Devay Impressions on Three Lost Boys Blog 3

Impressions on book

When first reading the first couple pages to this book I didn’t really think it was the book for me, only because I’m not so into the culture related things. The characters in the book are very detailed and are described well. Page x “tall around six feet, they dressed like prep students, have short cropped hair, and beautiful, impossibly black flawless skin”. Once really getting into the book I started to like the older brother Benson. Benson showed an example on how to protect family and provide for them.  “He kept the lions away from the younger ones”. The way that Benson and his brothers grew up was to fight for their lives and seeing things that shouldn’t be seen at such a young age. I expected for the three boys to come in America with kind of raggedy clothes and just look very uncleanly.

The older brother Benson plays a huge and major role in this book because he is the covering over the younger brothers and he shows them how to grow up and protect themselves. I like how Benson writes the letter to Joseph in such detail of what had happen and what he has seen and been through back in Sudan.

I choose this book because I felt like there could have been a connection between the story and my life. The book title kind of made the book seem like it was a true story that was in the past time and pieces of history. I like to learn past tense things because it opens your mind to different time zones in the world.  This book is very different from the books I read and my favorite books my favorite books have to do with more so family related things and series of books that back them up. What really drew me to this book was the name of the book “They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky”. Where did that name come from and who poured fire on them from the sky? Those are the type of questions that came to my mind when first hearing about this book that drew me in.