Chapter 21 Questions / Vocab. & adobe

1.The thought that he was walking in a moving sidewalk in the Amsterdam airport.

2.He had never seen so many white people in one place like the ones in New York.

3.His school back at his home had only a small building, made of mud bricks and a tin roof not like ours is so big and full of technology.

4.The kids would help their teacher with his crops to make money for themselves and for the school.

5.No one sat close to him and Mohamed because somehow they all new that they were child soldiers and they thought that they could snap and kill someone.

6.I myself would not be nervous to be friends with them I would think that its kind of cool that they had gotten to receive that experience.

7.It was May 25, 1997 when the loud gunshots went off in his city.

8.The cause of the noise were gunshots that were being fired because of the rebels that had made it to the city.

9.Some of the newly freed prisoners went straight to the home of the prosecutors who had put them in jail and shot their whole family including them.

10.I think that it is kind of sad but this should happen here in the U.S because the government as much as they say they are fair are not.

11.Their prison system is different because if something like that happened here they would not release the prisoners and hand them guns.

12.I would be shocked and try to find a gun and go around killing those I hate.

13.The city after it went lawlessness went crazy with people killing people and soldiers breaking into banks.

14.I think not many people would survive if we were lawless and I would not like to live in it because if I steal something then others can go into my house and steal all we have.

15.The rebels blew up safes and took the money.

16.The secret market sold food supplies at a high cost.

17.The rebels ordered for everyone to drop their supplies and stop moving.

18.The civilians were dying because they did not have food or because the rebels just killed them for no reason.

19.Mohammed stayed back in the city while Ishmael went on his trip to reach America.

20.The gunshots lasted all day long and all night.

21.People ate the little they had left.

22.His uncle had gotten sick and was not getting any better.

23.Some of his rehabilitated friends went straight back to joining the war.

24.I don’t think so because then I would have a big chance of dying because it seemed as if the army was getting stronger.

25.The only way of getting out of Freetown with out getting killed was taking a buss out of the city creakingly.

26.Their final destination was in Kambia outside of his home country.

27.I think the soldiers were so strict of searching them because they did not want any of the passengers to be undercover rebels.

28.There was one available seat left on the buss for him.

29.He did make it out of Freetown alive and was on his second journey to America.

30.I think the many times he escaped death was because he had a purpose in life and it was not his time to go yet.

31.I think Ishmael can offer experience stories to those who have not yet experienced war yet.

32.I think the story of the monkey was to see if you be a killer in the first place.

33.There is one saying my grandma used to tell which was in Spanish saying the lazy one works twice as hard which whenever I tried to do something the fast way I had to work twice as hard.

•Primary- first or highest in rank or importance.

•Tingling- to cause such a sensation.

•Vaults- a strong metal cabinet, usually fireproof and burglarproof, for the storage and safekeeping of valuables, important papers, etc.

•Looting- spoils or plunder taken by pillaging, as in war.

•Conducted- personal behavior.

•Halt- to stop.

•Reconcile- to win over to friendliness.

•Residue- something that remains after a part is removed, disposed of, or used.

•Auspices- support.

•Predicament- an unpleasantly difficult, perplexing, or dangerous situation
Apprentice- a person who works for another in order to learn a trade.

Chapter 20 Questions / Vocab. & adobe

1. His vision of New York City before he got there was from his rap music.
2. I think New York is all full of graffiti and is all bum mish looking.
3. He did not know what winter was because in Sierra Leone it never gets that cold, and he had heard of winter from Shakespeare.
4. When he had first felt NYC’s weather he thought it was the coldest thing had ever felt.
5. A time where I felt culture shock was never because I have always experienced all of my cultures physically.
6. They are staying in the YMCA hotel by 47th street.
7. There are children from all over the world and different countries.
8. He was baffled by the food because he had never seen food like that before and also it was hard to adjust because he was so used to his old life.
9. He learned that all the other children there were there because they all had gone through something similar in their past.
10. Laura Simms is an instructor that told stories to everyone, she was a short lady with long black hair and bright eyes.
11. He did not accept the jacket because he said it was a girls jacket, and I would not either because I rather be cold than look like a fruity kid.
12. Well when he and Madoka visited Time Square he stated seeing big screens with commercials on them some with flashing words, some with underwear models, and other types of commercials.
13. The conference was so the people there could know about them and everyone could learn about how their countries were and he felt as if he were very nervous.
14. Ishmael talks about how he had to become a soldier to be able to support his family but turns out that his family ended up dying, and I liked the sentence where he states “ it was not easy being a soldier, but we had to do it”, because it is very true any where you go.
15. Yes, I do agree with his speech because he told the truth and everyone was astonished about it.
16. One experience I had had a while ago and I still have to work on it till this day was when I got into trouble with the law for the last time I still have to pay a large amount of money in order to be set free.
17. I think music and dancing is a big part of his life because its what he has done ever since all of the problems started.
18. He left New York City on November 15, 1996 in which his birth date was only six days away.
19. He was going back where his uncle lived after he had had his fun and terrific experience in New York City.
20. I think he is going to be chosen to go back to New York City and live there for the rest of his life.
21. I think his life is going to be different back in Sierra Leone because he has a really good experience that no one else around there has.
22. I think he will return to the group he was from but maybe not all of the others will be chosen to go back.
23. I have experience growth from something negative when I was 15 my mom and I had a big fight and I thought I was never going to talk with her again but it actually brought us together more.

• Generate- to create by a vital or natural process.
• Accumulating- to gather or collect, often in gradual degrees.
• Radiator- a device constructed from thin-walled tubes and metal fins, used for cooling circulating water, as in an automobile engine.
• Baffled- to confuse, bewilder, or perplex.
• Facilitators- a person or thing that facilitates.
• Compelling- having a powerful and irresistible effect.
• Awe- an overwhelming feeling of reverence, admiration, fear, etc., produced by that which is grand, sublime, extremely powerful, or the like.
• Oriented- to familiarize (a person) with new surroundings or circumstances, or the like.
• Overwhelmed- to overcome completely in mind or feeling.
• Mesmerized- to hypnotize.
• Aimlessly- without aim.
• Influential- having or exerting influence.