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On page 131 He talks about how there were gunshots everywhere and his friend Dani gets shot, ¨Dani said her body burned and all she wanted to do was jump outside of herself, swing to somewhere else like we pretended to do on the monkey bars." Reading this page helps us to explore the experiences of others by showing us that some people grow up in a dangerous world and have to deal with violence even as kids or young people. It deepens our understanding because we get to live through them, and we are able to see the horrors that they experience.

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One thing that stood out to me in this novel, which answers the question, how does exploring the experiences of others deepen our understanding of the world? is where Dani shares her experience from the trauma she faced from the gunshots. Understanding her experience with the gunshots helps to deepen my understanding of the world because I understand how traumatizing hearing and experiencing gunshots could be, this helps me to understand the world because when I hear on the news of shootings I can understand how horrible this is if someone goes through a shooting.

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on this page Will explains the rules. this deepens my understanding of the whole wide world because some people live by different type of rules than other people across the world

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"The Way I Felt" The experience that Will goes through as such a young kid with his friend Dani is unreal. He talks about how he felt after Dani passed and that he's never experienced that emotion before. This helps our understanding of the world because you realize how rarely this happens in life.

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The poem on page 70 talks about how he has his gun strapped to his back, and it helps deepen the understanding of the world because it describes how it felt like he had all the power, "Seemed like time stood still" from having this weapon on him. It also makes the scene nerve racking because of him having to wait in the elevator that seemed very slow, and it shows the word Down in the shape of an arrow. It shows us that people feel empowered by one object, and yet feel nervous about it.

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"I felt like crying"

"which felt like
another person
trapped behind my face
tiny fist punching
the backs of my eyes
heat kicking
my throat at the spot
where the swallows
starts"

He is scared to show his emotions not only to himself but to others because he has not shown his emotions before. William does not want to break the "rules". Which are not to "no matter what". By showing his emotions he can understand his brother and learn how to cope from his death.

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"It was like the words came out and at the same time went in." Will expresses the state of shock he was in throughout this time period of the book. The death of his brother caused him to go through this grief and was forced to cope while in the elevator by being visited by old friends who are dead. When he was talking to these friends he was unable to comprehend what they were saying because he was too shocked for anything to process in his head. This reaction is very common when a traumatic experience happens to anyone and helps us understand what people are really going through when things like a death in their life happens.

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"So What You bout to do?" "I'm about to do what you would of done" JR is following the rules and is searching for answers for shawn's death. JR's anger and confusion is pushing him to make an impulsive decision and shoot Buck. Maybe he's got the wrong person?

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It talks about how the main character is having to carry a gun to protect himself. It makes me glad to be privileged and don't have to be in that situation.It also makes me think of the people who have to live like that.

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"In The Kitchen"
The narrator, William, quietly walks past his mom instead of waking her up and consoling her. "Trying not to wake her, and lie about where I was going. And break her heart even more." William knows that getting revenge is bad, and that it will hurt those around him, but he is so full of anger and sadness that it doesn't matter. Williams actions relate to how people might feel in real life. Someone could be so focused on their feelings of sadness and hate that they don't notice the people struggling with the same thing around them.

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"I Wanted to Unload"
The speaker wants to express his mother's deep sadness about losing her son. JR feels as though he wants to unleash all of his emotions --but doesn't.

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The poem on page 59, helps deepen the understanding of the world because someone like Will has never touched a gun and never will. Meaning, there are people like Will who respect others. Not all people are bad

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"Stay put, I whispered to him. Stay strong, I Whispered to me. Because crying is against The Rules." William is trying to hide his emotions about his brothers death. He is scared about sharing his emotions because he hasn't before. he also doesn't want to break the rules. - the author wants to have Will seem like a "normal" teen by not having him express his feeling even though he need to, to move on from what happened in a away.

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You can see Will is mad. He was mad about his brother dying. He wants to get revenge and he '(knows)' who did it. Then he is making a plan. From what he went through we can see what anger looks like. That shows us that what the world brings he come with emtions.

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I would follow Shawn
around the apartment
making the strangest
noise with my mouth.
Hard to explain the sound.
Burpy but not a burp.
Like burp mixed
with yawn mixed
with hum.
Something like that.
For twenty minutesstraight.
From bedroom
to kitchen
to living room
back to bedroom.
To punish me,
he would wait for me to finish,
to run out ofsteam,
to let it go,
to get tired
of being immature.
And then,
to my surprise,
he wouldn’tsay a word to me
for the rest
of the day

This shows that he had experiences as a kid that were negative because Shawn often got mad at him for following him around