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The Year of no rain by Alice mead is about A civil war taking place in South Sudan.The story takes place in 1999 about a boy named Stephen and his friends when their village gets bombed by the soldiers.many people in his tribe dies including the helpless boys mother and the boys sister also gets abducted by the soldiers .Clearly now he and his friends must to try to get his sister back with very limited food supply and not much of any water to drink. They walked long nights but decided to turn back from heading to kenya and look for his sister.
In the book the Year of No Rain Stephen has changed from being inconsiderate and unconcerned to thoughtful and caring.He has done this by caring what people are doing and it will help him a lot on his quest to kenya.He says ¨Stop it,Would.It wïll make you sick.¨He is trying to stop wol from drinking the water because he will get very sick.He used to be inconsiderate like when the cows got out of Peter's pen and he blamed Peter for it when they may have just gotten out by themselves but now that it is just him and …show more content…

In 1999 there was a war in south sudan.The author Alice Mead wrote this book because she was interested in civil wars. The author’s purpose was to show nothing good comes out of war.one historical fact she was well aware of was many people died from war the war and they had lots of struggles to overcome while the war was happening.The

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