What is the What Blog 1 - Quarter 4 Blog 4

Recently I had started a new book called What is the What but I didn't really enjoy it. It was more of a confusing book after page 100. It speaks about a Sudanese life, Deng, who goes through the militias in the desert, wild animals, and often starvation. But he soon gets to America and his life starts to turn around. From the start of the book, he gets robbed of his things but his things were all from a church  that provided him with the couches, alarm clocks, VCR, and TV when he arrived from Sudan. But the reason why I didn't like the book was because of the fact that the author made connections between the recent events Deng had to go through.


I had wanted to read this book because I had liked the third person view of somebody's life and what they had to go through just like The Other Wes Moore. But What is the What was somewhat like it. When Deng was getting robbed, something caught my attention RIGHT AWAY. It was the fact that Deng had rather wanted to be in Sudan than to be getting robbed in America. He said that he was grateful for America because he was seeking a land without war, but these kind of things had never happened in Sudan. This just proves how America's society is a huge melting pot. It's like an ignorant child who wants every little thing in a candy store. But still, I am abandoning this book.