A Long Way Gone Ch. 20 Questions

A Long Way Gone Ch. 20 Questions.

1. What was his vision of NYC? Where did he get his idea of NY? Ishmael envisioned New York City as a place where people shot each other on the street and got away with it. No one walked on the streets, but drove in their sports car looking for nightclubs and violence. He got these ideas from rap music.
2. Tell me what you think NYC is like. Why? NYC is a busy city where no one sleeps, because everywhere you look no matter what time of day it is you would see a lot of people walking around and crossings streets.
3. How come he had no idea what winter was? Where did he learn about winter from? Ishmael didn't know what winter was, but he learned about winter from the Shakespeare's texts that hes been reading.
4. Describe how he felt when he first felt NYC weather. Ishmael had never been so cold in his life. They were all greeted by an extremely cold wind when they got out the terminal. He felt his skin tighten, he couldn't feel his face, and it seemed like his ears had falling off, his fingers hurt, and his teeth chattered.
5. Snow and cold, lots of cars were huge culture shocks for Ishmael because he never experienced it, tell me a tell where you experience culture shock! The time when I went to the Philippines. I'm not new to the weather there, but ever since I came here I had forgotten how the weather was over there. Its really hot over there. Its probably like over 90 degrees over there.
6. Where are they staying? Ishmael, Dr Tamba, and Bah stayed at the Vanderbilt YMCA hotel on Forty- seventh Street.
7. What other children are there as well? There were children from Lebanon, Cambodia, Kosovo, Brazil, Norway, Yemen, Mozambique, Palestine, Guatemala, the U.S (New York), South Africa, Peru, Northern Ireland, India, Papua New Guinea, Malawi, etc.
8. Why was he baffled by the food? Why do you thin it was hard for him to adjust. Ishmael had no idea what to get or what the names of the foods were that the cooks were making. Ishmael would order the same thing, or get what everyone is getting. I think it was hard for Ishmael to adjust, because he was so used to his own food that he had back home.
9. What did he learn about some of the other children there? Ishmael learned that some of the children risked their life just to attend the conference. Other had walked hundreds of miles to a neighboring countries just to get on a plane.
10. Who is Laura Simms? Describe her and her job. Laura Simms was a storyteller. She was a short white woman with long dark hair and bright eyes. In her workshop she would teach them how to tell their stories in a more compelling way.
11. Why didn’t he accept the winter jacket? Would you? Ishmael didn't accept the winter jacket, because it was a women's jacket. I would accept the jacket, because I'm a girl and for the fact that I'm freezing in the cold.
12. Him and Madoka visit the Times Square, what does he see? Tell me 3 things that he talks about. They saw buildings, people hurrying, lights all over the place, and shows playing on huge screens. One of the screens had people in their underwear, and others had music videos. The number of people, the glittering buildings, and the sound of cars overwhelmed Ishmael.
13. What was the conference about? How did he feel about the conference? The conference was about the lives of many children and their country. Ishmael felt good about the conference.
14. What is Ishmael speech about, what is your favorite sentence from his speech? Ishmael's speech was about his experience and his hopes that the war would end. My favorite sentence from his speech was "I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I'm going to take revenge, in the process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to and end."
15. Do you agree with his speech? Why? I agree with his speech, because like what he said revenge is not good at all. If you kill one person, then that person's family will seek revenge and would result in more killings. In that way revenge would never end.
16. Tell me one experience you have had that has changed your life and you are still working on or dealing with. My experiences are too personal to post up.
17. How is music, and dancing a huge part of his life? Music and dancing was a huge part of his life, because that was what he loved to do before the war began.
18. When did he leave NY? They left New York in November 15, 1996.
19. Where was he going now? Ishmael was going back to his country.
20. What do you will happen in the next chapter? I predict that Ishmael would go back to New York in the next chapter.
21. How will his life be different now in Sierra Leone? Ishmael was pleased to have met people outside of Sierra Leone. If he was to get killed upon his return, he knew that a memory of his existence was alive somewhere in the world.
22. Do you think that he will return to the group he was part of? I don't think Ishmael would return to the group he was part of.
23. Tell me time where you have experience growth from something negative. When I would lose people, the people I lost made me gain more people.