The Lost Boy of Sultan

The term of “lost boy” is a group of Dinka orphan refugee. All of these lost boys’ parents are died (or missing) because of the civil war in Sultan. These boys are lucky; they escape from the rebels’ attack in their village, and ran to the nearby country for getting help from the refugees’ camp. A lot of lost boy stay in the refugees’ camp for their hole life, only some of them can be go to a developed country like the USA, Australia, Canada……. Two of the lost boy – Peter and Santino were the lucky one. They can go to the USA, to get education and better life. In the USA they met a lot of difficulties. Most of the lost boy haven’t leave the refugee camp for their hole life, so every thing out of refugees camp is really unfamiliar for them.  This is a brand new life for them. For the lost boys, friends are really important since they don’t really their family. In the USA they are alone, live without a friend, and tried to adapted the new life by them self. It’s hard to find a new friend because of the language understanding. The new environment make them become self- abased. Many people was always staring at them wherever they go, because of their skin color. That make them feel themselves was odd. Another thing that make them self-abased was because of their property. All of their American classmate have parent to take care of them, but Peter and Santino had to earn money by them self. They felt like they are different, they are the poor and their classmate were rich. They lost their self confident that they had before they came. However they were busy everyday, they went to school in the morning, worked in the afternoon, after they get back home they still need to studied and write their homework. They couldn’t do anything for all the difficulties; they knew that they got no choice. For many times, Peter and Santino complained about their life, and wish they could go back to the refugees to live with their old friend. Whenever they had this kind of mind, their friends will always remind them, America is better then the refugees’ camp, they are lucky that they can come.

Without those difficulties they met, the different culture is also a big problem. Because of the different culture identity, they sometime make a fool of themselves. In Africa, Peter and Santino were used to hold hand with boys, but in America boys holding hand with boys means they are homosexual. Some of the American are Christian, when Peter (or Santino) went to a party, every started to sing hymn, he have no idea what should he do. In the refugees’ camp, they don’t sing hymn. Also, they don’t understand the law in the USA. Peter (or Santino) didn’t get the license, but he still drive naturally. He didn’t notice that he actually made a break the law. In Peter(or Santino)’s friends birthday party, he didn’t know what should he bought for her, so he catch a bird for her. After live a while in the USA, they started to understand that they have to forget the way they think in Africa, used the American way to think in the USA.