They Poured Fire On Us From The Sky Book Report
They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky Review
"They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky" by Alphonsion Deng, Benson Deng, Benjamin Ajak, Judy A. Bernstein was an outstanding book giving insight about three young Sudanese boys fighting for freedom. It shows how life was and continues to be hard in the warring these African states. Life over there is extremely difficult especially for the kids because they face violence every day. Refugees had to travel to the next “Safe-point”, which could be hundreds of miles away when warring clans attacked each other. When raiders attacked one of Sudan’s “Lost Boys” Benjamin's village he did just what his mother told him to do; run. He met two of his cousins in the forest because they escaped from their home too. …show more content…
Now they had the daunting task of making it to one of the refugee camps. There were many obstacles such as bombed out villages, hunger, deserts, minefields, and people that would take food from kids along on their journey.
They had to survive Africa’s harsh environment, which has plenty of lions, poisonous snakes, and enemy soldiers. They traveled over a hundred miles to Ethiopia, back to Sudan and then to Kenya. They had to remember all of their good times they had to keep that will to live; they also had to make the journey for the friends that they made, and for the ones that they lost. These kids were not the only people that experienced this, but rather plenty of people experienced this during the ongoing Sudanese civil war. This book truly showed the horrors of this war, or any war for that matter and the amount of determination you must have just to survive. This war has displaced many Sudanese people throughout the country. Soldiers would destroy people and their homes and forcing many from the lands that they called home. They had nowhere to go or to run to, so they just ran to safety. That is the reason they are referred as “The Lost Boys.” This war is very horrific and has many casualties; many of which were innocent people just trying to live their life. It could also be said that these series of tribal wars displace the trust of the Sudanese people, let alone the Africans. These wars pit each countryman versus fellow countryman, serving
to be detrimental for a lasting peace in Sudan. The time they spend fighting each other is time wasted for working together to improve themselves. I believe that this book is very appropriate for freshman, and I strongly recommend it. This does not mean that only freshman should read this, more people should read this to attest to the horrors of the civil wars in Africa. By reading this they will grow to appreciate the freedoms that they so often take for granted. Freshman will learn that high school books are on serious topics and that they are expected to be a much more mature and therefore expected to handle much more mature topics. This book is very gruesome, but I believe that it is good so that people see what is going on in this world and try to fix these problems.
"They Poured Fire on Us from the Sky" by Alphonsion Deng, Benson Deng, Benjamin Ajak, Judy A. Bernstein was an outstanding book giving insight about three young Sudanese boys fighting for freedom. It shows how life was and continues to be hard in the warring these African states. Life over there is extremely difficult especially for the kids because they face violence every day. Refugees had to travel to the next “Safe-point”, which could be hundreds of miles away when warring clans attacked each other. When raiders attacked one of Sudan’s “Lost Boys” Benjamin's village he did just what his mother told him to do; run. He met two of his cousins in the forest because they escaped from their home too. …show more content…
Now they had the daunting task of making it to one of the refugee camps. There were many obstacles such as bombed out villages, hunger, deserts, minefields, and people that would take food from kids along on their journey.
They had to survive Africa’s harsh environment, which has plenty of lions, poisonous snakes, and enemy soldiers. They traveled over a hundred miles to Ethiopia, back to Sudan and then to Kenya. They had to remember all of their good times they had to keep that will to live; they also had to make the journey for the friends that they made, and for the ones that they lost. These kids were not the only people that experienced this, but rather plenty of people experienced this during the ongoing Sudanese civil war. This book truly showed the horrors of this war, or any war for that matter and the amount of determination you must have just to survive. This war has displaced many Sudanese people throughout the country. Soldiers would destroy people and their homes and forcing many from the lands that they called home. They had nowhere to go or to run to, so they just ran to safety. That is the reason they are referred as “The Lost Boys.” This war is very horrific and has many casualties; many of which were innocent people just trying to live their life. It could also be said that these series of tribal wars displace the trust of the Sudanese people, let alone the Africans. These wars pit each countryman versus fellow countryman, serving
to be detrimental for a lasting peace in Sudan. The time they spend fighting each other is time wasted for working together to improve themselves. I believe that this book is very appropriate for freshman, and I strongly recommend it. This does not mean that only freshman should read this, more people should read this to attest to the horrors of the civil wars in Africa. By reading this they will grow to appreciate the freedoms that they so often take for granted. Freshman will learn that high school books are on serious topics and that they are expected to be a much more mature and therefore expected to handle much more mature topics. This book is very gruesome, but I believe that it is good so that people see what is going on in this world and try to fix these problems.