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A 4 page research paper that discusses the Iraqi film, Turtles Can Fly, from the perspective of children with disabilities. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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at what life is like for a group of Kurdish children who live in a refugee village that is tucked into a corner of Iraq that sits on the border
with Turkey ("Turtles"). As the film is in Arabic, it was obviously intended for a Middle Eastern viewing audience. The filmmakers switch back and forth between the stories of a
young adolescent boy who is referred to as Satellite, because he knows how to hook up a satellite dish, and a brother and sister, Hyenkov, whose arms were blown off
by a landmine, and Agrin, an extremely young girl, really no more than a child herself, who is also a mother because she was raped by the same soldiers who
murdered her family. Both of these adolescents have disabilities because Agrin is clearly haunted by what happened to her and the film begins by picturing her suicide when she jumps
off a cliff. In the scene where an irate Satellite confronts the Boy- with-no-arms, i.e., Hyenkov, he is clearly angry that any other boy would dare to usurp his authority
with the children of the village, who constitute Satellites unofficial workforce, whom he supervises in the dangerous task of finding and defusing landmines, so they can be sold to arms
dealers in the nearby town. Hyenkov refuses to be intimidated by Satellite and head butts him, knocking him to the ground, making his nose bleed, when Satellite persists in being
antagonistic. For the majority of the twentieth century, disability has been viewed as a description that pertains to "flawed minds and bodies"
(Barnes and Mercer 1). However, it is clear that Hyenkov has adjusted to the loss of his arms and does not perceive himself to be at a loss in a
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