#2 A Long Way Gone

Quote 1: by Ishmael "We did, and my father put his arm around us. The gathering clapped and a photographer took a few snapshots. I pressed my fingers on my eyelids to hold back my tears and wished that I could have my family together again." page 45.

SIgnificance: This quote relates to the question number 2, because its talking about how hard the journey was traveling through Sierra Leone during a war. Also it talks about how hard a journey it was traveling alone, and how hard it was too survive alone. Also talking about how hard it hurts someone getting separated from your only family member in SIerra Leone.

Character Judgement: The character is only 13 and he got separated from his brother. His actions are always crying and he keeps moving. My feelings towards him is that I feel bad for him because him and his brother got separated, but he wasn't alone he was with his friend, but his friend got scared and didn't want to come with him.

Question: How do you think Junior feels about being separated?

Quote 2: by Ishmael "I walked for two days straight without sleeping. I stopped only at streams to drink water. I felt as if somebody was after me. Often, my shadow would scare me and cause me to run for miles. Everything felt awkwardly brutal. Even the air seemed to want to attack me and break my neck." page 49

Significance: This quote relates to question number 2. it relates to it because its talking about the characters journey to get to America. It says that the character is so paranoid about being found, or being killed. He thinks that everything is after him even the wind.

Personal Connection: I can relate to this, but except not being killed. One time me and my friends were skating around my neighbor hood and we found a 3 stair, and we accidently broke somebody's jar on their lawn, and we got paranoid because the owner came out and started to chase us. We got to our friends house to hide and we were paranoid of getting caught by the police or something.

Question: Do you think there's at least one village that was spared in the war? why?