To Kill A Mockingbird: Post #3: Perspective of Atticus

Perspective of Atticus
Chapters: 8-9

I wake up this morning and all the sudden I see our windows frosted and our front yard to be covered with white snow. I must of have been dreaming because it hadn't have snowed in Maycomb, Alabama since 1885. I go to bed thinking it is a dream but all the sudden I hear my phone ring. It was Scout and Jem's school. I asked them what was going on and they said that they had school off because of a snow day. This was very rare and very unusual. Scout and Jem run up to me saying that its snowing outside. I tell them that school was canceled for the day and they were happy as I ever saw them. Of course they immediately run out side playing in the snow. For a couple of hours I see them trying to make a snow man. It didn't really snow much but they used all the snow they could. In about an 2 hours they had built a snow man. I come outside to look at it. I stare at it for a couple of minutes. It looked exactly ike Mr. Avery. Mr. Avery was not the nicest guy in our neighbor. I say to Jem and Scout that we have to disguise it because it looked like an exact replica or clone to Mr. Avery. Jem tries to fetch some things to make it look nothing a like to Mr. Avery. For a few minutes they get all the snowman new clothes and try to perfect it. The clothes looked very acquainted Making sure that nothing is cricked and nothing can blow away. It was probably one of the most windiest days that I have ever experienced in Maycomb, Alabama. Soon it was time for dinner.

That night I wake up Scout helping her put on her coat and bathrobe. I also woke a Jem to put on some warm clothes. They had no idea what the heck was going on. I take both of them and walk to the door. As I walk to the door it gets smokier and smokier. When we open the door Scout and Jem relize that Miss. Maudie's house has been caught on fire. The fire was massive. I saw all the neighbors running in and out of her house trying to save all of her furniture. I try to join and help her because I noticed that Miss. Maudie has been very kind to Scout and Jem. I run into her house and I notice a rocking chair in the corner of the house. It seemed special and it she might have been fanatical with this rocking chair because the rocking chair looked very old and precious to her. I took the rocking chair and head out the door. Several minutes later the fire truck comes in but it was almost to late. Her house was almost completely burned. All the sudden I see Boo Radely come up right behind my daughter, Scout. He has a blanket in his hand and he puts it around Scout. She looks like she didn't even notice that the blanket was put on her. After a few minutes I ask her where she got the blanket so she would notice it. She had no idea where she had gotten it and seemed to perplex. Jem tells her that Boo Radely put it around you. She had the most shocked face ever. Boo Radely comes up to me and explains all the stories about knot-hole and all the hidden gift that were in it. He also explained why the knot - holes were covered in cement. I tell Scout and Jem about the stories and why the put cement in the knot- hole. When I was telling them Scout just randomly threw up and told me that she couldn't believe that Boo Radely put the blanket around me.

The next morning Miss. Maudie was happy as ever. Even when her house got burned down. She was smiling and told us that she always wanted a bigger backyard and she hated the house anyways. I would consider one of my favorite neighbors.

Today is a big day for me. It was the day that I had to go to court. My job was to defend a black man being accused of raping a white woman. I thought that I had no chance of winning this argument but I had to try. I just hope that I do a good job debating. I had to entrusted with Tom Robinson case. Plus on top of that my brother Jack was coming into town for Christmas. When Scout and Jem came home from school they were suprised that their Uncle Jack was in town. Usually Scout was pretty calm and nice to Uncle Jack but I guess not. Scout just cussed Uncle Jack out. A couple days later Christmas had come. For Christmas I thought it would be a good idea to take Jem, Scout and my brother Jack to Finch's Landing. It was where my sister, Alexandra lives at and her husband. I tell Scout to play with their little boy Francis but she seemed kind of scared to approach him. I started talking to my sister, Alexandra. I look at Scout and they seemed to having the worse time with each other. Scout seemed so bored.I started to talking to my sister and her husband for a while. I hear my brother come up and yell Scout and heard a huge smack. It then clicked in my mind that she had been spanked. We arrive at home and I am just worried about my court case. I have a discussion with my brother Jack. I say to him that the black person, Tom Robinson is innocent but doomed.

Journal #2: Perspective of Jem Finch: Chapters 4-7

Chapters 4-7:
Perspective of Jem Finch

I was in school and like Scout I thought the days were endless and completely boring. They were long and tiring. Our teacher was about to start on a new lesson but luckily school time was over. It was time for me to go home. As I walked down the streets I get to the Radely House. Taking one big breath just in case something surprisingly happens to me. I try to evasion the Radely House so I don't get so scared and keep calm. As I walked completely pass the Radely House I started to walk a little faster to my house which was only a few steps away. As I got home I started to work on my homework that my mean and boring teacher had given me. A couple minutes later Scout had come home. As I looked at her I see her chewing something in her mouth. She tells me when she was walking by the Radely House she saw a tinfoil sticking out one of the oak trees in the Radely's front yard. She had grabbed them and she found 2 pieces of gum. I asked her if she was chewing the 2 pieces of gum in her mouth right now and she replied yes. I get my angry voice turned on and told her to spit the gum out immediately and she is trying to stop me saying that she made sure that it wasn't poisonous.We started to quibble. I told her that it still could be and to make sure I yelled at Scout to take the gum out of her mouth. My tyranny that I had put on Scout was so shocking to her that she immediately put it in the trash.

A few weeks later summer had begun and Dill had come back to Maycomb, Alabama. For most of the days we played games and just had fun. One of the games we played was with a tire. We would role the tire to each other. When it was Scout's turned she roled it as hard as she could to Dill but it was completely off from him. It ended up landing on the Radely House's steps. At this point everyone was completely shocked. This gave me an idea of another game but it involved messing with Boo Radely. We play for a couple of hours until my dad, Atticus shows up. He asks us if any of our games had to deal with the Radely's. I try not to tell the truth so I lie and say that none of our games are dealing with the Radely's.

As I play more games with Dill we start to become really good friends with each other. I hang out with Dill more then I hung out with Scout. I always thought that Dill was always more fun then Scout. We play games together, build things together and have fun together. We never usually played with Scout anymore because she would be always hanging out with Miss. Maudie. I was having a blast with Dill. After playing with Dill several hours I decided to make the games a little more exciting. What I was thinking was writing a letter to Boo Radely asking if he can come out of his house. Dill and write a letter and were about to put it under his door, but my dad Atticus shows up again and yells at us saying that he doesn't want us tormenting the Radely's anymore.

It was sad to say that it was Dill's last day in Maycomb, Alabama. For his last day I didn't obeyed my fathers orders and asked Dill if he wanted to mess with the Radely's. Of course he said yes but when I told him Scout over heard and of course she wants to join as well. I said that she could but she couldn't tell anyone. She said "yes". We all hop the gated fence to his backyard and see an old loose shutter. We go to the shutter and I teetered going up the steps to the shutter. Dill, I and Scout look through the creeky, old, loose shutter and see a man. A man with a hat on. We have just been looking at him for 5 minutes straight because we barely see Boo Radely. All the sudden we hear this loud noise. It was so loud that it almost made my ears bleed. We hop the fence. When it was my turn to hop the fence my pants got stuck. I tried so hard to get them off but I had no choice but to leave them there. As I run to my house to fetch some pants I see everyone in a circle around Mr. Nathan Radely. He was holding a black shiny sniper gun. Hopefully I can get all the info of what just happened from Scout.

Summer was finally over. I was a grade higher and Scout was in the second grade. Scout and I thought it was worse then last year. It was even more boring. After school one day I was going to get my pants that I had left when I had hopped the fence. When I got to the Radely House I saw my pants neatly folded on the side of the fence. I thought it was completely weird. Why would he want to come out of his house. Did he know that I tried to look through his house. I was completely freaked out. I went to tell Scout about it and she was wondering if he knew that we had snuck in his backyard and looked through his shutters. When we were passing the Radely house we see something knot hole in the oak tree. We saw a hidden present but we didn't take it just in case it was someones. After a couple of days no one had claimed it me and Scout decided to take it. A few weeks later we see another present in the knot hole. We pick up the present and they were two soap figures. They were carved in the shape of humans. We were looking at them and we noticed that they had the same traits of us. Scout figured out that the soap carvings were us. We were wondering who carved them and we were thinking Mr. Avery. In late fall we came back to the Radely House to the same oak tree and we found it covered with cement. I asked. Mr. Nathan Radely why is was covered in cement and he said that oak trees were dying.

Journal #1: Perspective of Walter Cunningham: Chapters 1-3

Chapters 1-3:
Perspective of Walter Cunningham.

I was working on our farm in Maycomb, Alabama going barefoot through barns and hog wallows taking and cleaning after our animals. Almost everyday working on our farm I was thinking about school and how it was coming up so fast. I didn't want to go to school what so ever and was the last thing on my mind. Going to school is going to be a bit eccentric then my daily schedule just working on my farm.

3 days later school had began worrying about my hookworms that I have gotten from walking through our filthy barns. Hopefully no one will notice even though I thought it looked pretty bad. I arrive at school and I see all the boys and girls in my class with some of them with their lunches beside their desk. I see my teacher Miss. Caroline with her red and white striped dress and high heeled shoes. Miss. Caroline soon begins to teach by starting to write her name on the board and introducing herself to the class. She starts to read a book about cats and I am not liking it one bit. Just sitting at a table was so boring for me. Not doing anything. No talking, no getting up out of your seat. Just writing and listening to her talk. Ms. Caroline was starting to irk me because she was making class so boring. I couldn't handle it. After she was done reading the book she started talking about the alphabet. I was getting really bored and was starting to get a headache. She asked us if anyone knew what these letters were. A tom boy in my class raised her hand and read the alphabet out loud. Ms. Caroline started to get a little frustrated at her and told her to make sure her dad didn't teach her anymore because she knew the alphabet pretty well. Miss. Caroline was pretty malevolent to Scout.It started to get a little more exciting in class I thought because they started arguing for about 5 minutes straight. Almost everyday Ms. Caroline caught her doing something bad. Either writing a letter to someone instead of printing or butting in other peoples conversations like she did to me. One day Ms. Caroline came up to me and asked me if I had a lunch. I turned around and I was nervous that people were going to notice that I had hookworms. I replied, "No Miss. Caroline I don't have a lunch." She was considerate enough to open her purse and give me a quarter, but I refused because I had no way of paying her back. My family got hit pretty hard by the Great Depression. We can barely pay off anything right now. Miss. Caroline asked me why I didn't take it and then the tom boy, Scout blurted out that I was poor and that I don't take anything that I cant pay back. Miss. Caroline got mad at Scout and punished her by whipping her with her ruler.

The next day around lunch time I was walking in the school yard. All the sudden Scout comes up behind me and takes me down wondering why the heck she is beating me up. She started to intimidate me and started rubbing my nose into dirt. It was very unpleasant but I was use to the smell. I smell dirt 24/7 when I was working on the farm. I was pretty indigenous to dirt. Her brother Jem stopped the fight and asked her why she did that to me. Scout replied that, that is what he deserves for getting me in trouble. Jem started going on that Scout was older then me and a lot taller then me. At around dinner time we went to the Finch house for my dad to discuss about farming issues. While having dinner I start to put syrup all over my food. When my food was covered Scout yells at me saying that was so gross. An African - American lady called Scout's name into the kitchen. Probably for yelling at me when I am just a guess.

The next day after having dinner at the Finch house I had to go back to school. School was such a pain I thought it was terrible and boring. A couple minutes into class Miss. Caroline starts to freak out randomly. Class was starting to get exciting again. Miss. Caroline says that there was a bug in this boy's hair. The boy was named Burris Ewell. I have noticed that he doesn't come to school a lot and that he is poorer then my family. Anyways Burris digged through his hair trying to find the bug in his hair. He takes the bug out of his hair and smashes it with his index finger and thumb right in front of Miss. Caroline. I thought it was pretty gross. Burris Ewell was not the nicest kid in my school. He was pretty mean half the time. Miss. Caroline began to teach again and started to bore the class and it felt like another day at school again.

Project Reflection

Immigration Project Reflection
By: Trent Smith

Literature Circle Books/ Blogs:
The book that I chose is A Long Way Gone by Ishamel Beah. My experiences of this book were surprising and shocking. I was surprised on how much killing and violence Ishamel Beah saw in this book. Not only did he had to see his family disappear and be taken away he also had to feel the pain of others suffering and also see the tragedies that others have lost. I thought this book was very shocking because the rebels did many bad and scary things to innocent people. They shot people for no apparent reason and they would laugh at them when they were either suffering from death or being tortured by them. It was like a second Holocaust that Ishamel Beah went through. I am glad that I picked this book. This book was not boring at all. It was very descriptive and detailed and this book really got the emotions out of you. He explained everyones feelings so well and so descriptive.
What I learned in this book, A Long Way Gone was about war. Sometimes you have to take risks to survive that you wont normally do in ordinary life. There was not many options that you really had if your stuck in war. You are strictly in or going to be in survival mode.
I would not want to change anything in this project. This project was pretty well done and is a good amount of work to do for an 8th grader. I wouldn’t want to add anything else. I thought it was great idea that we got to make a painting about our work because it was a great way to learn more about our work.
I actually liked the blogging part about the lit circle projects. It makes people make sure that they are doing all of their work and to make sure that your group is seeing your blog by commenting. I thought that blogging was great, it was easy and you got to read what people wrote, instead of people just reading it to you. I think that responding was a good idea because as I said before it makes sure that people are looking and reading your blog posts. It also shows other peoples agreements or disagreements when they comment on the quote and question you put on your blog. It is also a great way to read about what other people had to say.
I had no problem with blogging. It was an easy way for doing lit circles and was less stressful. We had tons of time at home to do our literature circle meeting posts and responses. A problem that I had was commenting though. Sometimes I commented and I clicked “comment” button, but when I commented it took a long time to refresh the page to show my comment and it said,“page error.” Then I tried pressing the “back” button and all my work was erased and I had to comment again. This happened a couple of times to me. I thought that my group members did a great job on commenting and also posting their lit circles. They gave me good feed back and answered the my questions with detailed information. They did fantastic.

Art & Literature:
I chose to make a book cover because I thought that would be the most fun and easiest thing for me to make. I thought that I could make a book cover because I thought the front cover makes people not only want to read the book, but it also has a story behind it and to find out why the book cover is like that you have to read the book. The original painting I wanted to do was a cultural component about the war, Africa and the situations he was in. I decided not to do this because I thought the viewer or the person that was looking at my painting would not get it at all. I thought it would be a little random to put different things that are not all related to one thing. I was also going to a famous painting. The famous painting that I chose was “The Scream.” I decided not to do that because many people did that painting already. Plus someone in my group was doing the same famous painting as me. So I was left with the book cover and I am very glad that I stuck with that choice.
I feel that there was a connection that was easily made between the art piece that I created and the book that I read. In the book it mainly talked about a kid going to war and the hardships and challenges he had to go through. This related to my painting because I painted a young boy in black holding a rifle gun. In the background I used camouflage warfare background, telling the reader or viewer that the little boy was in a war. So I thought that I made a really well resemblance to my book. My main goal was to try to make the reader understand that this book is about a little boy going to war and to make the reader say that the book cover basically tells the story and the book cover relates to the book a lot. I also wanted the reader to read the book to find out who really is the painted person in black.
I am absolutely surprised the way my painting turned out. It was amazing. I didn’t think that it was going to turn out this well because I would always mess up on tracing my sketch on the canvas board. I also had second guesses because at first I had no idea on how to make a book over. I am very glad that I stook with this idea and I am very proud of my art piece. I have been hearing many compliments from teachers and students too.
Something that would enhance my art piece is probably going back and putting multiple layers of paint on my canvas board.. My painting had some white spots, which I sadly forgot to paint over. Luckily there was not many spots on my canvas board that I had to fix. I would also want to put the “Gone” of my book title on the right side instead of the left side. Some people got confused because the “Gone” part was on the left side. I thought it looked good like that, but others got confused. I wouldn’t want to enhance or fix anything else. This part of the project is really fun. I thought that my painting turned out neat, organized and wonderful, I am very proud of my art piece.
I did not really learn much from my LC novel with art. I mostly learned about war and how cruel and harsh they were to others. They killed many innocent people. Maybe one thing that I learned was trying to make the book cover relate to the book. You want to make sure that the book cover related to the book because when someone reads it, and looks at the cover, the person that is reading it is going to be confused and thrown off. But I did not really learn much on my literature circle book with art.

Interview Process with Participant & Gift:
I thought that the interview process was kind of difficult. I had to ask questions that were really straight forward because my immigrant did not know how to speak English well. He did not answer most of my question because they weren’t really straight forward questions that he could answer. But he did a great job answering his questions in English. This also made it difficult for write questions because they had to be straight forward and also made it hard for me to write down the answers to question because he had a very heavy accent.
I went to the IRC so I didn’t have to interview him in 3 different ways, but I had to have a inperson interview twice. The first time I went to the IRC they were very friendly and treated me with tons of respect. I was very excited to meet my immigrant. When I started asking my immigrant some questions he was confused with several of them. He probably only answered 10 of my 25 questions I gave him. So it was kind of hard communicating. When he did answer my questions he had a very thick accent and a very soft voice, so it was hard to hear him. The second time I interviewed him, it was a lot better. He learned a lot of English and he translated better to me. I also made ure that most of my questions were very straight forward. It turned out to be difficult in the beginning but more smoother in the end.
Something that I learned that was unique about him was the clothes that he was wearing on the first day I met him. It looked like he was wearing a homemade shirt with a cultural looking vest over it. It looked very interesting and unique. Our clothes in America look so much different in Burma and Thailand. Something that we had in common is that he had 1 brother and 2 sisters, just like me. We both had a family a 6 and the same amount of brothers and sisters. A fact that I thought was interesting was they had no education in Burma/ Thailand. Most of the time they had to work. He worked on a farm. He worked with many animals like goats, pigs, horses, cows and chickens.
Learning about an immigrant that we interviewed and the things we learned in class really understood the life of an immigrant. They have to leave many of their cultures and traditions behind. They also have to remember many things like how to speak English, which is the hardest language to speak. Interviewing an immigrant really taught me the life of immigrant and the challenges they have to overcome. It isn’t easy as it looks.
I thought that making a gift was a nice and respectful idea to do for them because they took their time to help us on our project. My experience on making a gift for my immigrant was a fun thing to do. I made a scrap book for my immigrant because he talked a lot about himself. If you are making a scrap book you have to really go deep in your answers and pull out facts about his or her experiences come to America. Making a scrap book is difficult if you don’t plan out what is going to be on every sigle page of the scrap book. When I did my scrap book it was simply and quite fun to do. I already planned out what is going to be on every single page. I thought this was a fun experience because this is probably my first scrap book that I have completely finished and filled every single page of my scrap book with facts and pictures about him.

A Long Way Gone: Post #6

Quote #1: "I feel as if there is nothing left for me to live for." I said slowly. "I have no family it is just me. No one will be able to tell stories about my childhood." I sniffled a bit."
- Paragraph 1
- Page 167
- Said by Ishamel Beah

Response: I think that this quote relates to the question, "what hardships do the characters endure as they make a new life?" I think the quote relates to that question because he does not have any family that he has right now. He has no one to look up to and no one for him to take care of. He is a very lonely boy and is probably very confused. He lost everything to his family and his friends to his home. Now he is thinking that life is over for him and he can't do anything in the life he is in. I think this is really sad because I would be shedding tears if I knew that my family was gone and my friends. But at least Ishamel has Esther.

Personal Connection: Character Judgment: Ishamel is a very nice boy who wishes that none of this war would happen. He has lost almost everything. To his home, and his family all the way to the lost of friends. He is probably very confused on why they chose him to be in the war and to lose all of his family and other things that were dear to his heart.

Question: Do you think he is ever going to see his family again? Why & Explain.

Quote #2: "He scratched his head and mumbled something to himself. "I am sorry about bringing up this matter again. I know it will upset you, but I have to be honest with you," Leslie said. He walked around the room and began:"We cannot locate any immediate family member of yours, so we have to find you a foster family here in the city. I hope that will be fine with you. I check on you after you've completed your rehabilitation to see how you are doing in your new life."
- Page 170
- Paragraph 7
- Said by: Leslie

Response: I think this quote relates to the question, what hardships do the characters endure as they make a new life?" I think it relates to this question because I think this is a big hardship that he has in his life. He basically has no family anymore. They cannot find one person. Now he has to be sent to a foster home which I think is more sad because he will never forget the old family he had. He is probably very mad because it is all the wars fault. The war is messing Ishamel's childhood up.

Personal Connection: Character Judgment: Ishamel is having a very hard time taking everything in. He now heard that he has to be sent to a foster family because they cannot find anyone in his family that is around. He lost almost everything he had and he really wants to just give up on life at this point. He is a very brave boy and hopes that his bravery will give him the best for him. He is willing to anything for his family back.

Question: If you heard what Leslie said, how would you react? How would you feel? Do you think it would be hard to believe that all of your family is missing?

A Long Way Gone: Post #5

Quote: "She threw a package at me. I held it in my hand, wondering what it was and why she had gotten it for me. She was looking at me, waiting for me to open it. When I unwrapped it, I jumped up and hugged her, but immediately held back my happiness. I sternly asked, "Why did you get me this Walkman and cassette if we are not friends?" "And how did you know I like rap music?"
- Page 154
- Paragraph 3
- Said by Ishamel Beah

Response: I picked this quote because I thought that this quote kind of related to the question, "How do Americans treat the characters?" I think this question related to the quote because I think because he got taken out of the war he feels a lot safer and happier. Plus they are being really nice to him by giving him cool toys and rap music that he probably lost in the war. He is also making more friends easily.

Personal Connection: Character Judgment: Ishamel is really happy and safe that he got to get out of this war. He does not show his happiness and kindness a lot to others and gives a mean attitude for no reasons sometimes. He gets kind of frustrated easily a little bit in the book so far.

Question: If you were in Ishamel's position and you got to get something by nurse Esther, what would you want and why?

Quote #2: "For than twenty-four hours we retreated and attacked, using the arms and ammunition from those we had killed.
- Page 156
- Paragraph 3
- Said by: Ishamel Beah

Response #2: I think that this quote relates to the question, "What challenges do the characters face upon their arrival?" I think this relates to that question because that is a challenge that he had to overcome. He was being surrounded by rebels and they already killed 5 of their men. They were in trees and bushes and even right in from of them trying to aim fire at Ishamel and his troops. I think that was a big challenge that he had to over come at an age like this.
(He is explaining what happened to him in the war to the nurse if you did not get what I was on.)

Personal Connection: Character Judgment: Ishamel is a very nice person. Right now he is summarizing in great details what he went through with his nurse. He explains his journeys with great details like it was yesterday. Ishamel always likes to see the good things in others and likes to see people having a good time and smiling. He loves to have friends and bonds well with others pretty easily. He is a great friend to have and watches peoples backs. He also does not want his friends feeling bad so he tries to make the best for everyone.

Question: If you were in Ishamel's position and you had to explain what you went through in the war with his nurse, would you try to make it sound good or make it sound horrible. Because Ishamel tried making it sound good because he did not want seeing his nurse cry. So what would you do and explain why?

A Long Way Gone: Post #4

Quote #1: "We stayed in a big unfinished cement-brick house a long with other boys. A large green tarp served as its roof, and we slept on the cement floor on tiny blankets that two people shared."
- Page 101
-Paragraph 3
- Said by Ishamel Beah

Response: This quote relates to the question, "what hardships do the characters endure as they make a new life?" It relates to this question because he got captured by the rebels. Now he has to serve them by killing their own. He has to do whatever they tell them to do unless he wants the risk to be killed. He has to sleep in a small, unfinished cement brick house while sleeping on the cement floor. He barely had warmth and shelter. Next to them is where the rebels stayed at. They stayed in a bigger cement brick house but it was a little unfinished and broken. But it was better then the one that Ishamel had. If Ishamel ever wanted to escape it would be really hard because the rebels are watching their every move.

Personal Connection: Character Judgment: Ishamel is doing not so well. He is only a kid and he has to deal with harsh punishments that he does not even know what he did wrong. Ishamel Beah is a very nice kid and he always like to see his parents happy. As much he wants to interrupt them he doesn't because he loves it when his dad and mom smile at each other and at him.

Question: If you were stuck in this position how would you feel and what would you do?

Quote #2: "I wanted to hold the moment longer, but not only to celebrate our victory, but because the smile on my parents faces that evening made me so happy that I felt every nerve in my body had awoken and swayed to the gentlest winds that sailed within me.
- Page 102
- Paragraph 2
- Said By: Ishamel Beah

Significance: This related to the question "what challenges do the characters face upon their arrival?" I think the quote related to this question because Ishamel does not have both parents aside him everyday. Seeing them right now made him probably feel good inside and if I was in his position I would feel the same way. It is a challenge that he has to face upon because he never really see's his parents everyday because of the war and because they are divorced he does not have both of him aside him everyday.

Personal Connection: Character Judgment: Ishamel is a very nice kid and wishes to have his parents back together. It seems to me that he can't really stand his parents not together because he always wished that they were always together. Other then his parents he is struggling with the war. He really wants out. He can't stand taking a gun and killing his own kind because the rebels told him to. Also struggling for food and shelter. Everyday is a risk for his life.

Question: How would you feel if you couldn't see your parents everyday? Right now Ishamel is in this position and he does not really see his parents everyday.