OBAA and AoW Comparison 9/24/15

Prompts: Analyze how Of Beetles and Angels and your AoW make connections or distinctions between individuals, ideas and/or events. How does war affect individuals and societies?

9/24/15

        The book Of Beetles and Angles(OBAA) and the article,"Kerry says U.S. will take 85,000 refugees next year; 100,000 in '17" have their similarities and differences. One of the similarities was an idea of what another country was like. In OBAA the Sudanese refugees and Mawi's family thought of America as a paradise. In the book Mawi's father, Haileab says,"...a paradise called Amerikha, a distant land where everyone had a future." This idea of another country is very similar to a mother mentioned in the article. The mother was a Syrian refugee,but moved to Germany. She moved to Germany,"...in search of a future," which was the same reason as Mawi's family.

        Another similarity between these two pieces of writing is some of events that happened. In OBAA Mawi's family became refugees because of a war. Mawi's family was situated in the middle of the war between Ethopia and Eritrea. Since, they were where there Mawi, age three, and his family had to walk to Sudan. In the article,"Kerry says U.S. will take 85,000 refugees next year; 100,000 in '17" the
refugees that are being moved to the U.S. are from Africa and Syria. Syria at the moment is going through a civil war causing many to flee the country. Africa is also going through a war creating even more refugees. In all, the refugees in OBAA and the article are both created from countries in war.

        War can affect individuals and societies greatly. A family or individual's life can change completely. For instance, in OBAA Mawi and his family came from a refugee camp with little food and clean water to America with a surplus of all of that. A place with very little technology to a place where they were surrounded by technology They also had to to leave some of their friends and their culture. Societies are affected by war because they fall apart. The article says,"...mass migration of Syrians fleeing their civil war." If all of this is going on a country there must be anarchy in that country. There would be anarchy because the authorities are focused on the war and not the citizens.