Chapter 21 Questions
1. What gives him a tingling sensation in his belly? Ishmael would get a tingling feeling in his stomache as he remembered walking on a moving sidewalk in the Amsterdam airport.
2. What has he never seen so many of? Ishmael had never seen so many white people.
3. Describe his school back home. How is it different to SBTA? Ishmael's school had only a small building, which was made of mud bricks and a tin roof. There were no doors, no cement on the floor inside, and it was too small to hold all the students. His school is way different from SBTA, because our classroom is pretty big, big enough to hold alot of students. We dont have dirt floors, but carpet. Not only that but we have modernized technology such as computers.
4. What did the kids help their teacher with? How much do teachers get paid in his country? The kids helped their teachers grow crops in their farms or gardens. It was the only way to help them out since they dont get paid much or its been years since they got paid.
5. How come no one sat close to him or Mohamed? No one sat close to Ishmael or Mohamed, because they were scared that they might snap any minute and kill someone.
6. Would you be nervous to be friends with them? Why or why not? I would definitely be nervous to be friends with them, because of their past, but I wouldnt doubt them, because past is past and everything wasnt their fault. People can change.
7. What day was it that the loud sound went off in his city? It was May 25, 1997 when the loud sound went off in his city.
8. What was the cause of the noise? Why? The cause of the noise was gunshots. The central prison had been opened and the prisoners set free. The new government gave the prisoners guns as they got out.
9. What did the newly freed prisoner do? The prisoners went to the lawyers and judges who sentenced them killing them and their families or burning their houses when they weren't present. Others had started looting shops.
10. What do you think about that? One word to describe the prisoners and the government. CRUEL. I don't know why the government freed the prisoners and worse than that handed them guns which made them dangerous to society.
11. How is there prison system different from US? Their prison compared to US is that we never free the prisoners unless their done with their time or they're innocent.
12. How would you free about living in Freetown when all this is happening? No matter where they are, no matter what city your in their would always be chaos.
13. How did the city turn in lawlessness? The city turned lawlessness when Johnny Paul Koroma was elected president.
14. Tell me what you think life would be like if we had no laws and people handled their own troubles? Would you want to live there? The number of murders would increase as well as other crimes such as drug trafficking, rape, kidnapping, etc. The city would be a complete mess since everyone is doing what they want to do without getting in trouble. I wouldnt want to live in a city where theres no law. Its going to be too dangerous.
15. What did rebels do to the banks? The rebels blew up the bank vaults and looting the money.
16. What did the secret market do? The secret market sold food items to civilians. They sold the items twice the price.
17. What did the rebels order over the megaphones? The rebels ordered for everyone to put their bags down of food, put their hands behind their head, and lie flat on the ground.
18. What were happening to the civilians, give me examples. One example was when one woman panicked when they were all ordered to lie flat on the floor. She refused to listen so she started running then she was shot in the head.
19. What happened to Mohamed? Mohamed started coughing from the tear gas until the veins on his throat were visible.
20. How long did the gun shots last? The gun shots ceased for more than five months, because gunshots became the new sound of the city.
21. What were people eating most of the days? People mostly ate soaked raw rice with sugar or plain gari with salt.
22. What happened to his uncle, what was going on with him? His uncle has gotten really sick to the point when he died.
23. What happened to some of his rehabilitated friends? Some of Ishmael's rehabilitated friends had rejoined the army.
24. Do you think you would end up joining the rebels again? Why? No, I wouldn't join the rebels again, because I was already rehabilitated on the right path to recovery.
25. What was the only way of getting out of Freetown without being killed? Paying the driver to walk across the rusty bridge two at a time, and walked all day to a junction where they waited for another bus that would arrive in the morning.was the only way of getting out of Freetown without being killed.
26. Where was their final destination? Their final destination was Kambia.
27. Why do you think the soldiers were so strict about searching them? I think the reason why the soldiers were so strict in searching them, because just in case they had any weapons on them.
28. Was there any room on the bus for him? There wasn't any more room in the bus for Ishmael so he just stood through the whole trip.
29. Did he make it out of Freetown? Yes Ishmael made it out of Freetown.
30. There have been many times were he has escaped death , why do you think that is so? I think just got lucky when he tried to escape death.
31. What can he offer to the other people who have never experienced war? Ishmael can only offer words of hope, and give them advice on what to do and what not to do.
32. Tell me the story of the talking monkey. What is the significance of the story? There was a hunter who was trying to kill a money. He spotted the monkey sitting on the branch of a low tree. As the hunter raised his gun to shoot the monkey, the monkey said, " if you shoot me your mother will die, and if you don't your father will die."
33. Tell me an important saying or story someone has once told you. "You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough"
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