Do you ever feel that life is just not fair? In the book Of Beetles and Angels Mawi Asgedom, the author writes about his life and how he had overcome obstacles in his life. He lives in Sudan as a refugee with a very hard life until his family, mother, father, brother, and two sisters move to America. He goes to school there and doesn’t know anyone or anything, everything is new to him. But he works hard and does very well in school. Growing up as a refugee in the U.S., Mawi overcame the obstacles of bullying, grief, and issues with money, which motivated him to work hard in life.
One of the obstacles that Mawi faces is bullying in school from his classmates. Bullying in was hard for Mawi he wouldn’t always know what the kids were saying but he could tell by the laughter that it was not friendly. “African boodie-scratcher! Scratch that boodie!” Mawi and his brother were only two and as the bullying went along with it were fights. There were so many fights that their father said that they had to stop fighting even though they were accustomed to it in Sudan. So they had to take and could do nothing to…show more content… When Mawi lost his brother moving on was very hard for him, he wanted to drop everything. “I almost abandoned my dreams of becoming a top student and earning a scholarship. But I loved my family too much to give up.” Mawi says that he loves his family too much to give up and he realizes that if his brother was still alive he would not give up. So to help him to overcome his grief he always remembers and keeps his brother in his heart. Later on in Mawi’s life, he faces another death in his family and even more grief flooded his life. “One night, while my father rode his bike near our home, a drunk driver stole his life.” Mawi overcame this by remembering his brother and how not to give up and having the memories of his father. Without this he would not have been able
