Analysis Of Running For My Life By Lopez Lomong

In Lopez Lomong’s novel, Running for my Life, he tells the story of how he started off as a lost boy in the killing fields of Sudan, and how he then transformed into a respectable Olympic athlete and role model. Lomong grew up in a refugee camp and would run to forget his hunger. He was practically hopeless until he was informed that thirty-five hundred of the boys from his camp were going to be given the opportunity to go to America. It was this opportunity that changed Lomong’s life forever. Lomong speaks of the astonishing change he went through throughout his novel:
I walked down the track, beaming with pride. God had brought me so far, through war, through eating garbage and running to forget about my empty stomach. No matter what I went