The Poured Fire on us From the Sky |
Update/Summary: At this point they are traveling from their last camp/refuge to another camp across the country. All of the boys have been split up, however non of them have it easy per say. One of the boys named Benson is currently on a bus right now traveling. He passed millions of skulls on the side of the road. When he asks what they are |
the driver of the bus said that they were the skulls of the boys who had fallen asleep underneath the trees and never woken up. There were points where bandits would murder and rape thousands of the boys and throw them in the rivers for the crocodiles. Its a rather depressing book.
Pointing yourself in the book:
To be 100% honest, I have no idea how I would react in such a awful climate. I'm not sure I would live, or go insane. Each one of the 400,000 plus survivors each had their own horrific story to tell. The three million boys who died had even worse stories. I would honestly probably be dead. Every one of those boys were malnourished and emancipated. I would probably die.
Game over.
I will be commenting again on Bre's and Adeline's Logs.
Pointing yourself in the book:
To be 100% honest, I have no idea how I would react in such a awful climate. I'm not sure I would live, or go insane. Each one of the 400,000 plus survivors each had their own horrific story to tell. The three million boys who died had even worse stories. I would honestly probably be dead. Every one of those boys were malnourished and emancipated. I would probably die.
Game over.
I will be commenting again on Bre's and Adeline's Logs.
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The Poured Fire on us From the Sky
By: Alephonsion Deng
Summary:The book has just gotten darker and darker, with no viably way to get out of it. The boys are dying left and right, thousands at a time. At this point they have traveled by foot across two countries seeking safety. Toward the end of this part of the book they found a refugee camp, however they were treated badly. Many became sick and died. Disease came from the mosquitoes and the |
millions of mites and fleas that devoured their emancipated bodies.
Character Relationships:
This part is rather easy. There are three main people being portrayed in this book.
Benson, Alepho, and Benjamin. They are three brothers who were split up during the raids. The chapters run through different points of view. However all of their goals are very much the same. Stay safe, Survive, and find their family and each other. They all love each other dearly, and feel when they find each other everything will be okay. The dinkan way ( Dinka being their tribe) is family before all else, so they fight fiercely for each other. I am exited to see how the rest of this book manifests itself.
-Simon Cross
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I will be commenting again on Bre's and Adeline's Logs.
They Poured Fire on us from the Sky
By: Deng, Alephonsion
Summary (Copied and Pasted) Benjamin, Alepho, and Benson were raised among the Dinka tribe of Sudan. Their world was an insulated, close-knit community of grass-roofed cottages, cattle herders, and tribal councils. The lions and pythons that prowled beyond the village fences were the greatest threat they knew. |
All that changed the night the government-armed Murahiliin began attacking their villages. Amid the chaos, screams, conflagration, and gunfire, five-year-old Benson and seven-year-old Benjamin fled into the dark night. Two years later, Alepho, age seven, was forced to do the same. Across the Southern Sudan, over the next five years, thousands of other boys did likewise, joining this stream of child refugees that became known as the Lost Boys.
Prediction: Personally at this point I don't really know. The boys have been pushed around the world and kicked out of everywhere. Most of them are sick, and the book mentions that they are dying left and right. I'm not sure if they will live. There is no real main character seeing as it is about like 5 different people's perspective. The book is so dark and brooding it's crazy. I'm also not 100 percent certain when the "Conflict" will be resolved, I just know the boys are heading down south to get away from the army.
I really enjoy this book though. I kinda had to make up my prediction only because I read the entire thing already. Your welcome.
My partners and the two students I will be commenting on are Bre's and Adeline's
Prediction: Personally at this point I don't really know. The boys have been pushed around the world and kicked out of everywhere. Most of them are sick, and the book mentions that they are dying left and right. I'm not sure if they will live. There is no real main character seeing as it is about like 5 different people's perspective. The book is so dark and brooding it's crazy. I'm also not 100 percent certain when the "Conflict" will be resolved, I just know the boys are heading down south to get away from the army.
I really enjoy this book though. I kinda had to make up my prediction only because I read the entire thing already. Your welcome.
My partners and the two students I will be commenting on are Bre's and Adeline's
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