Dave Egger's 'What Is The What'

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In the novel What Is the What by Dave Eggers, the real life story of Valentino Achak Deng. As it starts off in the United States, with the same seven year old, who had grown up in the village of Marial Bai, Southern Sudan. Valentino is a Dinka from the victimized south, abused by the corrupt Muslim regime.There were only small signs of war of given, and then shocking chains of events that led multiple children to escape from everything everything they knew. Since having to be separated from his family due to the Second Sudanese Civil War and then eventually joining “The Lost Boys of Sudan”. We are introduced to him as a young man, meeting confusing and unexpected obstacles as a recent immigrant to the U.S. As we are started off with a