Darfur Diaries( Entry 1)

Comments:

1. Many world powers were hungrily anticipating an agreement, waiting for safe and full access to the country's oil reserves that is in the middle of the battleground for the last few decades.
2. Seems as if a war is going to break loose since they closed down the borders of Darfur.
3. Darfur was one of the regions that opposed rge government; it was an "impoverished" area with little developement.
4. Marches were developed they walked 3miles in a candlelight vigil to the sundanese embassy. they also gave speeches and accounts of the victims, the crimes, and cries for action.
5. Their goals were to concentrate on children, since they are among the most "marginalized" population- they were usually the ones who suffered way more, physically and mentally.

Questions:

1. Was this actually a war or just a break out?
2. How old is the Narrator?
3. Since they were in so much suffering, why didnt they simply move out of the area? move to another land?
4. Why did they believe that the world would act out vecause of the anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda?

Words:

1. marginalized-(pg. xli) not found
2. impoverished-(pg. xl) poor enough to need help from others.
3. symptomatic-(pg. xxxiii) showing outward signs of a disease.

Literary Terms:

1. "dropping bombs several times on a scene og chaotic panic, some children falling flat on ground gor saftey from the bombs and other.."( pg. xxviii)- Imagery
2. "regional conflicts were erupting in the north at a time when progress was being made to end war.. "( pg. xxxii)- Irony

Summary Sentence:

• These couple of pages were basically an intorduction to the Darfur Story. It sums up th begining of their struggles and how they begin to overcome it.