to shining shelf
these G.I. meals, which boil themselves
in added water (bottled, please).
In twenty minutes, processed cheese
on jambalaya, followed by
a peanut-butter jamboree

 The boys, polite,

advise on which we might prefer
beef teriyaki, turkey blight
and thank us twice for bringing
peace
as, meals in hand, we leave the
store.
Of course they know that any peace
that must be kept by force
contains another name. Its war.

 The first two lines tell the

readers about the boys in
Uzbek suffers because of
the war.
They do not have enough
food until they have to eat
G.I meal

 The last lines can be

interpreted as there is no
efficient way to maintain
peace by force because
that would just be another
way of saying war.

THEME
Hardship of life of war children
.never had enough to eat. (line 2)
-Because of the war, they do not have enough
food.

.these G.I. meals, which boil themselves

(line 4)
-The children has to eat G.I. meals because there
are no proper meals in their country.
-G.I meals is the ready to eat meal in can that
has been used in a field conditions where
organized food facilities are not available.

 Appearance VS Reality
.The boys, polite (line 9)
The boys polite and giving advice
to the soldier but he actually
afraid of them.

.and thank us twice for

bringing peace (line 12)
It is look like they are bringing
food, proper meal and peace but
they actually are army force
bringing so-called-peace but
harm to their country.