Darfur Diaries(Entry 3)

Comments:

1. They were finally able to settle down; They were told to stay in a tent because the place is actually really disgusting and mosquitoes are everywhere.
2. They started in the north and worked their way down south; North did not have much fighting occurring at the time.
3. Deby was from the Bahai area and from the Zaghawa tribe.
4. Desertification was investing in Darfur at an alarming rate.
5. People volunteered to be teachers and teach the children, even though they did not have tents they taught them on the bare sand.

Questions:

1. Why are they settled in the North, why wont they keep moving down south?
2. Is it safer for them to stay in the North verses the South?
3. Are these teachers professionals or just regular people willing to teach these children?
4. Why is Melissa so secretive as to what she is doing, why didn't she tell her from the beginning.

Words:

1. ibex(pg17)-any of several wild goats of the genus Capra
2. Tripod(pg19)-a three-legged stand or support
3. Dilapidated(pg22)-reduced to or fallen into partial ruin or decay, as from age, wear, or neglect

Literary Terms:

1. "The ground is disgusting-animal shit all over the place, scorpions and mosquitoes. And Camel spiders!"- Imagery (PG14)
2. "Okay, go away, they all disperse like a flock of birds."(pg21)- Simile

Summary Sentence:

• These couple of pages reveals the type of environment they are all living in; Melissa is in a different area, but doesn't quite reveal the truth as to why she was there.