Since enduring the forced migration various young Dinka boys faced in the form of genocide, these children encountered multiple struggles to journey towards the refugee camps. However, not the harsh Sudan climate, nor hungry lions could ever prepare Peter, a Lost Boy from the Dinka tribe, for his experiences in America. Everyone in the refugee camp pictured America as heaven. Little did Peter know, it would make him feel more isolated and lonely than he ever was.
From his stay at Houston, Texas, Peter encountered a number of conflicts dealing with the contrast of culture within his stepped migration. There were a variety of things on his mind when he was assimilating to this strikingly different lifestyle. He must not hold hands or show affection with another man for fear of being labeled a homosexual. He had to manage his own budget, from a boring, minimum waged job and still have enough to send back to the refugee camps in which his friends and family lived in desperate need. He had to go to high school every week and deal with the stress that came as a result. And on top of all this, he had to face the pressure that his people put on him to seek some secret thing in the US that would save his Dinka friends and family. Yet he assimilated well into the brand new culture, managed a healthy lifestyle from his hard work while sending some of his wages home, maintained excellent grades in every subject and did all this with more or less a laid back, can-do attitude.
Did Peter really manage all this because of his cruel past? Did his harsh history make him that much stronger?
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