D

-'
Hanin Elathram

fir

Professor Douglas

uwRT

Elathram I

rr

1101-090

9 September 2014
The Right

Will Come Back to its Owners

In my childhood, I used to read stories or watch cartoons that contains diverse

characters and purposes, but they shared one common thing the good and the bad side:
the heroes and the devils. In every anecdote or animated cartoon, the hero has to win at
the end and the welfare

will

spread; on the other hand, the devil has to lose even

if

he was

more stronger than the good one. After I became older, I did not see these scenes

will win
iil l,i'f "':

anymore the bad guy

and the good

will

lose no matter what.

Unexp*"t"aty,ky

l\-<it*2 Ci'''>)
belief sajs that rhe truth has to come whether I, you, or we liked it ot nol; whether we
tr"ij u ilt< 'o'
ftf '
I
it or pretended being blind about ,!A
saw
hiding
it.
Whether
it
part
or
ofrevealing
were
'-".r

i't

; I !'r-a*

f;WL

eventuallyitwillappear.
The significances of this belief or the motives behind it came from my
background.

tr:ti i'"''
;"i;:tt"
"1ti'fl-'
Before three years, this i&ea started

\,,a--^-,.-

O,r-r*, I

to be an intrinsic factor in my principles

and beliefs that drew a new map, trace, and path in my life.

It was like

a milestone or a

turning point to my perspectives. This idea changed my concerns and every single detail
in my routine life. I lived in a country, Libya, whose political system was dictatorial.
This system that was capable of doing anything in terms of universally unacceptable,
aggressive, and hostile to maintain its position even the papers that I write on them

r \C)

o';

,i )t,t' -t

C,\.,,
wl{"\

''

Elathram 2

TJU

murderer
cannot endure its deeds. Roughly 42yeiarcunder this bloody, oppressive, and
regime.

However, the sun shone again after four decades of darkness. A brave revolution
,'t't;)

year
started in 2011, and it was one of the five revolutiorrs that happened in that '

known nowadays by "Arab

an{'arer7

t '.'

\-2.

system did not surrender or yield to

Sprinpffiwpolitical

against the
the reality; instead, it kept sencljng armies of killers to fight back aggressively
ii:
'f

revolutionists until their last

bullets.

hrr. Ve{m

The story did not finish

glldi:.\he

govemment could not give up easily, so it

about the
started an unbelievable media war that ranged betwe-en spreading rumors

public

! i , .e i "
\cl
"
|-:>1
to.// (t
to altering the reality by ithoto shopping methods. This revolution lasted'for-ten-month (
Ji"'i''
)
--"succeedandfmislralthough some people still see that it did not finish yet'

/i

I'

Through this time, I did not believe what was going on. I could not acknowledge
that we, the public, became free, and finally we could speak and express our opinions

y'r'

without fe^ftF{#punishment anymore and without turning our heads or whispering

I (..' t r i i.) v:; ,t ;''.
U.iorJ taking about the govemment. For ten months, I was pondering and Oueffiine
myself. Is this a reality or dream? How did this happen?

/'

Although Randy Pausch, in his book " Thelast Lecture" saidj'The questions are

,i-., a{ 6}fu ;

always more important than the answers"(163).

quesrions. a1d they were compiled ipone

u;oi.,

/ +Zh-

I found the answers tO'6 6

)'' l' (\

*'or#Th.

these

truthYBefore this event I was not

--"=:
fnn\v"gq
*a/not certain that {l come t,guy -l
,/1,,,,, ;,..:t:', IL^.,-*-

reallysure that the truth has to-appear; f

oppressed people
punishment

will

,/

take their rights, and the oppressive ones

r. godthappened

and

will

whicb the

take their

I was a witness about it, and if you

asked me why I

Elathram 3
hold this belief I woul{sa;{pecause I saw the power of the truth; I saw its strength and

,&

influences. In other

governm entwasVr4uuVydtt
tro$r, {$oueh the
'J,'

fWtfngL, :

/1,t ',;,..;'t
protesters,

"lu

,b'hi@

onger than the

a:

won. Becaurjrrn"t were holdinB the right wtth,them; they were the

right side. Literally, whoever,have..the right and&old the justicglS will be the winner

whetherhewaslge

'#rW:,X{Hfr. "J*,! tt*

fuli}P-

This belieilives me the feeling of security and safety in my life. I feel that
whatever is
,t
, ,1.-,A "

going to happen to

f,ned

and whatever the circumstances

*f"t;"Alt".
life. Conversely,

thut I will.+ake myrights in

ttrYs

will

be; I am sure

this belief also gives me cautions and

alarms to avoid hurting or oppressing anVonBbecause everything

' .:'

took other people's rights, I weufu get my punishment before mpyhg I die in

|;

fr

will return bacE*so if

(,4 .z
.L(_'

thislifer{

this belief represents the guarantee in my life that works like a monitor or a guard in

rri,>('

adjusting

-V

4
!:k*ls

and guides me toward the right path.

According to" The book of Eli" movie, an action and meaningful film, we can see
along the eventsp{e that Eli was obsessive about sending his mysterious book to the

!"1

.'

west of Americqsrbecause he knew that the truth would be thergpnd believed

ul

thatjithis

!,

book was the solution or the truth that the people needed in that limp then it had to appear
and reach to every individual person even

rli"

.)..
-..

7;q,,i

,:

/'

.Ftr.

if the cost was his life.

'

'u::

vfl

ry*lM

. :::
for the'ones who afraidfrom
person.
instance. /\
For :::::
- :-"T-T."jffi
i{is a nightmare
'
i!, .;.
r-*-Jo,,l',i'

it is a desired dream for the p.opl.)/o ipent their lives t'seeking ;b$(t it. Sometimes,
the diffrcblt circumstances in the life push the people to believe that the truth

\ \

.. ,r'.
'r
ifi,i(
t
ra
Il lr --''

"4

will

never

Elathram 4
come, and when they forget about it and lose the hope in getting it.
lare coming. In other words, even
has

It surprise them by its

if the truth has been hidden for a while, eventually it

in some
to come and the beauty in this belief that it is universal. It is not restricted

Work Cited
Pausch, Randy, and Jefkey Zaslow. The last lecture.New York: Hyperion,2008. Print.

TheTook of EIi.Dir. Joel Silver. Perf. Denzel Washington. Warner Home Video,

2010.DVD.
Tobol, Sarah. "The Story Behind the Libyan Revolution." G8.1 Jan. ZAn. Web. 9 Sept.
2014.