https://padlet.com/bethanysmith/e6i4lwpxzq4z Each group will post their discussion points on the padlet. Please list your group number and all of your group members' names. Be sure to use your own notes to drive your group's discussion. Remember, you do NOT type all of your answers on here. You will note ven answer all of these questions/discussion points. Only post things that you wish to discuss full group. en-us 2017-04-10 11:57:00 UTC 2025-10-07 13:50:20 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Templeball.png bethanysmith https://padlet.com/bethanysmith/e6i4lwpxzq4z/wish/165644812 CHAPTER 11
   * Hope to find family--disappointment 
   * Rebels in town - how they were acting
   * Gasemu - So much to say about him

CHAPTER 12
   * Caught - good life in beginning? Why?
   * Change in town - pg. 103
   * Lt. Jabati - Shakespeare conversation - irony?
   * Choice - stay and fight or leave and be on own
   * Example of man & child who left and were killed by rebels? 
         * What really happened? Why?
   * Discuss the training and schedule
   * Motivation to kill - pg. 112

CHAPTER 13
   * Time to fight
   * Fear of shooting
   * Why Ishmael finally began shooting/fighting?
   * White capsules - drugged

CHAPTER 14
  * Celebrated death - what is happening to Ishmael?
  * Sense of belonging - pg. 124 - relate to real life
  * Competition - new nicknames/how and why?
  * Very graphic description pg. 125

CHAPTER 15
  * Gun - provider and protector - pg. 126
  * UNICEF - who are they? Why didn't it work?
  * Fight in cafeteria - what happened? What did it stop?
  * Second fight - why did it happen? Why couldn't they stop it? 
  * Mambu - discuss him!

CHAPTER 16
  * Withdrawals
  * Freetown trips
  * PTSD
  * Memory about rainy season in Sierra Leone - pg. 149

OVERALL 
 * Desensitized to everything
 * Brainwashed -  how far will someone go?
 * Choices? ]]> 2017-04-10 11:58:33 UTC https://padlet.com/bethanysmith/e6i4lwpxzq4z/wish/165644812 https://padlet.com/bethanysmith/e6i4lwpxzq4z/wish/165730615 *Anger took over after not seeing his family
*Feel as if the Military killed the innocent people that wanted to leave not the Rebels
*Military just as bad as rebels
*Drugs are taking over/ Withdrawals
*"Frozen Hearted"
*Gun was his provider and protector
*UNICEF workers said "It's not their fault" no matter what they did.]]> 2017-04-10 17:14:55 UTC https://padlet.com/bethanysmith/e6i4lwpxzq4z/wish/165730615 https://padlet.com/bethanysmith/e6i4lwpxzq4z/wish/165732200 *PTSD caused the child soldiers to go crazy 
*Military is brainwashing the boys, making them feel like their life is dedicated to killing
*Celebrating death is causing Ishmael to lose his innocence as a child
*Was it Gasemu's fault for the boys not seeing their families?

]]> 2017-04-10 17:20:31 UTC https://padlet.com/bethanysmith/e6i4lwpxzq4z/wish/165732200 865930 https://padlet.com/bethanysmith/e6i4lwpxzq4z/wish/165732248 •Drugs (brown brown, white capsules)
•Soldiers scared of children
•Where was the fight between the army and rebels at UNICEF?
• Kill or be killed

]]> 2017-04-10 17:20:45 UTC https://padlet.com/bethanysmith/e6i4lwpxzq4z/wish/165732248 https://padlet.com/bethanysmith/e6i4lwpxzq4z/wish/165734932 - Gasemu: Should he be to blame?
- Is it "their fault"?
- What are the white capsules? Pain killers?]]> 2017-04-10 17:32:10 UTC https://padlet.com/bethanysmith/e6i4lwpxzq4z/wish/165734932