Daniel's Perspective: The Lost Boys Of Sudan

“The Book of Daniel” written by E.L Doctorow uses Daniels respective experience to capture a radical time in history. Daniel writes from personal experiences as a child living in the 1950s to an adult. Living through this time period, and having a strong connection to the issues surrounding this time, one would have the expectations that Daniel has strong emotional opinions as to his communist party parents. Throughout Daniels narrative, there are many voices, but in passages throughout the beginning of the novel Daniel does not present himself as connected to his leftist parent’s view, in order to convey the challenges of growing up in this time period.

The story of the Lost Boys of Sudan is one that provides the world with many examples of social interaction, some being violent and others being inspirational. Their journey from Sudan to Ethiopia and Kenya, then on to the United States for a better life for themselves and their families gives an insight into how certain cultures deal with and overcome adversity. Culture is the complex system of meaning and behavior that defines the way of life for a given group or society, in the case of the Lost Boys, the culture of the people of Sudan and the American society are analyzed. How the boys were able to continue on without their families to show them the way is almost a miracle. Over outstanding odds, the boys were able to prevail and

Since 1983, the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and the Sudanese government have been at war within the southern region of Sudan. This brutal conflict has ravaged the country claiming hundreds of lives and exiling a vast number of the southern Sudanese people. Most of these outcasts were young men aging between five and twelve who were tending cattle to return home to see their village being attacked and their villagers being killed. These boys fled not knowing what they would encounter on the journey to escape the violence in their own country. Hungry, frightened, and weak from their long and hellish journey, the boys finally reached refugee camps outside of Sudan. Even though many young men were killed on their multiple

As we see time and time again, humans are willing to do nearly anything to survive. There have been many cases of practically ordinary people defying the odds, doing everything necessary to stay alive and survive.

Throughout the journey in Sudan, Gus Caseley apparently refutes the claim that Nubia was not a "Barbarian Wasteland." After Gus and Mahmoud leave Meroe, Jebel Barkal and make their way back on the road, they encounter hundreds of men with camels. Gus describes that the camels have no fear, and there are many of them surround the car. Moreover, the smell of the camels is quite irritated, and their breathing are intolerable. Gus and Mahmoud follow those men with camels in order to understand more about their cultures. For a while, Mahmoud and Gus are invited to join the men and take a sip of camels' milk, as well as eating a crunchy sand-encrusted bread. Later on, Gus is really exhausted when he arrives at Kadugli. This destination is considered

Have you ever heard about the civil war that sent 20,000 Sudanese children lost in afraid without anywhere to go. First we will talk about the food and water struggles of the lost boys.The next we will talk about the many casualties in the war. Last we will talk about why the war happened and why it's important.

Child development is an important part of who we are and how we got to the way we are now. There are different areas that make up child development such as, physical, cognitive, social, and personality development. These areas make up who we are as a person. Society as well as family and friends share an influence on these areas of development. The culture in which a child is living in, can change how they think, act, socialize with others. Children oversees in the Middle East act different to how children in America act. As I went through my observation, I kept in mind the different areas of child development and saw how far the child was in each one.

“The Lost Boys of Sudan; the Long, Long, Long Road to Fargo” by Sara Corbett, The New York Times April 1, 2001.

The British occupation of Sudan ended in 1956 and the Sudanese formed a national government. Four years later the natives of the Nuba Mountains of West Sudan observed the independence with a tribal festival. Mohamed, a Nubian, took part in the festivity where he met and wed a young lady, Magbula. With the foreign rule over, the inhabitants of the mountains left their hideouts and explored their homeland. Mohamed and his wife left for Khartoum, the capital, where in 1963 they gave birth to me, Ibrahim. Since my parents were illiterate and spoke only a rare dialect, they failed to fit in a city dominated by educated Arabs. Therefore, we moved to the Central State to work on cotton farms. However, years passed and all that my family earned for hard work was rations and a shed. Fed up with abuse, we left the farm and lived as Nomads. Two years later we settled in a small village.

The first struggle Francis faced involved cooking. He made it to his apartment and realized that he was hungry. Consequently, he couldn’t read the labels on the food cans and he was unable to cook any food. Ahmed brought Francis a pizza but he doesn’t like the look of it and thinks it’s messy. “But I did not like Ahmed’s present.” It did not look like good food to me; it seemed messy (164). His bed, another problem gave him havoc every night. It was made for americans, not 6 foot 6 Sudanese men. Francis had trouble getting around in Fargo. Francis’s transportation, a bike didn’t ride well in the snow. “One second I’m riding my bike, the next I’m a snowman” (172). Even though Francis made good money he still had trouble with the hard labor at

areas like Southeast Asia are particularly vulnerable, but victims are from everywhere—from the Sudan to the suburbs. Their destinations are just as varied. No place or people is immune.

Argument culture is what societies and politics are built upon, but there are downsides. Argument culture, when used in politics with negative ideals and ideas involved leads to war, and corruption to hatred down to interpersonal levels. A strong example of how this is shown is in a series of stories called Children of Israel, Children of Palestine: Our True Stories. In this collection of stories, children have their own tales about what happens when families get involved with racism and forgiveness.The largest example of racism in the short bit of stories I have read has to be in Thumbprint. A very well shown place where argument culture is not the way to go is when, on page 19, the father starts arguing with the mother on how the child should be raised. His temper chose to rise instead of calming down and discussing it. It shows the large difference in traditions, and he was saddened by how his father acted. A great divide was created by the Oslo Accords, a peace agreement between the Israeli and the Palestinians.

Have you ever noticed that in almost any book, there is survival part? Well, if you have, you may also notice that the theme of those books is about survival. The theme of “survival” could be related to any books. The book Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping the Civil War in Sudan is about 2 kids, John, and Martha tried to escape the war and get to an UN camp in Ethiopia but there are dangers on the way. The theme of “survival” relates to this book because John and Martha used all the resources to help them from dying. Furthermore, this is how the theme of “survival” relates to the book, Lost Boy, Lost Girl: Escaping the Civil War in Sudan.

The Lost Boys of Sudan survived their struggle because of their physical, emotional, quel spiritual streath. Their physical they went though a lot they were always bearfoot and they walked though rocks and ruf.Their emotions was very sad because they were alone since they were young because they killed their parents but they still went kept on going with there life they didn’t stop for there own safety. They also berid there bother he died because he never drink anything so he died and they beried him right after he died they had no choice and they drank their pee if they wanted to live. Yes it might be nasty but they had nothing to drink so they had to drink there pee.They were very strong they kept on going even doe there brother die and

The Sudanese civil wars were broken into two wars. The first war was in from 1955-1972. The second civil war was 1983-2005. Both these civil wars involved a conflict between the North Sudan government and between various rebel groups fighting for separation from the north.