1:A Long Way Gone

1st Quote by Gibrilla "Gibrilla explained that the teachers had told them that the rebels had attacked Mogbwembo, our home. School had been canceled until further notice. We stopped what we were doing." page 9

Significance: This quote relates to the question number 1 because it kind of talks about why some of the multiple characters had left their home village to go to America. It also shows how harsh it was trying to leave their home and how it felt to be not there when their home had been ambushed by rebels. It also shows how serious on what happens to 1 village and what would happen to other villages.

Character Judgment: When the main character heard what had happened to his village, family, and friends he felt sad, but he didn't cry all that happened is his fear of the rebels coming to the next village for him all that happened to him was that his knees and legs started trembling.

Question: What do you think happened to Ishmael and Junior's parents?

2nd Quote by Ishmael "A shudder racked my body, and i tried to think about my new life in New York City, where i had been for over a month. But my mind wandered across the Atlantic Ocean back to Sierra Leone. I saw myself holding and AK-47 and walking through a coffee farm with a squad that consisted of many boys and few adults. page 19

Significance: This quote relates to the question number 5 because its talking about a new life in America. It also connects to number 5 because the hardships that the character is enduring is always remembering the pass and what he has done and never forgiving himself for what he has done in the past. The character is always shuddering as he thinks of himself crossing the ocean back to Sierra Leone.

Character Judgment: What the character is doing is thing about his past judgment. He's shuddering as he thinks of himself holding a AK-47. My feelings toward the character is that I feel bad for him because he can;t even stop thinking about the horrible things he's done.

Question: In this chapter the author went from writing about him in Sierra Leone to NYC to Sierra Leone again. Why does he do that?