Question

The Jews were exiled and forced to spend 70 years in Babylon. If you were forced to live far away from your homeland, how would you react to your situation? Write a journal entry describing your thoughts about being forced to live away from your homeland.

Answer 1

If I were forced to live away from my homeland, I will feel a lot of frustration and sadness. Frustration because in history people who have been forced to leave their own countries is due to religious beliefs and political situations. I do not make any political decisions. It is out of my hands, but a person (President, first minister, etc) who controls the country does. For instance, Stalin expelled many Jews from Russia and the common Jews citizens had either leave the country or to die.

If I am forced to live away from my homeland, I will be sad because I am leaving my ancestral homeland. Another common reason why people are forced to leave their nations is called "religious intolerance."