What is the What (edit title)

Jamie M edited the summary of What is the What Saturday, September 12 2009.

• This book gives you an understanding of the journey taken by Lost Boys who eventually made it to America. In America many educators initially questioned the desire the these young men to get education, but when you understand the challenges and dangers they face it becomes clear. In Eggers novel he shares examples of how heAchak Deng avoided becoming a part of the SPLA but at the same time understood why others were drawn to it. In some ways the battles that were waged between tribes were based on desire to obtain oil from industrialized nations. In other ways it emerged from generations of bad blood between tribes that practiced different religious faiths. Ultimately once EggersAchak and others like him made it to America they met people who encouraged them and many others that exploited them. The book is written in chapters that begin with his interaction with kind and sometimes cruel African Americans and it reflects back on his journey through African Deserts, avoiding lions, and gorilla armies that lured young men into service with promise of food and power. It is sad but occassionally funny.sad, sometimes funny and an inspiring account of human resiliency.

Jamie M edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of What is the What Saturday, September 12 2009.

• Edited: This fictionalization of Dave Eggersa Lost Boy's seperation from his family in Marial Bai and his 13 year journey to the US.

Jamie M edited the summary of What is the What Saturday, September 12 2009.

• This book gives you an understanding of the journey taken by Lost Boys who eventually made it to America. In America many educators initially questioned the desire the these young men to get education, but when you understand the challenges and dangers they face it becomes clear. In Eggers novel he shares examples of how he avoided becoming a part of the SPLA but at the same time understood why others were drawn to it. In some ways the battles that were waged between tribes were based on desire to obtain oil from industrialized nations. In other ways it emerged from generations of bad blood between tribes that practiced different religious faiths. Ultimately once Eggers and others like him made it to America they met people who encouraged them and many others that exploited them. The book is written in chapters that begin with his interaction with kind and sometimes cruel African Americans and it reflects back on his journey through African Deserts, avoiding lions, and gorilla armies that lured young men into service with promise of food and power. It is sad but occassionally funny.

Jamie M edited the ridiculously simplified synopsis of What is the What Saturday, September 12 2009.

• Added: This fictionalization of Dave Eggers seperation from his family in Marial Bai and his 13 year journey to the US.

Shelfari edited the description of What is the What Saturday, August 1 2009.

• In a heartrending and astonishing novel, Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life as he's driven from his home as a boy and walks, with thousands of orphans, to Ethiopia, where he finds safety — for a time. Valentino's travels, truly Biblical in scope, bring him in contact with government soldiers, janjaweed-like militias, liberation rebels, hyenas and lions, disease and starvation — and a string of unexpected romances. Ultimately, Valentino finds safety in Kenya and, just after the millennium, is finally resettled in the United States, from where this novel is narrated. In this book, written with expansive humanity and surprising humor, we come to understand the nature of the conflicts in Sudan, the refugee experience in America, the dreams of the Dinka people, and the challenge one indomitable man faces in a world collapsing around him.

Shelfari edited the contributors of What is the What Tuesday, July 21 2009.

• reordered the contributors.
• 1 : Dave Eggers:

Shelfari edited the first sentence of What is the What Friday, July 17 2009.

• I have no reason not to answer the door so I answer the door.

Shelfari edited the contributors of What is the What Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Added a contributor: Dave Eggers: (Primary Author)

Peiyu W edited the quotations of What is the What Sunday, July 12 2009.

• Added a quotation: “I am alive and you are alive so we must fill the air with our words”
• Added a quotation: “It would be almost as impossible as you pretending that I do not exist”