The Changes We All Face And SomeHarder Than Others

The biggest trouble with migrating to another country is the getting use to the culture over there. Well if you think you have had a hard time getting through your transfer from one country to another for a job that your parents had or for an education, the LOST BOYS have it even harder.
These boys were refugees for nearly 11 years and only 4 thousand out off 10,000 other boys were transferred throughout America for a better life.

In this supposedly better life, Santino Majok Chuor has faced a money hungry world, laws that he doesn't even know of, a lack of education and the trouble most of us face, fitting in. Now, to get this straight, Santino and the other Lost Boys were promised a better life that was like a haven for them, but they were tricked. Santino was struggling to pay his rent due to having cheesy career and getting a salary of 7$ and hour. With that little money, he also struggles to balance feeding himself and sending money to his old refugee camp to help his family and friends. Also without the knowledge of the laws in America, Santino is clueless about the system and how things work there. At the refugee camp Santino had promised to not forget his culture, but that doesn't mean to stay with the same Sudanese people and not trying to mix up your relations with other cultures to fit into America better.

Santino's first impression of America was that it was heaven, but after 3-4 months in America, Santino's culture shock started. Everything was so different to Santino, in Sudan, the men would be able to hold hands and not look homosexual, but due to the stereotypical assumptions in America, Sudan has excepted this view and adapted to this easy cultural difference. Another adaption that Santino was dealing with was another stereotype in which states that Blacks are bad people and that anyone with that skin color is a bad person. Santino did not really adapt to this idea, but instead he tried to be a better person by being kind and polite. So in a way, he is trying to prove to the people of America that they can do something in the world that does not always lead to crime.

With promises and expectations crushed, and a life full of hardships, Santino has lived a not so promising life. Santino didn't even follow his responsibilities that were given to him by the elders at the refugee camp, so he has failed in helping his people, failed to fully adapt his new culture and also failed to make something of his new life.