Light at The End

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/27/world/africa/darfur-refugees-returning-home.html?_r=1&r=1&ref=world

            


               The Audience of this article by the New York Times, is the world wide audience that it informs. The Purpose for this article, is to inform us of the returning refugees to Darfur. It's Claim is that while things aren't good in Darfur by any stretch of the imagination, things are certainly getting better, and that people are starting to actually return to their homeland. In fact the first sentence of the article is, "More than 100,000 people in Darfur have left the sprawling camps where they had taken refuge for nearly a decade and headed home to their villages over the past year..." Evidnece to further support this claim, is that a former ghost town Nyuru, has recently had thousands of returning people. Of course though things aren't great as further on in the article it says "More than two million people remain stuck in internal displacement or refugee camps, and some rebel groups fight on." All in all though Abdallah Mohamed Abubakir, a skinny farmer, who had just brought his family back to Nyuru. says it best “Things aren’t great,” he said, “but they’re getting better.”

           How this article connects with a moment in the story: The best moment that I could think of, would actually be the entire period in the story of when Gerda is in rehabilitation in the School-turned-hospital after she had been rescued by Kurt and the other American soldiers. Things are a lot better for Gerda she is able to say that she is out of danger, like many former refugees were showing that things are most definately better. But the war itself continues to clamber on, as does the Darfur conflict, meaning things obviously aren't perfect by any stretch of the imagination. Also, Gerda is like the refugees coming back home as well; begining to re-introduce herself to the world and in her case quite litteraly taking those first steps on the road to recovery, as the Darfurians are taking their first steps back into normalcy. Both of these stories or at least these parts of the stories are optimistic in showing although there is still much work to be done, things are definately getting better.