Chapter 13 Questions / Vocab & adobe

1.1.The corporal tells them to worship their lord because they needed to get ready to go to war.

2.2.The boys made two teams and played to see which team captures the other first.

3.3.The bag of tablets were kind of energy boosters that help you stay awake.

4.4.Ishmael had tears in his eyes because he did not want to die.

5.5.Ishmael did not feel anything but he kept having flashes in his mind about people dying.

6.6.I don’t think I would freeze up because if someone was the cause of my life being trashed up liked that I would have no problem killing them.

7.7.Josiah was too weak he couldn’t handle firing his gun so when he did he flew back and broke his spine.

8.8.The image of people dying is what keeps going through his head.

9.9.He wasn’t scared of the lifeless bodies he was actually kind of mad at them.

10.10.He lost Josiah and Musa in this chapter.

11.11.He dreamt about Josiah and an enemy pointing a gun at his forehead, and then he started shooting his gun in the room.

12.12.On their day off they played soccer and went out for a swim.

13.13.The boys were wearing army shorts and green t-shirts.

14.14.The corporal ordered them to kill any one who did not have a green bandanna on their head.

15.15.The boy standing next to him fell because he had too much ammunition in his back pack.

16.16.Ishmael made a pact with his friends and it was to stick together.

17.17.Massacre because people are dropping dead every second.

18.18.He thinks the trees were all holding hands and bowing their heads in prayer.

19.19.Well they all wore regular civilian clothes in fact one kid wore a Tupac Shakur shirt.

20.20.He dreamt about helping his friend Josiah and a gunman then pointing at his head and he then jumped up shooting his gun in the air.

Inspection- the act of inspecting or viewing, esp. carefully or critically.

•Readied- completely prepared or in fit condition for immediate action or use.

•Capsules- a gelatinous case enclosing a dose of medicine.

•Tormented- to afflict with great bodily or mental suffering.

•Gradually- taking place, changing, moving, etc., by small degrees or little by little.

•Massacres- the unnecessary, indiscriminate killing of a large number of human beings or animals, as in barbarous warfare or persecution or for revenge or plunder.

•Reverie- a state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing.

•Effectiveness- adequate to accomplish a purpose; producing the intended or expected result.

Chapter 12 Questions Part 2

1.I actually do think Ishmael is safe with the soldiers because they can actually defend them selves from the rebels.
2.The mood in the village is kind of a little worried because the rebels seem to have been winning every battle the good guys have fought against them.
3.The villages mood darkened when the soldiers said there might be a chance the village is going lose the war to the rebels.
4.In the evenings the soldiers would clean their guns and sometimes fire some rounds into the air for practice.
5.Well the reason why Ishmael would busy himself all day was because then he would start thinking of really bad things and about his family and by staying busy all day he wouldn’t think of anything but work.
6.The soccer games made him miss his family and village more and more every time he would watch all the others play.
7.While others played games in the village he would go around the back and sit there thinking of absolutely nothing well at least trying to.
8.The reason he was getting the migraines was because he kept thinking of all the dead people over and over again until his head started to hurt bad.
9.Well lieutenant Jabati was a nice educated man as it seems for the reason that he was reading Shakespeare.
10.Ishmael liked reading Shakespeare because he loved the stories that were written and he liked to act out the plays.
11.When the story says only few of the soldiers returned it was because many would die in battle and not be able to make it back home.
12.When the soldiers brought back prisoners they would line them up and shoot them in the head.
13.The bodies that were shown to the villagers were a boy and a man who lived in the village who decided to leave and were killed by the rebels.
14.The rebels did not care how they killed you who they killed and why they killed you they will kill you if they see you.
15.The woman and children had to help in the kitchen and the boys and men had to get training with a weapon to be ready to go to war.
16.Ishmael's tent companions were his friends that had been with him all along his journey.
17.Ishmael’s tapes were burnt along with his pants.
18.The soldiers who were coming back from the front line came back terrified and really scared to go back.
19.That the rebels are the reason why they ended up living this way and the rebels are the ones who killed their family.
20.He started thinking about how he kill every soldier he could kill and give them no mercy.

Chapter 12 Questions Part 1 / Vocab & adobe

1.1.The men were all scary looking that they could not be able to stare them into their eyes.

2.2.The setting is they are in a safe camp helping the good guys.

3.3.They lived actually good because the village was full of soldiers who made them go inside their tents at certain times to avoid any of them dying and they helped cook for the soldiers as well as making ammunition for them.

4.4.Well he did it because he was kind of traumatized and he just always wanted to be alone.

5.5.He kept dreaming of innocent people dying, and I have a dream that I have had ever since I was a child which I am staring into a black hole and I cannot move as if something is on top of me holding me down.

6.6.The lieutenant seems like a really nice person who is always concerned for those who help him stay alive.

7.7.Ishmael does join the fight against the rebels, and I would of too because for the reason that they are the reason why my life is all messed up.

8.8.The lieutenant keeps telling the boys that the rebels are the reason why their family is dead.

9.9.Well it wasn’t that hard for him its just he is kind of nervous because he knows that he cannot back down any more.

10.10.They used the banana tree to help them get used to stabbing people or the rebels.

• •Agonizing- accompanied by, filled with, or resulting in agony or distress

• •Complemented- having a complement or complements.

• •Latrines- a toilet or something used as a toilet, as a trench in the earth in a camp, or bivouac area.

• •Colleagues- an associate.

• •Various- of different kinds, as two or more things; differing one from another

• •Gruesome- causing great horror

• •Dilemma- a situation requiring a choice between equally undesirable alternatives.

• •Megaphone- a cone-shaped device for magnifying or directing the voice, chiefly used in addressing a large audience out of doors or in calling to someone at a distance.

• •Tarpaulin- a protective covering of canvas or other material waterproofed with tar, paint, or wax.

• •Dilapidated- reduced to or fallen into partial ruin or decay, as from age, wear, or neglect.

• •Countenance- appearance, esp. the look or expression of the face

• •Cherishing- to hold or treat as dear; feel love for

Chapter 11 Questions / Vocab & adobe

1.They had a little burial ceremony in the mans house in the living room.

2.He was a notorious single man in his town who new Ishmaels family.

3.He said that his family has been talking about him for days, and praying for his safety.

4.Ishmael was really excited and eager to get to the village.

5.They heard gunshots, dogs barking, and people screaming and crying.

6.The village was on fire, with bullet shells covering the entire ground.

7.He began screaming because he saw more than twenty people all lined up face down with blood pouring from their bullet wounds.

8.The whole house was on fire with no trace of his family.

9.He had a guilty feeling because he hit Gasemu for what had happened to his family.

10.They were acting proud of killing people and accomplished, as if they did something good.

11.They were boasting about not letting anybody getting away.

12.As a matter of a fact I do know a-holes like the rebels but I cannot relate to any of the situations.

13.He had gotten shot by the rebels and died, telling the boys to go to a village where people processed coffee and other crops.

14.He felt a little at ease, and hopeful that he would get to see his family soon.

15.They felt excitement and impatience over coming them.

16.Yes, that happens all the time because I have a lot of flakes in my life.

17.I think they did and they are going to be ok.

•Vehemently-characterized by rancor or anger
•Executed-to carry out
•Boasting-to speak with exaggeration and excessive pride, esp. about oneself.
•Hesitantly-lacking readiness of speech.
•Motioned-the action or process of moving or of changing place or position; movement.
•Emerged-to come forth into view or notice, as from concealment or obscurity
•Grieve-to feel grief or great sorrow

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Chapter 10 Questions / Vocab & adobe

1.1.The boys felt welcomed when asked to go hunting and feast with the villagers.

2.2.When he would play tricks on his brother his grandma would call him a spider.

3.3.He missed how he would mess around with his brother and his whole family was always smiling.

4.4.They didn’t want to hear the story of the spider because they had already heard it many times.

5.5.That tells me that the community is very close together and that everyone treats each other like family.

6.6.The dog was the one who took the remaining of the meat.

7.7.I think Saidu had the worst since his sisters and mother were raped in front of him and his father.

8.8.I do think that the people passing by were just ghost because my beliefs state that crows represent the dead.

9.9.I think the dogs saw death that is why they were crying and what a coincidence that one of the boys died.

10.10.I think eating the crow was what had killed Saidu.

11.11.I have when my grandfather passed away I also felt like he did and I just was too in shock I wouldn’t cry.

12.12.The unsettling thing about Ishmael’s journey is that he has good luck evading the rebels but he keeps getting into worse situations.

13.13.The boys are always on the move because the rebels can come at any time and they can all be killed.

14.14.In the beginning of the chapter he is like not fully happy but really concerned.

15.15.He compares his journey with the moon.

16.16.When Saidu says that he means he knows that death is calling him and its just a matter of time before he is gone.

17.17.Spider’s symbolize a tricky person in their culture.

18.18.Well one of my fondest memories with my family was when I actually lived with all of them at the same exact time.

19.19.Musa’s family was separated while a raid in Mattru Jong and he had been running ever since.

20.20.Alhaji was at river fetching water when the rebels attacked and as he went back to his home he found an empty home.

21.21.Kanei’s story was he had escaped the rebels along with his parents by jumping inside of a boat when the rebels shot it down he swam to the shore and had escaped the rebels while everyone else in the boat was killed.

22.22.Jumah and Moriba’s story was that as being neighbors rebels attacked and they ran to the forest to look for their parents but found no one.

23.23.Saidu’s family was unable to leave town because they were also surprised by the rebels and he listened in on his sisters being raped while his dad shouted to stop.

24.24.Saidu’s sisters were all raped while his mother and father watched.

25.25.To me the crow falling form the sky means that death is up ahead.

26.26.The dogs were crying because they could see death around the group of boys.

27.27.Saidu was the one who died and they gave him a ceremonial burial so he can rest in peace.

28.28.When someone dies in my culture they are given a catholic bible speech and sprinkled with holy water.

29.29.The fore shadow of death was when the crow came from the sky.

•Uncertain-not definitely ascertainable or fixed, as in time of occurrence, number, dimensions, or quality.
•Slender-having a circumference that is small in proportion to the height or length
•Coaxed-to attempt to influence by gentle persuasion, flattery, etc.
•Admitted-to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to
•Quarrel-a disagreement marked by a temporary or permanent break in friendly relations.
•Obstructing-to block or close up with an obstacle

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