Chapter 9 Questions / Vocab & adobe

1.1.While the boys get closer to the ocean they can hear the booming of the waves crashing down in a ferocious way.

2.2.Well the ocean helps him relax and enjoy life clearing his mind from all the bad things going on, I also love going to the beach to calm my nerves and become into a meditating mode.

3.3.The clustered huts were completely deserted and mortars lay in the sand, rice spilling out of them; jerry cans leaked water, and fires were left unattended under cooking huts.

4.4.Men or warriors from the deserted huts came out and chased the boys but couldn’t catch them until finally they did and took their shoes from them.

5.5.Well they attached the young boys because they too had heard the rumor that young boys were the ones killing helping the rebels, I was mistaken one time by a police helicopter and the cop car came to me but they had caught the guy a few blocks down so they just let me go and excused them selves.

6.6.Taking the shoes from the boys was a really bad punishment because that made them get blisters and mess up the bottom of their feet with the burning hot sand.

7.7.The group of boys cried in silence because they had no energy to cry and they also didn’t want to be heard by any one.

8.8.The strange man helped the boys out he gave them shelter and fed them and even healed their feet for them.

9.9.Musa is a boy that was with Ishmael who had a round face, he was short and bulky, with tiny round ears that matched his face, his eyes were big and looked as if they wanted to leave his face.

1.10.Kanei was also one of the boys in the group but he had a long and calm face, he was skinny and had short, really dark hair that he took great care of every morning.

11.Alhaji was also part of the group and he had really long arms and talked with elaborate gestures.

2.12.Jumah another one of the group used his head for gestures than his arms in which he kept behind him whenever he talked and nodded his head to the conversation.

3.13.The last two of the group were Saidu and Moriba in which were always together but apart from the group Saidu walked breathing heavily with large ears that stood up like a deer’s, while Moriba mostly played with his hands, examining the lines on his palm and rubbing his fingers as he whispered to himself.

4.14.I think if I compared with one of these boys I would compare with Saidu because he was a really quiet person and he seems really calm.

5.15.When Ishmael found the host he described him as a really nice man with the whitest teeth, never wore a shirt he was part of the village and the hut they stayed in was his fishing hut in which was only about half a mile away from the village, I have never met any one who was that nice but I can picture it in my head very clearly on someone being really nice to me.

6.16.When the kids were being chased they did get caught and tied in ropes and put in front of the tribe chief.

7.17.Ishmael turned and stopped running and told the guy chasing him to just tie him up and the guy did.

8.18.The chief of the village kept calling the boys devils and no one liked it.

9.19.Again like last time the cassettes of his music saved him and got him out of being killed.

10.20.Well I remember one time when I was skating in a parking lot some car was speeding and didn’t care for anyone’s safety by driving raucously hit me on the side of my foot and I fell hard and started cussing at the driver he then got out and said I'm sorry gave me a hundred dollar bill and I got up and skated away because it didn’t hurt that bad.

• •Simultaneously: existing, occurring, or operating at the same time;

• •Anesthesia : Medicine/Medical. general or local insensibility, as to pain and other sensation, induced by certain interventions or drugs to permit the performance of surgery or other painful procedures.

• •Hesitantly: hesitating; undecided, doubtful, or disinclined

• •Discouraged: to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit

• •Inevitable: unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary

• •Succession: the coming of one person or thing after another in order, sequence, or in the course of events

• •Subsided: to sink to a low or lower level.

• •Attentively: characterized by or giving attention; observant

• •Intricate: having many interrelated parts or facets; entangled or involved

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Chapter 8 Questions / Vocab & adobe

1.Well I think he felt as if someone was following him because he was traumatized and so hungry his mind was playing tricks on him, I think I can’t relate because that has never happened to me.
2.Death is what is always on his mind since every where he goes he sees it and is scared its going to happen to him.
3.His sleeping situation was not good at all because he had to sleep on tree branches which are one of the most uncomfortable things you can sleep on.
4.Well he ate what most of the birds were eating which looked like a lemon shape, with a mixture of yellow and red colors, and it seemed to smell like a mango/ orange, and the inside was a crusty, watery, fruity part with a really tiny seed.
5.The medicine his grandpa made was to enhance his brain and help him learn and take in new information he made it by writing a special Arabic prayer on a slate with ink that was made of another medicine, he then washed it off with water and that water was put into a bottle and drunken.
6.The hardest part of being in the forest was having to watch out for any rebels or any dangerous animals like baboons.
7.Well a time I wished I could stop thinking was when I got locked up I tried and tried but could not stop thinking of all my problems and all my debts to society but it just wouldn’t work.
8.His life in the forest wasn’t that bad because he had where to take baths he had some kind of plant to use as soap he had a lot of ripe fruit around to eat so it was all good for him.
9.His spirit was turned alive when the wild boars came running through the forest and came back to chase him half a mile away.
10.He was able to tell what tribe they were from because of the marks on their cheeks and their features.
11.This quote means that they have seen so much ugly and bad things they kind of went crazy. They were forced to grow up because they had to take care of themselves and survive.
12.Men were trying to kill them with machetes because there were rumors about “seven boys”, they thought they were killing people or causing trouble, but the men let them go when they realized they were just boys running away from the war.
13.The images kept making him walk faster, his body also twitched with fear, he also became dizzy. He was able to see the leaves swaying but he couldn't feel anything.
14.To keep himself occupied he finds things to do.
15.Ishamael does seem scared to be lost in the jungle, but when he try's to think of a way to leave he is to scared to think because he is probably safer in the forest anyways.
16.It is a risk to eat the strange fruit because he does not know if they are poisonous or not, but he figured if the birds eat them he can to.
17.The memories of his family made Ishamael sad. It makes him sad because he misses them and because they are not around anymore and it brings a lot of sad thoughts.
18.He used a particular type of grass. When he squeezed a lot of grass together foam would come out and it would leave his body clean and fresh.
19.Ishamael is very lonely. When he is lonely he starts thinking to much , he didn’t like thinking to much because every thought was a sad one. He would think about where his life was going and where his family and friends were.
20.Some dangers that are beginning to scare him are coming in contact with the wild animals.
21.I think when Ishamael thinks about his family it just makes him sadder, but I think it probably makes him stronger also because he was a bigger strive to survive.
22.He was in the forest for a little over a month.
23.He ran into 6 boys that he went to school with. There names were Alhaji, Saidu, Kanei, Jumah, and Moriba and Musa.
24.He was able to tell what tribe they were from because of the marks on their cheeks and their features.
25.One of the boys asked him a question a Ishamael did not reply, so the boy Kanei tapped him on the shoulder and told him everything will turn out ok later.

• •Suitable: appropriate; fitting; becoming

• •Familiarize: to make (oneself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something

• •Vicinity: the area or region near or about a place; surrounding district; neighborhood

• •Irresistibly: not resistible; incapable of being resisted or withstood

• •Hesitantly: hesitating; undecided, doubtful, or disinclined

• •Medicinal: of, pertaining to, or having the properties of a medicine; curative; remedial

• •Visualize: to make visual or visible.

• •Notorious: widely and unfavorably known

• •Lured: anything that attracts, entices, or allures

Chapter 7 Questions / Vocab & adobe

1.It happened unexpectedly one night, the rebels just walked into the village from out of nowhere.
2.Imam is the person who leads the prayer. The rebels captured him and bound his hands and feet with wire, and tied him to a iron pole n set him on fire.
3.The boys got separated because, Junior was in the verandah room where all five slept and his brother was outside sitting on the steps.
4.Well not really because it does not relate to me.
5.His main source of diet was oranges that he pick up in every village he slept in.
6.His trying to get to Bonthe. Because, its one of the safest place at that time.
7.The man and his family treated him like if he didn’t want them around them and didn’t trust them. Because, they couldn’t even trust a 12 year old boy anymore.
8.Because they didn’t expect the attack to be so fast.
9.The rebels tortured him and cut his arms and legs and tied him down to a iron pole and set him into fire but he died before he was completely burn.
10.No, they got separated when they attack the village before Bonthe.
11.Because, it’s a safe place at the time he was there.
12.The village was all burn down and parts of Imam were found in the iron pole and there was no signs to tell what the village name was.
13.Ishmael feels afraid of getting caught by the rebels.
14.Yes I have like climbing a rock wall in 6th grade.
15.Because the family though he was a rebel and didn’t trust him around them.
16.Ishmael probably feels bad by not being trusted by the family when his a good boy that just los his whole family.

• •Oblivious- forgetful; without remembrance or memory.

• •Vigorously- powerful in action or effect.

• •Demanded- to ask for with proper authority.

• •Possibilities- the state or fact of being possible.

• •Motioned- the action or process of moving or of changing place or position.

• •Thatched- a covering of such a material.

• •Mounted- having or set in a mounting.

• •Pretending- to appear falsely, as to deceive.

Chapter 6 Questions / Vocab & adobe

1.Well one advantage of being in a group of six boys is that you have more lookouts. A disadvantage of being in a group that big is it’s a bigger chance of getting caught.
2.The children were feared because they were used to kill their own families.
3.Well the group of boys avoided confrontation with people in villages by staying out of the way of them.
4.The consequence of war was that everyone was against outsiders.
5.The boys were saved by a kid that somehow knew all of their names.
6.The chief wanted the group to be drowned because he thought they were lying to him.
7.Ishmael escaped death again by getting lucky and having some kid actually know his name, and his relationship with his brother is very strong in love wise.
8.Ishmael’s internal conflict that involves his brother J.R. is that he is scared of losing him like the rest of his family.
9.The season is around Spring because he explains it with lots of leaves on the floor and kind of wet.
10.They poured wine in the soil as part of a ceremony to thank the ancestors and gods for providing fertile soil, healthy rice, and a successful farming year.
11.He saw that since there were a lot of kids altogether he knew that they would end up getting caught.
12.The backbreaking work of clearing a bush was so hard his palms flesh were peeling, they were swollen, and blistered.
13. The reason why Ishmael and his brother were misfits in their community was because they fought with every kid, they would beat kids who they thought talked bad about them.
14.Yes, I can relate to growing up as a misfit because I was a weird kid who liked to see kids hurt.
15.The reason why Ishmael got into a lot of fights was because he beat kids up who would look at him as if their parents were talking bad about him and his brother.
16.The significance of the ending of this chapter was a sad one because he and his brother along with his friends were all separated.

•Massacres- The act or an instance of killing a large number of humans indiscriminately and cruelly.
•Voluntary-Done or undertaken of one's own free will.
•Parables-A simple story illustrating a moral or religious lesson.
•Blistered- local swelling of the skin that contains watery fluid and is caused by burning or irritation.
•Midday-The middle of the day; noon.
•Engulfed-To swallow up or overwhelm by or as if by overflowing and enclosing
•Scouting-The act of one that scouts.
•Fertile-Bearing or producing crops or vegetation abundantly; fruitful.
•Pitied-Sympathy and sorrow aroused by the misfortune or suffering of another.
•Occasional-Occurring from time to time.