HW 25 "Introduction to Baghdad Burning"

“Baghdad Burning” was written by a young woman who goes by the name of Riverbend. The story seems to be written in a blog type format as you would read online. She describes her blog as a “Girl Blog from Iraq”. The beginning of the Introduction goes on to explain the type of person Riverbend is. It tells us that she is in her mid twenties living middle class with her family in Baghdad. A lot of her blogs “have become the most important sources of news from Iraq”. Riverbend depicts what has been occurring in her life being in view of the war and of the actual burning of Baghdad as she watches from her rooftop with her brother. In continuation of the introduction to this bog story, it discusses the wars and the full effects of them afterwards. “…and have learned to identify different types of automatic weapons by the sound of their volleys” (Page 1 of Introduction). My impressions of the war in Iraq are somewhat similar to what Riverbend describes in her story throughout the introduction. I can imagine from past experiences of watching programs on television about wars about families being able to view from their houses and witnessing the gruesome effects of battle.