Outside Writing: Final Blog

The book They Poured Fire on us from the Sky has many ideas wrapped within its cover. Some of its main ideas are about government, slavery, war, and disease. This book explores these different ideas by having Lost Boys from Sudan talk about their experiences of escaping the war and living on their own by moving from refugee camp, to work camps and through their escapes from slavery. This book shows the problems that they have as they struggle to find safety within their own country. They eventually find safety in Kakuma which is a refugee camp in Kenya. From there, they get to America where they have help from the author of this book, Judy Bernstein. While reading this book, there are many issues that arise which do not happen in many other countries such as America. A question that begins to come up is: why does one country end up with so many problems that do not exist in other countries? A possible answer to this question is that different countries may not listen to their peoples needs and the government does not do their part to help their citizens. A majority of the problems that happened in Sudan was because of the war that happened. If the government had not begun the war within itself many of the problems that settled within its borders may not have happened. The government should have worked on helping its citizens and listening to their needs so disease, slavery and other issues could be solved. The main issue with that kept coming up was the government would not listen to its people but began creating problems within itself. When a government helps support the people within its borders progress can be made to solve problems but when the government does not help its people but instead brings war on its country, the country crumbles and many of the people have issues that would not have appeared. Without a giving government, the people within its borders will have more issues without it.