ch 6 ?

1.Some advantages are that your a bigger group so you can help each other out. disadvantages are that you have to share food and you may been seen easier because its a bigger group of people.2. They might be mistaken for a refugee and be forced to do things that they don't want to.3. They would walk by the nearby bushes.4. Consequences of the war were that people stopped trusting each other and every stranger became an enemy.5. A boy from Mattru Jong saved them.6.He offered them a place to stay in his village.9.It was the season for planting and rain was falling.10. They did it as part of a ceremony to than the ancestors and the gods for providing fertile soil, healthy rice, and a successful farming year.11. He saw that tough days lay ahead. 12.It was difficult to chop them down they had to use axes and swing machetes the weight of the axes would sometimes send them flying.13.They were misfits of their community because they did not have a mother at home.14.Yes i can relate to being a misfit because i use to always be in trouble and stuff like that.15. He got into a lot of fights because he was always getting picked on.16. The significance of the ending of the chapter is that it is very sad and that was the last time he ever saw his brother.

ch 5 ?

•Ishmael was starving.•They were getting irritable because they were very hungry. They needed food really bad.•There is six of them running away.•Ishmael and his friends jumped a little five year old for two ears of corn.•His mom didn’t get angry instead she gave them more food. If I was in the same situation they were in, in Sierra Leone, I would because I would want someone to do the same for me.•The boys were walking through a grassy area when the rebels stopped and pulled guns on them to taunt them. I would have stood there just like they did if there was a chance for me to live.•The rebels dressed as Americans do, red rags on their head, and a lot of expensive jewelry. Their attitudes was as if they were the best and nobody else could harm them. They were all younger than 21.•The old man who was trying to escape was taunted, scared by a gun shot, and he fainted.•In their culture your suppose to the up most respect for the elders. I my culture I think it should be the same as theirs because the elder people deserve it because they are much wiser than we are.•They chose the people who looked strongest to them.•The new recruits had to kill the people who weren’t chosen. I have been pressured to do something. In eighth grade I had to slap a girl or I was a wimp and I did it.•The rebels here shooting so they started shooting back while the hostages escaped into the forest.•I think no one talked until dawn because they were traumatized but at the same time the were afraid the rebels would find them.•The incident scared the boys deeply so they decided to leave to somewhere safe to get away.

ch 4 ?

1.His life was going bad because him and his brother was separated from his family everything was going down hill.2.To get some money that they had left behind for food.3.They saw rotten pots of food, bodies, furniture, clothes.4.The houses were looted there was bullet holes in door frames and broken glass.5.They were happy because they had found money.6.They did not eat becasue the people were not selling food.7.They stole peoples food so they could get through the night.

ch 3 ?

•I have not experienced anything like what Ishmael experienced, and I also haven’t had a traumatizing experience.•Some examples of war that I read about in this chapter are boys carrying AK-47 on their backs, the dead bodies everywhere, and the boy shooting at the other group and vise-versa.•Ishmael had been in New York for a month. I don’t think he will be okay after his experience in Sierra Leon.•Some boys in the U.S. have calm laid back life and they take education for granted. Some boys in Sierra Leon don’t take education for granted and they also don’t have the accessories to life that we have. All of the boys go through trial (some more than others) and like some sort of rap music.•I think the memories are bad memories. War memories are always bad because they involve death.•Part Two-–In the first two paragraphs Ishmael is in a quiet town. There were dead bodies everywhere. The only life that was sensed was his own. There was blood everywhere. He was in a place where the war hit hard.–The last two paragraphs take place in New York, in Ishmael’s home. It is night time and Ishmael keeps having flashbacks of his past. He refers to it as dream world. His dreams take place in his past at a battle with other boys on a soccer field. They also sit and eat on dead bodies.–He says he lives in three worlds which are his dreams, his experiences of his new life, which trigger memories from the past. He means in his eyes he is trapped by the story of his past and can’t avoid it.

ch 2 ?

•I have not experienced anything like what Ishmael experienced, and I also haven’t had a traumatizing experience.•Some examples of war that I read about in this chapter are boys carrying AK-47 on their backs, the dead bodies everywhere, and the boy shooting at the other group and vise-versa.•Ishmael had been in New York for a month. I don’t think he will be okay after his experience in Sierra Leon.•Some boys in the U.S. have calm laid back life and they take education for granted. Some boys in Sierra Leon don’t take education for granted and they also don’t have the accessories to life that we have. All of the boys go through trial (some more than others) and like some sort of rap music.•I think the memories are bad memories. War memories are always bad because they involve death.•Part Two-–In the first two paragraphs Ishmael is in a quiet town. There were dead bodies everywhere. The only life that was sensed was his own. There was blood everywhere. He was in a place where the war hit hard.–The last two paragraphs take place in New York, in Ishmael’s home. It is night time and Ishmael keeps having flashbacks of his past. He refers to it as dream world. His dreams take place in his past at a battle with other boys on a soccer field. They also sit and eat on dead bodies.–He says he lives in three worlds which are his dreams, his experiences of his new life, which trigger memories from the past. He means in his eyes he is trapped by the story of his past and can’t avoid it.

ch1?

•1. The Refugees that walked through the town were shocked at the Images of the attack.•2. Ishmael 12 years old when he was affected by the war.•3. The Boys were mesmerized by Rap and Hip Hop Music.•4. The boys were going 16 miles away to watch a friends talent show.•5. The boys wore a lot of clothes and carried sling shots.•6. The narrator reached the Vehicle before Junior and Talloi and avoided the pranks that they tried to pull.•7. The Narrator says that his Grandma looked very Beautiful and thought that his mom got her good looks from his Grandma. •9. At home he heard that the Rebels had attacked the Town and that some houses were destroyed.•10. They went to the Grandmas town to wait for the Main Characters Family.•11. The main Character is trying to avoid dying and goes with his family to find safety.•13. On there way to the Grandmas Village they found out the Rebels attacked there home and they wanted to get to Safety.