They Poured Fire On Us From The Sky Analysis

The role or purpose of interest groups and international organizations, America, the role of women, education, and war are all central concepts all over the world. However, a person’s geographic location may influence their perception on these ideas. The perspectives of the Sudanese people in “They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky” and the perspectives of stereotypical Americans vary among these topics. I believe that the Lost Boys see the role or purpose of interest groups and international organizations as distant lines of support. I imagine The Lost Boys view interest groups and international organizations such as SPLA and the UN as an aid for them in disastrous situations but not the most reliable aid. These groups offer them food and some feeling of safety but were not doing anything towards ending the genocide or completely removing people from the situation. The United Nations provided food for The Lost Boys however, “life did not improve much with the UN food”(Deng 92). I think the Lost Boys saw the UN as just a group that threw food at them in an offhand attempt to
War is very serious to them and not something to be taken lightly. “The adults no longer hid the subject of war from [the children]” it was their reality and was discussed (Deng 48). The Lost Boys view war as something that leads to horrible consequences. These consequences included but were not limited to rape, death, and loss of sanity (Deng 97,175, 206). For the Sudanese people “war had ruined a lot of things. [They became] convinced that people were not good; [that] people were bad” (Deng 180). War is considered a horrific time that separated people from everything they once knew. From their perspective war means selfishness, and “that is what war was doing to people. They only cared for themselves” (Deng 206). To the Lost Boys, war is a time where every man must fight for himself in order to