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"Roy Lee, Sherman, and O'Dell bowed their heads in impotent rage" (chap:4)

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"She shook her head. "You know what? I would beat you, but jesus has already exposed your lies.""(81)

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Its main street consisted of some tired old stores, a bank, a couple of gas stations, and a crumbling hotel. jr pg #25

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walking down the street.see an abandoned building,and griffiti on the wall.(page36)

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"He looked away, then at my stepmother, who pretended not to see me." pg (10)

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I'd read books, play with the toy I had, make up imaginary worlds. I lived inside my head. ( page 31 )

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"Most people weren't asleep; we could hear them whispering when the dogs took breaks or went to cry on opposite ends of the village." (Beah 87)

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"Children watch their shadows and play in its light, people gather at the square to tell stories and dance through the night"

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"We placed our hands on each other's shoulders and walked forward, dancing to sounds we made with our mouths." (Beah 73)

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"I was grateful to have Roy Lee, Sherman, and O'Dell as friends." (Hickam, Jr. 21)

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" Her closet was also full of matching shoes and bags that I'd only ever seen her wear into a church for Sunday service, a holiday concert,wedding, or a funeral."

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"He examined my face, and his lips were about to utter something, when my stepmother came out" (Beah 10)

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What i had was more buckwheat: unruly and impossible to comb, like stabbing a pitchfork into a bed of crabgrass (Beah 163)

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"He called her a piss-poor parent.He sneered at her.'Maybe thats why your kids don't even think you love them' " Pg87

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"My hair was pretty still. my eyes strung , and water lingered in the canals of my ears. My body was still stiff, and I was already exhausted from the unrelenting tension" (pg37)

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"It was I who rooted around in the bottom of the refrigerator, found the food, and attempted to slice it for him with a butter knife."

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South Africa is a mix of the old and the new, the ancient and the modern. (Noah 33)

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"Worst of all, the flesh on the palms of my hands was peeled, swollen, and blistered." (Beah 42)

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"She would pause, give me a piece of dry fish, and then continue: 'I want a grandchild. so don't be a palampo forever" (Beah 23)

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"I picked up some of the bananas and waited for Gasemu to gather his water jug, machete, and the last bunch" (Beah 92).

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" I had been reading everything I could get my hands on for months; also, we ran out of new books in our house" (Ford 51).