Elephant run
a book report by Faiz Maknojia
De'ja' vu all over again?
Things at Pearl harbor wasn't going any better in December 7, 1941 when Pearl Harbor got bombed by Japan and killed 68 people and wounded 30 people. When Japan bombed U.S without warning things became awful. The president of U.S said that U.S wasn't going to enter World War II, Japan came and did a 110 min attack (1 hr 50 min) which caused U.S to enter World War II which killed more immigrants of U.S. Was this De'ja' vu?
Women rights still going on?
Well, in this story Mya is not happy about having to be a girl for several reasons. One reason is that Mya cannot be a mahout because of her gender. This is not fair to her because at that time in America and England women had rights so Mya is very angry about this. She is thinking that probably she lives in a country that is the only country which women don't have rights. Lets find out!!!
Unfortunately for Mya even if she wanted to live in the future Burma still didn't have women rights. If she traveled into South Arabia she wouldn't get rights. She could travel to U.S. or England and have the rights over there. Well she that's what she did. She went to Alice Springs and now has rights!!
Hard times
They actually did take prisoners not only from Burma but other places of the world as well to make the Burma- Thailand railway. 61,000 Prisoners of War were forced to work in the most atrocious conditions. The railway was 421kms long of single track and 1mg gauge, was constructed in a little over 12 months. over this period of time about 13,000 POW died. this included 6,500 British, 2,700 Austrians and 2,800 Dutch.