A Long Way Gone Ch. 6 Questions

Chapter 6
Questions

1. What are some advantages and disadvantages of being in a group of 6 boys? The advantage is that the 6 boys had to stay together so they can get over their everyday obstacles that go through everyday. The disadvantages is that villagers/ people were afraid of people their age due to the war. Especially that rumor that was going on when boys their age were forced to kill their own family. The only way they can avoid chaos from people was to hide and walk through bushes.
   
2. Why were children feared? People feared children, because they were mostly recruited by the rebels. Children were also used to kill people.
   
3. How did they avoid confrontation with people in villages? In order for them to avoid confrontation with people in villages was by walking through nearby bushes.
   
4. What was the consequence of the war? People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even people who knew each other were careful of how related or how they spoke to you.
   
5. Who saved the boys from being drowned? The young boy from Mattru Jong saved them from the war.
   
6. What happened with the chief? The chief asked to play the tape cassette he found, and asked what kind of foreign music. The boys go on and on about the music and ended up talking about Mattru Jong. The chief then asked for a young man to explain to him about Mattru Jong
7. In this chapter he escaped death again, how? Describe his relationship with JR.? Ishmael escaped death when they were caught by this muscular men which brought them to their village. They were about to get thrown into the river not until the chief came along. You could say that Ishmael and Junior was kinda close. Junior taught Ishmael how to make rocks skip on water. He cared when Ishmael got hurt and he examined his wounds.
   
8. Explain the internal conflict going on that involves his brother Jr. His brother Junior couldn't make eye contact with him, but he still continued to spend time with him. Ishmael's brother was close to him that he asked if he was alright from falling and he examined his legs.
   
9. What season is it? Describe the setting? It was the season for planting. The first rain had falling, making the soil soft. Birds began building their nests in mango trees. Dew came every morning, leaving leaves wet, and the air moist.
   
10. Why pour wine in soil? Pouring wine in soil was a ceremony that they do to thank ancestors and the gods for providing fertile soil, healthy rice, and a successful farming year.
    
11. What did he see as a fore shadow (hint of what will happen)? Ishmael knew that tough days were coming ahead of him as he came to look at the bush that was supposed to be cut.
    
12. Describe the backbreaking work of clearing the bush? Ishmael and his friends had to chop down the thick bushes with heavy machetes and axe. They would go flying backwards every time they bring the axe up to chop down the thick bushes.
    
13. What made him and his brother misfits of their community? What did they often do? Ishmael and his brother was a misfits of their own community, because they didn't have a mother at home. They would always get into fights with the other kids in their village.
    
14. Can you relate growing up as a misfit? How? I can relate growing up as a misfit. Without parents there to discipline you, you would probably grow up bad, since no one was there to teach you whats right from wrong and the other way around.
    
15. Why did Ishmael get into a lot of fights in school? Ishmael gets into fights a lot, because kids at their school would pity, make fun of, and give them that look that said their mother's talk about them a lot.
    
16. What is the significance of the ending of this chapter? The rebels came to Kamator where they spend days and days doing labor work. The attack at Kamator was the time, when him and his friends got separated.