https://padlet.com/brody_doser/wxvnp5yroxw5he3b by Ishmael Beah en-us 2020-11-20 18:46:14 UTC 2020-11-23 21:38:16 UTC hello@padlet.com brody_doser https://padlet.com/brody_doser/wxvnp5yroxw5he3b/wish/946634248 Textual Evidence: "Whenever I looked at rebels during raids, I got angrier, because they look like the rebels who played cards in the ruins of the village where I had lost my family. So when the lieutenant gave orders, I shot as many as I could, but I didn't feel better" (Beah 122)
Question 1: What realization came to the character’s mind? 
 Ishmael realizes that no matter how many rebels he kills, he won't get over the loss of his family.
Question 2: What inferences can you make about what the character will do now or think now?
Ishmael will repeatedly want to kill rebels to avenge his family, even though he won't get over the loss from doing it.]]> 2020-11-20 18:50:35 UTC https://padlet.com/brody_doser/wxvnp5yroxw5he3b/wish/946634248 brody_doser https://padlet.com/brody_doser/wxvnp5yroxw5he3b/wish/946645983 Textual Evidence: "Is there an end to this madness, and is there any future for him beyond the bushes?" (Beah 45)
Question 1: What did you wonder about when you thought about the question?
I wondered what I would do and feel if I was in his situation. I though would I just give up or would I push through no matter how hard it is.
Question 2: How is this question important to the story and how do you think the character will answer it? 
The question is important because it dictated what Ishmael would do in the future and how the war would affect him in the future. Ishmael always tried to survive and not die, and always tried to fight through the physical and emotional trauma from the war.]]> 2020-11-20 18:53:11 UTC https://padlet.com/brody_doser/wxvnp5yroxw5he3b/wish/946645983 brody_doser https://padlet.com/brody_doser/wxvnp5yroxw5he3b/wish/946648018 Textual Evidence: "'This isnt your fault, you know. It really isn't You'll get through this.'" (Beah 151)
Question 1: What advice or insight did the wiser character share?
The advice that the staff at the treatment center said was that it wasn't the boys' fault for what they did during the army and war.
Question 2: What inferences can you make about how this will affect the character who received the advice?
At first Ishmael hated the saying, but he slowly started to believe in it. Ishmael starts to come to terms to what he did during the war.]]> 2020-11-20 18:53:37 UTC https://padlet.com/brody_doser/wxvnp5yroxw5he3b/wish/946648018 brody_doser https://padlet.com/brody_doser/wxvnp5yroxw5he3b/wish/946648931 Textual Evidence:  "My hands had begun to shake uncontrollably and my migraines had returned with a vengeance." (Beah 140)
Question 1: Why do you think the author keeps repeating this word, phrase, image, idea, or situation?
I think Ishmael wanted us to know the amount of trauma he had due to the war.
Question 2: What does this Again and Again signpost lead you to think is going to happen later in the story?
I think that Ishmael will never stop having migraines and nightmares of and from the war and his time as a soldier.]]> 2020-11-20 18:53:49 UTC https://padlet.com/brody_doser/wxvnp5yroxw5he3b/wish/946648931 brody_doser https://padlet.com/brody_doser/wxvnp5yroxw5he3b/wish/946649729 Textual Evidence: "When I was very little, my father used to say, 'If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.'" (Beah 54)
Question 1: What memory came to the character’s mind?
Ishmael remembers a quote from his father when he was younger. 
Question 2: Why do you think this memory is important to the character or the story?
This memory was important to Ishmael because it allowed him to not give up, even though he was lost in a forest and unsure about what to do. It also made Ishmael think ]]> 2020-11-20 18:54:00 UTC https://padlet.com/brody_doser/wxvnp5yroxw5he3b/wish/946649729 brody_doser https://padlet.com/brody_doser/wxvnp5yroxw5he3b/wish/946664070 Textual Evidence: "Sometimes we were asked to leave for war in the middle of a movie. We would come back hours later after killing many people and continue the movie as if we had just returned from intermission. We were always either st the front lines, watching a war, or doing drugs. There was no time to be alone or to think." (Beah 124)

Question 1: What was unexpected about the action/feeling? 
It was unexpected because it shows how Ishmael accepted his role, and he doesn't even really judge what he's doing.
Question 2: What inferences can you make about why the character would act this way?
I think this shows how Ishmael gave up and accepted that his new life is killing, watching movies, and doing drugs.

]]> 2020-11-20 18:57:18 UTC https://padlet.com/brody_doser/wxvnp5yroxw5he3b/wish/946664070 brody_doser https://padlet.com/brody_doser/wxvnp5yroxw5he3b/wish/946665148 Beah, Ishmael. A Long Way Gone. Sarah Chrichton Books, 2008]]> 2020-11-20 18:57:32 UTC https://padlet.com/brody_doser/wxvnp5yroxw5he3b/wish/946665148