Examples Of Poverty In Agu

This movie depicts issues, most resulting from the civil war, such as poverty, migration, and most importantly refugees. The civil war raging within Agu’s country causes a significant amount of suffering for both those participating and those who are just caught in the middle. Agu and his family would be a prime example of the latter, forced to separate and the remainder executed after an accusation, based on no evidence, of them being spies for the rebels. The war makes Agu into a refugee that is forced to migrate away from his home to anywhere that might be safer. Like Agu, thousands of people most migrate away from zones of conflict only to live in poverty as refugees until either the war ends or they are forced to move again as the conflict spreads.
The movie depicts refugees and poverty through Agu’s father who uses some of the family’s land to allow the refugees in the buffer zone to start building a new village.
Most of those refugees are forced to live in small tents or crude houses made of sheet metal and wood with hardly any food or medicine to survive and virtually no reliable way of making money. The movie also depicts migration with people trying frantically to leave the buffer zone to avoid the ensuing conflict when the NRC
arrives. Only Agu’s mother and younger sister are able to leave the buffer zone after his father pays a man to take them in his car while the rest of the family stays and hopes for the best. Agu’s country is already filled with plenty of poverty but the war forces people to migrate away from their homes to avoid the fighting only to live in even worse conditions than they did before. The message this movie conveys through the situations depicted is that in war everyone suffers. Many people are killed while those who survive are forced to migrate away from their homes as refugees to live elsewhere in extreme poverty. Agu himself suffers through much of these same issues before being pulled into the films other message about the damage that is done to child soldiers. Agu is transformed into a child soldier, like many other young refugees, because of the civil war and poverty plaguing his country. Had Agu’s situation been different, perhaps less affected by the issues of poverty, migration, and refugees than he might never have been dragged into such a terrible fate.