chapter1

1. Refugees that walked through their town were usually always worried or traumatized because of the horrible things they had lived.
2. The first time the main character In the book was affected by war he was 12 years old.
3. The kids were fascinated with rap music they would listen to sugar hill gang’s rapper’s delight.
4. They are going to Matru Jong to get away from war.-
5. On the trip they took notebooks of lyrics that they were working on they stuffed their pockets with cassettes of rap albums. They were wearing baggy jeans and underneath that they wore soccer shorts and sweatpants for dancing.
6. At a river that they stopped to swim at the narrator got out before junior and Talloi and ran with their clothes.
7. From the description of his grandparents I get the impression that they are very nice people. Who love their grand children a lot.
8. When they arrived at Matru Jong they stayed khalilou’s house.
9. They heard that the rebels had attacked Mogbwemo, their home.
10. They went to a wharf to hear news about their family but no one knew anything about their family.
11. The living situation between the main characters family is that his parents are divorced and his dad pays for his school and he doesn’t get along with his stepmom.
12. As they were leaving in a canoe a women with flip-flops told them that too much blood has been spilled were you are going. Even the good spirits have fled from that place.
13. when they got to his grandmother’s village there was nothing it was deserted then a Volkswagen popped out of no where with a guy whose arm was bleeding.
14. they decided to return to Matru jong because they saw that Mogbwemo was a place that they couldn’t call home anymore and that his parents couldn’t possibly be there anymore.
15. New regulations at matru jong were that soldiers established checkpoints and made the curfew at 7 pm
16. the boys agreed that the war was just a passing phase that wouldn’t last over six months.
17. what the old man meant by we must strive to be like the moon is that we must all strive to be like the moon is that the moon is always peaceful.