A Place on Earth: Scenes from a War by: Anjan Sundaram
For this week’s blogpost, I have focused my study on the story of “A Place on Earth: Scenes from a War” by Anjan Sundaram, retelling a story of Sundaram’s experience of uncovering the pains and trials of the Central African Republic civil war. In Sundaram’s travels, he meets many people along his path that slowly give more and more detail to the narrative, that is the warfare between a tyrannical government and the people holding onto what is left to survive.
In my Google Fusion table, I took the main people Sundaram met on his travel across the Central African Republic and recorded who this person was, where this person was from, what Sundaram actually learned about the civil war from the person he interacted with, and the fears that they hold closely to them or the fear that motivates them. Furthermore, by illustrating the connections through a network graph, it shows a visual sense of community for most people have the similar common fear against the government. The only limitations that I feel that this network graph faces is that sometimes, it doesn’t visually express what exactly I’d like it to– in a sense that I would prefer if all the characters Sundaram met were attached to Sundaram as well as attaching the individual learnings the Sundaram gained to there respective people (making a 3-way linear connection); however, Google Fusion Tables only allows a connection between 2 different nodes rather than 3.
