I chose this because Salva goes to the brush for safety from the rebels.

Tone: Mournful

Mood: Depressed

Quotes:’’A cold fist seemed to grip Salvas heart’’

Rationale: I chose the quote because it’s sad to readers since it seems like Marial died. I chose the chapter since Salva is with his uncle.

Chapter: Six

Tone: Excited

Mood: Happy and hopeful

Quotes: “Eh, Nephew!” he said in a cheerful voice. “We are together now, so I will look after you!”

Rationale: I chose this chapter because it is one of the first happy chapters in the book. It shows how joyful Salva is when he sees his uncle.

Chapter: Chapter One 

Tone: Serious

Mood: Anxious 

Quotes: “CRACK! The noise had come from outside. Was it a gunshot?"----“Gunfire! ‘Everyone, DOWN!’ the teacher shouted.”---“Others sat frozen, their eyes and mouths open wide. Salva covered his head with his hands and looked from side to side in panic.”

Rationale: I chose this chapter because it shows that the mood is very serious, but I feel anxious for the events that follow.

Chapter: 6

Tone: Serious

Mood: Sad

Quotes: " He should be somewhere nearby.... I don't remember if he slept near me-I was so tired-perhaps he has gone to find something to eat-"

Rationale: I chose this chapter because it is a very serious chapter but toward the end of the chapter it got really sad.

Chapter:  1

Tone: Boring at first then scary

Mood: I was calm at first but then I got scared and worried

Quotes: "Into the bush. Do you hear me? Not home. Don't run home. They will be going into the villages. Stay away from the villages-run into the busy."
Rationale: I choose Chapter 1 because this is the starting chapter. This is where the problem occurs

Chapter:6

Tone:Salva is happy to see his uncle then sad because he can’t find his family

Mood:you feel happy then sad

Quotes:’’Uncle’’ he cried out and ran into the man’s arms.

Rationale: Salva is happy

Chapter: chapter 4

Tone: bitter

Mood:crushed

Quotes:

Rationale:

Chapter: 3

Tone: Panic

Mood: I feel bad for Salva and m mad at the people who left him

Quotes: " I was at school. I ran away from the fighting. I do not know where my family is."

Rationale: I chose this quote because it is what the beginning of the story is about. 

Chapter: 6

Tone: Relief

Mood: Excitement 

Quotes: "we are together now,so I will look after you"

Rationale: I choose this  quote because he had no hope until one day his uncle came to help him and take care of him

Chapter: 6

Tone: Sad and serious

Mood: Tense and sorrowful

Quotes: “I am sorry Salva” “Your friend…” -Uncle 

Rationale: I picked this because I believe it is an important moment to Salva and it is sad.

Chapter:2

Tone:Suspenseful

Mood:Scared

Quotes:Where is my family?

Rationale: i picked this chapter because this is where all of the real action begins.

Chapter: 1

Tone: Suspenseful

Mood: Scary

Quotes:”Into the bush. DO you hear me? Not home. Don’t run home. They will be going into the villages. Stay away from the villages-run into the bush.”

Rationale: this is scary because you don't know if any of your family is dead.

Chapter:6

Tone:Sad and apologetic

Mood:Sad

Quotes:Uncle stroked Salva´s head as if he were a baby. ¨I am sorry,¨he said again.

Rationale:This had a lot of emotion in the way he tells him what happened to Marial.

Chapter:6

Tone:Sad

Mood:Scary

Quotes:Uncle stroked Salva's head as if he were a baby.´´I am sorry´´

Rationale:This was a very sad thing that happened to Marial.

Chapter: 6

Tone: Sad and tragic

Mood: Sad

Quotes: " I'm sorry Salva"

Rationale: This was a very tragic moment because Marial was taken away by a lion in the middle of the night.

Chapter: 5

Tone: Determined, Friendship

Mood: Happiness 

Quotes: “Marial was the same age as Salva. They were almost the same height. When they walked side be side, their strides were exactly the same length. And the next morning, they began walking together.”  

“ ‘It doesn’t matter. Don’t you know that if we keep walking east, we’ll go all the way around the world and come right back here to Sudan? That’s when we’ll find our families!”

Rationale: Salva and Marial are determined to find their parents, together.

Chapter: 4

Tone: Exciting

Mood: Overjoyed    

Quotes: “Buksa stopped abruptly in front of a large tree. “Yes!” he said. “Now go call the others.”” 

“He pointed up at the branches of the tree. “Beehive. A fine, large one.””

Rationale: I picked these quotes because I thought they seemed really happy to find a beehive, and that it was good for them to have something to eat. 

Chapter: 1

Tone: Suspenseful

Mood: Scared & Suspenseful

Quotes: “ Everyone, DOWN!”

Rationale: The quote is suspenseful because the reader is in suspense when they read that the gunfire rang out and chaos happened.

Chapter: 2

Tone: suspenseful

Mood: Fearful

Quotes: “ They had left him. Alone. “

Rationale: It caused a mystery as nobody knew why salva was left alone.

Chapter:  Chapter Six

Tone: Approachable, solemn

Mood: Sorrowful

Quotes: “I am sorry, Salva,”

Rationale: This quote is sad because it’s hinting that something has happened to Marial, Salva’s friend, that isn’t very good, based on the tone.

Chapter:5

Tone:funny and happy
Mood:Cheerful and fun

Quotes: He's a dinka to

Rationale:I choose this because it was fun to listen to

Chapter:1

Tone:scary

Mood:helpless

Quotes:I need to go home

Rationale:I chose this quote because this is where Salva decides if he goes home or stays with the group.

Chapter:3

Tone: It was sad then it turned into joyful and happy.

Mood: At first it was sad but then it turned happy

Quotes: “I was at school. I ran away from the fighting. I do not know where my family is”

Rationale: I chose this quote because this is where his journey starts.

Chapter: chapter 1

Tone: suspense and worry

Mood: Anxious and worried for his family

Quotes: ¨I need to go home! I must go home!¨ But the words were blocked by the wild thumping in his throat.

Rationale: I felt worried because I was scared that he would not find his family. Also because I would probably do that myself.

Chapter: four

Tone: Cheerful

Mood: Optimistic

Quotes: “Honey! This night, they would feast!

Rationale: I felt optimistic because Salva had found his strength again and was willing to keep on walking.

Chapter: 3

Tone: Encouraging

Mood: Determined

Quotes: He worked so hard so she would not send him away.

Rationale: I choose this because he worked hard and it can be encouraging in the writer’s mind and we would feel Determined because of the encouraging tone.

Chapter:5

Tone: For salvas side of the story it was a positive tone

Mood: When reading chapter 5 i felt a sense of victory for Salva. Like his life was finally going a little better despite his family.

Quotes:”it was good to make a friend”

“They were both laughing as they started walking again, arm in arm,their strides matching perfectly.”

Rationale: I think that chapter five was similar to the calm before the storm. All is still, and in a sense, perfect. But everything will change in chapter 6

Chapter: 2

Tone: Afraid and Sad

Mood: I felt sad and worried for him

Quotes: “Where are we going? Where is my family? When will I see them again?”

Rationale: I chose this quote because it shows how Salva was scared because he was alone and he didn’t know where he gas going. It also shows that he is sad because he doesn’t know if he will ever see his family again.

Chapter: 4

Tone: Neutral

Mood:Hope

Quotes: “This one is alone. Will you take him with you?”

Rationale: It makes me hope that he won’t be all alone anymore.

Chapter: two

Tone: sadness

Mood: anger, sadness

Quotes: “one man protested that he did not want to go with the rebels. A soldier hit him in the face with the butt of a gun. The man fell to the ground, bleeding. After that, no one objected.” pg 12 paragraphs 2/3

Rationale: This shows the rebel’s cruelty, even towards their own people.

Chapter:6

Tone: sad

Mood: sad

Quotes: ”someone was crying” “i am sorry salva” “your friend..”

Rationale: i picked this because he was salvas best friend and it plays an important part in the story.

Chapter: 6 

Tone: Tragic

Mood: sad

Quotes: “I am sorry, Salva,” Uncle said quietly.  “Your friend . . .”     A cold fist seemed to grip Salva’s heart.

Rationale: Salva’s friend is eaten by a lion and salva is sad.

Chapter: 6

Tone: Excitement, Seriousness

Mood: Happiness, Sadness

Quotes: “Uncle” 

Rationale: That’s when Salva saw uncle

Chapter: two

Tone:suspenseful

Mood:scary

Quotes:¨flames darted out of its base. Overhead a jet plane veered away like a sleek evil bird.¨

Rationale: This quote represents what madness and scary events happened in this chapter.

Chapter: 2

Tone: worried scared

Mood: sad

Quotes: If I die now I may never see my family again.

Rationale:I picked this because it has a lot of meaning in those few words.

Tone: Harried, Urgent

Mood: Scared, Rushed, Out-Of-Order

Quotes: “Go! All of you, now!”

Rationale: This is a big, if not the biggest moment in the book because it is when Salva flees his school, and the soldiers, without his family.

Chapter: 1

Tone: panicked and rushed

Mood: scared and chaotic

Quotes: "Go! all of you, now!"

Rationale: This quote helps explain the urgency and how panicked the professor and the students are.

Tone: anxiety

Mood: sad

Quotes: "I'm am so sorry, Salva," My uncle said quietly. "your friend...."

Rationale: I picked this because he feels sad that his friend is gone also on top of that he's has anxiety because he does not know what happened to his new friend he has just meet.

Chapter: 2

Tone: Serious; Brutal; Grim

Mood: Sympathetic 

Quotes: “There it was, a big thorn that had broken off right in the middle of her heel. Nya pushed at the skin around the thorn. Then she picked up another thorn and used it to poke and prod at the first one. She pressed her lips together against the pain.”

Rationale: It conveys part of the theme of suffering because of the pain she has to endure. It shows how life is tough without water in these countries.

Chapter: 5

Tone: The tone was celebratory, cheerful, and cheerful

Mood: painful and thankful.

Quotes: I can’t go to another country, salva thought. If i do, my family will never find me. The mood was

Rationale: I chose this quote because it is stating that Salva doesn’t want to leave the country, and is a big part of the story because if he goes to another country he may never see his family again.

Chapter:2

Tone:Sad and distraught 

Mood:sympathy and sadness

Quotes: nobody. Nothing.

They had left him.

He was alone.

Rationale: This chapter is heartfelt and sad, it makes the reader/audience want to go into the book and help the lost and alone little boy. 

Tone: Sad and frightful at the end.

Mood: Overwhelmed at the end. 

Quotes:” I am sorry,Salva. Your friend…. Marial.”

Rationale:This quote represents one of Salva’s hard times, when he lost his friend.

Tone: Survival of the fittest, desertion, sadness

Mood: Sympathetic

Quote: Why had they left without waking them up? He knew the answer: because he was a child… who would might tire easily and slow them down, and complain about being hungry, and cause trouble somehow.

Rationale: Since he was weak and of no use, Salva was left behind because the group thought he would lower their chances of survival.

Chapter:1

Tone: Panicked

Mood: Afraid 

Quotes:¨Where am I going?¨ ¨Where is my family?¨

Rationale:Because that was the introduction to the whole plot of the book of him running away.