Darfur Diaries(Entry 4)

Comments:

1. Mathijs was worried; because of the children being as soliders, fighting.
2. Statistics show three-hundred thousand children were estimated to be involved in armed violence, specifically in Africa.
3. Mathijs was stationed in Abeche for six months.
4. Girls often stop attending school at the higher grade levels because they begin to take care of their younger siblings.
5. Darfur needed to be protected but Africa did not come soon enough to help them at all.

Question:

1. If the Girls left school so early, what made the boys not? did they not have to work, to help the family out money wise?
2. Why couldnt they just use the adults to fight rsther than poor, innocent children?
3. Why didn't Africa pull through with their promise?
4. Why was it so hard for Darfur to defend their ownselves? did they lack resource, because Africa did not have much either?

Words:

1. implemented(pg27)-To put into practical effect; carry out.
2. preemptively(pg28)-taken as a measure against something possible, anticipated, or feared.
3. hoisted(pg40)-To raise or haul up with or as if with the help of a mechanical apparatus.

Literary terms:

1. "The sprawl of tents was endless. Eighteen thousand refugees from Darfur were sheltered in this vast tent city. The scene out of nowhere in the barren desert landscape."(pg 32)- Imagery
2. "I wanted to find a a way to protect them: from their pasts, which i could scarcely imagine when looking at their quick smiles, and from their future, which were so precarious."(pg33)- Metaphor

Summary sentence:

• These few pages spoke about the hardwork the children would put into the Darfur, and how much they had to sacrafise. It also elaborates more on the type of situation the people/ residence there were in.