Chapter 17 Questions / Vocab & adobe

1. 1.The nurse is a really nice girl and she seems to have a thing for Ishmael.
2. Ishmael’s friends teased him about hanging out with the nurse all the time and I have been in that situation when I was in sixth grade I had a crush on this girl and everyone knew but her until they told her and we finally were boyfriend and girlfriend.
3. The nurse let Ishmael know that if they were going to be friends that he was going to be like her brother.
4. He would say stuff like that because he feels the war and everything that happened to him he hated his life and everyone in it.
5. I have never been in a situation that is like how Ishmael is in.
6. The nurse gave Ishmael a walkman with a RUN DMC cassette.
7. Ishmael reacts with lots of surprise in because he was shocked to see the gift he had received and he hadn’t seen that in a lng time.
8. He shot hem down and shot each one face to face because they had shot him.
9. Esther was so sad she felt like crying and wanted to keep hugging Ishmael but he wouldn’t let her.
10. Esther didn’t want Ishmael to take the walkman with him because she was worried someone would steal it form him.
11. The thing that stood out the most from Ishmael’s story was his age.
12. I think his lieutenant was really nice but in a way he was taking advantage by brainwashing them into going to war.
13. Ishmael has been injured many times by bullets just missing him or by explosions.
14. He started having flashbacks about killing and blood everywhere.
15. The doctors gave him a prescription for all of his scars and nurse Esther had to rub it on him.
16. The worst thing I have ever endured was when I got into a fight with my brother and he pushed me into a second story buildings railing and the railing broke and I fell with it.
17. He got up and was shocked at the situation and demanded to go back to the rehab center.
18. He fired an entire round of shots at the bush were the shots had came from.
19. He felt so bad as if he were traumatized and I have had flashbacks of when my father was nice and actually acted like my father.
20. Esther went to visit Ishmael on her day off because she wanted to take him to pick up his medication and to eat dinner at her house.
21. They got a Bob Marley cassette for him.
22. I think it’s a passion for him because it lets him forget about everything and he concentrates on one thing only.
23. No I have never written a song but I think its like an another way of art for people to try and express themselves in a poetic way
24. Ishmael liked the stories because he thought about his ancestors and how everything was all messed up.
25. My favorite Bob Marley song is weed with bone thugs and harmony because it is hip-hop slash reggae roots and that is my favorite kind of music.
26. Ishmael started to believe the phrase every little thing is going to be alright because the way Esther said it.
27. I think my girlfriend is my savior because of her I started looking at life a different way and I started wanting to succeed in school.
28. Ishmael liked talking to Esther because she was good at speaking and convincing him that life was going to be alright.

• •Delved- to carry on intensive and thorough research for data, information, or the like.
• Conversation- the ability to talk socially with others.
• Burdensome- troublesome.
• Wharf- a structure built on the shore of or projecting into a harbor, stream, etc., so that vessels may be moored alongside to load or unload or to lie at rest.
• Cringe- to fawn.
• Genuine- properly so called.
• Anguish- excruciating or acute distress, suffering, or pain.
• Rastafarianism- a religious cult, originally of Jamaica, that regards Africa as the Promised Land, to which all true believers will someday return, and the late Haile Selassie I, former emperor of Ethiopia, as the messiah origin.
• Destination- the place to which a person or thing travels or is sent.
• Somber- gloomy, depressing, or dismal.

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