1.Some advantages of being a group of six boys is that they can escape day to day troubles. This disadvantage was that they were more noticeable and looked suspicious since there were kids killing civilian.
2.Children were feared because there were rumors young boys were being forced by rebels to kill their families.
3.They avoided trouble by walking through the bushes so they wouldn’t be seen.
4.The consequence of the war was that nobody trusted each other anymore.
5.One of the boys saved the main character and his friends from being drowned. The boy was a classmate of his and said the boys were not spies.
6.The chief thought the boys were spies and he found some rap tapes. He questioned the main character about it why he had those tapes. The old classmate of his saved him by saying he wasn’t a spy and letting them go and offering them to stay at the village.
7.The main character and his friends escaped death because as they were walking a group of men with machetes ordered the boys to go with them. They were the securitys of the village. They tied them up and demanded to know if they were spies. What saved them is the rap tapes that ishmael (main character) had in his pocket. Ishmael told the chief he was from Mattru Jong and he would perform at talent shows. The chief called a boy who was from Mattru Jong and the boy recognized Ishamael and they untied Ishmael and his friends. Ishamael’s relationship with Jr is not the same. They both don’t really talk. Ishamael wants to know what Jr is thinking but he doesn’t know how to approach him.
8.Ishmael is remembering the times his brother would talk to him and ask him what was wrong. Now they are both so shocked and sad about the stuff they both have seen no one has talked to each other and ishmael wants to ask his brother if he is doing ok. The problem is that Ishamael doesn’t know when to break the silence.
9.The season is fall. The leaves from trees have fallen to the ground and changed color to brown.
10.They pour wine in the soil to thank the ancestors and the gods for providing fertile soil, healthy rice, and a successful farming year.
11.They had sat on a hill everyday most of the day and saw no sign of the rebels, but ishamael and his friends still no that the rebels were going to arrive.
12.They would clear a massive plot of land, everyday they would swing machetes at the trees and palms to cut them down.
13.He would get in a lot of fights or stone kids he couldn’t beat up, and since he didn’t have a mother at home ishamael and Jr were misfits of the community.
14.Well right now I kind of do consider myself a misfit because my mom and I have a really bad relationship and I live with my dad.
15.He would get in a lot of fights at school because he was very troublesome.
16.The significance of the end of this chapter is that after all the hard work they do to try and make their community back to normal to the rebels came and attacked AGAIN. Also Ishamael also is sad at the fact that he didn’t talk to his brother that day and that was the last time he saw him.
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
Voluntary : done, made, brought about, undertaken, etc., of one's own accord or by free choice
Parables : a short allegorical story designed to illustrate or teach some truth, religious principle, or moral lesson
Blistered : a thin vesicle on the skin, containing watery matter or serum, as from a burn or other injury
Midday : the middle of the day; noon or the time centering around noon
Engulfed : to swallow up in or as in a gulf; submerge
Scouting : a soldier, warship, airplane, etc., employed in reconnoitering
Fertile : bearing, producing, or capable of producing vegetation, crops, etc., abundantly; prolific
Pitied : sympathetic or kindly sorrow evoked by the suffering, distress, or misfortune of another, often leading one to give relief or aid or to show mercy
Occasional : sympathetic or kindly sorrow evoked by the suffering, distress, or misfortune of another, often leading one to give relief or aid or to show mercy
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