Let's see, how to describe this book? How to describe to thrilling chills and outburst of pure epic sadness and happiness? Well, I'll try.
Of Beetles and Angels, by Mawi Asegedom is an nonfiction book about his life growing up as a refugee in Sudan, moving to a suburb near Chicago, and then going to Harvard. Because of Civil War in Ethiopia, at a young age Mawi had to leave his town for Sudan. While there was still fighting in Sudan, it wasn't as bad as where he came from. When he Left Sudan for America, everything he was accustomed to changed. In America people celebrated weird holidays, and he couldn't fight people in school. His father laid down strict rules about how to not fight back, and to mind your own businesses. The father didn't want to arose any rumors about his family. Like he said, "You don't want more hurt on a lot of hurt."
It's kind of like a "rags to riches" story. Here is someone from nothing to someone with an opportunity to make something of himself. Unfortunately, Mawi steals meter near the basketball courts. Where I left off in the book, he was running away from the cops. Gee, if he was to be arrested that would ruin everything his dad taught him. I could see the shame in his family when Mawi would be in mail.
I'm not too sure of what the main idea of the book is yet. It's too early to tell but I have this sense of a 0-hero type story. Like I said, if he gets caught this would ruin that chance.
