Of Beetles And Angels Analysis

Assimilation, which is a word that describes the act of adapting or adjusting to a new environment/Culture. This is the case for many foreigners transitioning to a new country, it involves emerging themselves into a new culture and learning how to survive. “Of Bettles and Angels,” written by Mawi, is a story that captures Mawi and his family’s experience living in a Sudan refugee camp and moving to America. Furthermore, the family demonstrated qualities of hard work and courage to achieve success and persevere through the battles of race issues they encountered, which Mawi excelled through education and earned scholarships to graduate from Harvard University.
“My family hadn’t even gotten to the interview room when my father’s booming voice stopped the rest of us in our tracks. Don’t any of you say a word or I will make you lost. Let me do all the talking” Pg. 31. This quote demonstrates the family’s urgency to remove themselves from the refugee camp in search of a better life; however, the family stays for another year
Christian organization which helped refuges transition to America, provided aid to the Mawi’s family by finding a sponsor who would provide housing, furniture, medical treatments, and schooling. When first Arriving to America in Chicago, they spent the first few months in a motel until a sponsor was found to provide them with a house. After months living a in motel, a sponsor was found – Bethel Presbyterian Church. The family was quite surprised at the size of the house and could not believe that it was theirs; however, the family rented to the upstairs level of the house in order to afford rent. Mawi’s family tended to take people in to provide food and shelter, which directly connect to the title of the book “Of Beetles and Angels.” Mawi’s father suggest that angels come in the form of many different figures which from the naked eye can be misleading, hence is where the beetle reference comes from in the title of the