Chapter 11 Questions

Question # 1
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         

What does Daoud mean when he says “it helps many people just to have someone to listen to and write down their story down; if their suffering is noted somewhere, by someone, anyone , than they can more easily let loose of it because they know where it is?” Can you relate to this statement? Explain

I think it may mean like if they have so much stuff that they have gone through it feels better to let it all out and have people know how they felt and also I think that they also feel like if there is someone that cares than they’re not as alone as they would have been keeping it all in and that they are comforted but someone else; with the last part “.. Because they know where it is” I think that means the person that they told is or may be the only other person that knows about what that person has gone through. soemtimes i can relate to this in thee sence that if i am mad or upset i fell much better when there is someone to talk to about my situation.


Question # 2


When Daoud is describing the difference between NGO workers and ournalists he says,"The reporters were so different from the NGO eorkers. They didnt care about paperwork or the legalities of borders. they just wante to write stories that would help people. They also drank alcohol a lot."Why do you think they drank alot?

i think that they probally drank alot because everyday they wouold have to see and write about all the horrible thigs that happen and maybhe the alchohol relaxes them. They also drank alot becuase they may be under strss of trying to get enough information to actuallyh help the people and if they wrote something that doesnt help they feel like they've failed.. or they just like to drink alcohol because they can buy it to enjoy.


Question # 3

When describing why he brought som beer to Lori and Megan,  Daoud says "You have to find a weay to laugh a ltittle bit each day despite everything, or your heart will simiply run out of joy that makes it go"

My  prdiction was correct beacue i did talk baout how they have too see all those things and that the alcohol realxes them. I think that what Daoud says is true. Because even when i'm down i feel like when i laugh it somewhat gets better !          


Question # 4

When describing the captured attackers in the village Daoud refers to the boys age (14) THREE times in two paragraphs- why do you think he does this?

 I think that he may have done that to make a point that even the youngest kids are easily minipulated by the government, because they told them that they would give them money to kill other people. I think that its sad that a 14 year olds life was taken away because the government was being selfish.









                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

What are the characrters trying to overcome (conflict): The character in my story is trying to  overcome personality disorder.

What is the message, moral or lessson (theme):  The message is that even thought he doesn't want to heart the innocent women he can't stopp unless he mans up and trys to get help, if he;s willing to save all those people and give up his life to get better.

What might happen in the story (basic plot events): The charaecter, is a sucessful buisness man but also has personallity disorder so when he gets home after work everynight his "other" takes over and kills. The "other" only kills brunettes because of something that happened to him when he was a child that had to do with brunettes. And he can't control it at all, and after he kills at night he always wakes up with some innocent girls blood on him and he doesn't rmember a thing, but he knows he did it and he can't tell anyone because he won't know what will happen to him and he doesn't want to get into trouble. (he trys to stay up one night to try to stophimslef from going out and trys to tie himslef down before his "other" takes over)

Who are the characters (antagonist/protagonist): him and himslef; he has personality disorder and he is trying to battle himslef.

The setting (time place circumstance and mood): he acts like a normal man in the day and in the night he goes crazy and so the mood during the day is a confident buisness man and at night the mood is a suffering mad man out to get all the brunettes.

Sight:                                           Sound:                                  Smell:                                           
                                     
fogg                                            clinging of knife                       blood
wet ground                                  moaning                                 swampy
dark green                                  screaming                               a nasty stench from the ogre
dark path ahead                          crickets                                  decayg flesh
vines                                           my heart        
ogre                                           vampire sucking blood
bugs
 
Touch                                                      
                       
spider webs                                            
sweat forming in the palms of my hands

I was walking home on on a foggy night, I was coming from my best friends house. I wanted to get home faster so I decided to take a chance and got through "The Woods". They call it "the woods" because there has been times when people have attempted to pass thrugh but have never come out, and no one bothered to go look for them because they were scared for their own lives. Me it's scetchy but it's probablly just some myth that people tell to scare children, hah I'm not scared. As I stood infront of the viney entrance I looked deep into the forest and saw black. I slowly started to walk into the froest one step at a time I could feel the sweat starting to form, as I was walking in I walked through a spider web and jumped! it was gross but I just shooed it out of my face, but I could still feel the mild pounding of my heart. As I continued to get deeper in the forest i started to hear things; I could hear a chain saw and moaning zombies with decaing flesh in the distance. I walked futher and further and started to hear more and more things but not only could I hear I could start to smell it too the blood from the people that have been bitten and killed I could smell the zombies flesh, and I could smell the horrid ogre that I saw from the corner of my eye staring at me I stiffened as I saw it, the clinging of it's knife making me nervous I could feel the sweat start to form in the palmss of my hands and the swaet from my face buning my eyes. In my head I counted to three to get ready to run and scram because I could sence the ogre getting ready to kill me. 1......2......3.... "AHHHHHH!!" I ran like I have never run before and as I ran I could hear the ogre behind me grunting, i ran faster and soon in the distance saw light from the 'outside'. As i got closer to the end of the woods i knew the ogre stopped chasing me cause i could no longer see it behing me and I could no longer hear it, or smell it... but I  didn't want to take a chnce and just ran to the end. When i got to the end off the woods i could feel my heart pounding , but i could feel myself relax. Than I walked all the way home acting like nothing happened.  

Scary Dream

When I was younger around the age of 7 or 8 I'm actually not sure I had the scaryist dream. I still think that it's was a really scary becasue I felt like I was in it and stuck in it. So the dream was I was in this wierd witch town with tons of witches on flying brooms and so I'm in this dark place and I felt like I knew I was in this dream so basically half awake half asleep and that was even worse because I wanted to wake up at one point cause these demon witches were chasing me and I was running away on a flying broom and I wanted to get out of the dream and wake up but I couldnt !. So I'm just half sleeping and basically freaking out in my sleep and than all of a sudden i was up and i was so relieved and a little traumatized haha !. But than I got out of bed because I needed a drink of water  and I crash into my closet door and I didnt think it was worth finding my door so I just went back to bed and when I woke up again I had a bump on my head from the closet door!

Second dream that I thought was actually pretty scetchy  was I was in this field filled with bees when all of a sudden they started chasing me. I was scared out of my mind., so im running and all of a sudden one of the bees stung me in the back and I woke up instintally and my back started huring where the bee "stung" me ! it was so wierd.                                                                                                                

A Hope/Dream For My Future

One day i would love to go to Paris. For the longest time I've always wondered what it would be like to stand on the Eiffel Tower and look at the view. I actually do have family there but I've never actually had the chance to meet my cousins I've only met my aunt and uncle in Ethiopia so I hope that can be and excuse for me to go there haha. But I do hope that one day I can go to Pairs and go to the top of the Eiffel Tower and go shopping and see the sites !

Something Important To Me Right Now

Some thing that is imporant to me right now is my Tae Kwan Do. I say this out of all things because I am at a spot where I have to work hard to get my double black stripe, which is one belt away from  black belt. I am going to be doing my test on October. 22, and it is taking place at my Tae Kwan Do. I always get really nervous doing tests so I hope I can do really good so I can pass. I am also a little afraid because last time I tested I broke  my toes and bruised 2 others so im hoping that this goes a lot smoother.  have tested a lot before,I had to test for the following belts my yellow belt;blue belt; red stripe; red belt and black stripe which I have right now, but its's still really nerve racking since it gets harder and harder each time. But I have been training hard and over all I can't wait until I test an get one belt higher to my black belt.

Favourite Memory

Going to Ethiopia is one of my favourite memory. I went there 3 years ago for a month (I was in grade 7 at the time). Most people usually hate the plane ride but I loved everything about it, okay maybe not the long walks trough the airport but everything else. The plane ride there was 24 hours long and yes it was very tiring but I enjoyed it. It was really different then living here because it was less developed but I still loved it. When I went there I met a lot of my cousins that I've never met before because the last time I went there I was 3 years old and so most of them I didn't remember and i got to see my grandma on my mom and dad's side since i never really get to see them it was nice. This is my favourite memory because it was sort of my first time being really far away from home.The traditional food that I had lots of was called injera, but even though we weren't in Winnipeg I still had pizza, and all the stuff that I would have here so I was all good. Over all I loved going to Ethiopia and I would love to go there again!