Year Of No Rain Analysis

Alice Mead wrote a great book called The Year of No Rain. She wanted people to up give up as easy.She wanted to get people to try a little bit harder and show that there are people on this planet that can’t and won’t give up. This story happened in 1989 in South Sudan. There is a boy named Stephen and his sister Naomi that is getting married to Wol who is friends with Deng and Stephen.

In the book Year of No Rain by Alice Mead, Deng and Stephen both have different ways they feel about the war. For Example, on page 57, The texts says, “Finally, Deng stopped walking. He swayed a little on his feet. Then he sat down and began to cry.” From this quote, this war is breaking down Deng emotionally. On page 54, the text says, “After what he had
Many places in this world have more everyday problems than we have every year problems. Another Quote, “By July 10, heavy artillery could be heard all over Juba as the two sides fell back to their old war footing and took up arms once again. Hundreds of soldiers and civilians lost their lives in the crossfire.” Therefore, they have so many wars because things are a lot harder there than here in the US. Everyone is struggling of something there and the war does not help at all with those struggles. Another quote, “Taban is from South Sudan's capital, Juba. He said his neighbors were attacked by militants in July. His family fled the city on foot, eventually reaching buses that took them across the border to register as refugees in Uganda.” The struggle they have are much bigger than the ones we have. They all struggle with a lack of food, water and major supplies. The text says, “I've been collecting grain and rice from the ground of the burned huts, picking kennels out of the dirt.” Even in the book they have more struggles than the average person and they aren't feed well. So, she wants to show that not everyone doesn’t give up. And there are a lot of people that can't afford to give up because they have to fight to to survive and stay alive. She started to notice that many people only fail once and then they give up and just quit trying altogether. Many people on this planet don’t understand that people are fighting for there life and others lives as