CH 20 A Long Way Gone The Meeting

I named CH 20 of A Long Way Gone The Meeting because in the Chapter Ishmael goes to New York and Interacts with other Kids from other Countries. He also meets Laura a Storyteller. In The Day of the Meeting he gives a speech about Sierra Leone and Keeps Contact with Laura who will become his future mother.

CH 21 A Long Way Gone Vocabulary Words

Apprentice
Definition: A person who works for another in order to gain a certain knowledge.
Sentence: The Doctors APPRENTICE learned how to give a shot.










Auspiced
Definition: To patronage or support.
Sentence: Many people AUSPICED the civil rights movement.













Conducted
Definition: To stand in front of a group of musicians or singers and direct their playing or singing.
Sentence: The Conductor CONDUCTED the Orchestra for an entire hour.







Halted
Definition: To stop moving In motion.
Sentence: The stop sign HALTED many cars on the street.










Looted
Definition: Taking anything without permission, or stealing.
Sentence: The Pirate LOOTED the money he stole from the bank.











Primary
Definition: The first or highest rank of importance.
Sentence: Chief Inspector is the Highest PRIMARY rank in law enforcement.











Predicament
Definition: A difficult or perplexing situation.
Sentence: The man was in a PREDICAMENT situation.










Reconcile
Definition: To compose, settle, or bring into agreement.
Sentence: The two business have RECONCILED there differences and merged there companies.






Residues
Definition: The remainder or aftermath of something.
Sentence: There wasn’t much RESIDUES after the bombing of Hiroshima.








Tingling
Definition: To have a sensation of slight prickles, stings, or tremors, as from cold, a sharp blow, excitement, etc
Sentence: The person started to feel a TINGLING sensation in there fingers.




Vaults
Definition: Arched structure made out of concrete, metal, or brick.
Sentence: The bank VAULT was empty after a pirate took the money.

CH 20 A Long Way Gone Vocabulary Words

Accumulating
Definition: To gather or collect
Sentence: The person has been ACCUMMULATING cards since he was little.












Aimlessly
Definition: Without aim or Purposely.
Sentence: The Blind man walked AIMLESSLY into the wrong direction.














Awed
Definition: Power to inspire fear.
Sentence: Hitler AWED many governments in Europe to surrender.











Baffled
Definition: To confuse bewilder or perplex.
Sentence: The man was BAFFLED by the taxes he had to pay.














Compelling
Definition: To use force.
Sentence: The officer had to COMPELL to arrest the girl.









Facilitators
Definition: A person responsible for leading or coordinating the work of a group.
Sentence: The Lifeguard was a Camp FACILITATOR in charge of the pool.












Generated
Definition: To come into existence, cause to be, produce.
Sentence: The Wolf man GENERATED from the moonlight.











Inffluential
Definition: A person who Exerts or can Exert Strong Influence.
Sentence: People with a lot of Wisdom are very INFLUENTIAL.










Mesmerized
Definition: To Fascinate.
Sentence: The Magician MESMERIZED almost the entire Audience.








Oriented
Definition: The Countries of East Asia.
Sentence: Japan controlled almost all of the Countries in the ORIENT part of Asia.









Overwhelmed
Definition: To cover or bury beneath a mass of something.
Sentence: Many people were OVERWHELMED under there house after the Haiti Earthquake.









Radiator
Definition: Any of various heating devices.
Sentence: The Microwave was the easiest RADIATING machine in the house.

Ch 21 A Long Way Gone Questions

1. The tingling sensation he gets in his stomach is remembering walking on a moving sidewalk in Amsterdam airport.
2. He has never seen so many white people, all hurriedly dragging there bags.
3. In his school they had not enough school materials, and the classes were outside.
4. The students had to help there teachers grow crops in the gardens, it was the only way teachers who haven't been paid for years could make a living.
5. The other children have heard of Ishmael and Mohamed’s past solider life.
6. I wouldn’t want to be there friends because we don’t know if they are good people.
7. On May 25, 1997 there was a loud noise in the city.
8. The Rebels caused the noise in the morning. They wanted to overthrow the president of the country.
9. Some of the prisoners who escaped went to the houses of the judges and lawyers who sentenced them to kill them, and others joined the rebels in the army.
10. The Rebels are so desperate for becoming a president that they would use Children, prisoners and other people just to win the war.
11. It doesn’t explain the difference of the Prison Systems.
12. I would feel like the war would never end.
13. People started looting, riots, and just chaos.
14. I do think we need laws, because places like this would be dangerous an I don’t want to live there.
15. The Rebels would use Explosives to break open banks vaults.
16. The Secret Market would Secretly sell food to the civilians of Sierra Leone
17. Over the Megaphone the Rebels announce that the have Overthrown the elected President.
18. The civilians were hiding, running and Screaming.
19. Mohamed was continuing coughing.
20. The Gun shots were continuing for over five months.
21. Most of the time people ate soaked raw rice.
22. His Uncle started to become sick and then died.
23. Ishmael thought that some of his past friends were still in the army and that they would kill him if they found out they would have killed him.
24. I think I would get trapped then be forced to join he rebels or die.
25. The only way to leave Freetown is to take a Bus out of the city, without getting caught.
26. The Bus Reached the Final destination in the town Kambia.
27. I think the solders were strict because they probably don’t want them to smuggle anything.
28. Ishmael was in the Bus, but it was overcrowded.
29. Ishmael made it out of Freetown and into Conakry.
30. I think Ishmael is able to escape death because he keeps moving forward and doesn’t usually have negative thoughts. And doesn’t let tragic moments bother him.
31. I think Ishmael could probably help the other people by giving them good advice on how to survive and by giving them directions to other towns.
32. The story about the monkey is that if the hunter kills the monkey his mom will die, but if they don’t the dad will die. Its significant because it puts the person in a situation whether to let one live and the other die.
33. I kept on hearing the story that babies came from storks and I always use to think how was it possible.

Ch 20 A Long Way Gone Questions

1. Ishmael’s vision of New York city was a place were there was a lot of violence.
2. New York city is a place were there is many tall buildings and many businesses and services.
3. He saw winter in Christmas movies and didn't knew what it was.
4. He was very cold and felt like his face froze.
5. One time when I was going hiking with my cousins we saw an Indian culture.
6. They stayed in the Vanderbilt YMCA hotel.
7. There were some kids from: Lebanon, Cambodia, Kosovo, Brazil, Norway, Yemen, Mozambique, Palestine, Guatemala, New York, South Africa, Peru, Northern Ireland, Vietnam, India, Papua New Guinea, Malawi, Sierra Leone and more.
8. There was some food that Ishmael never heard about and didn’t knew about it.
9. He learned that the other kids also had a difficult childhood and that they have gone through great journeys to attend the conference.
10. Laura Simms was a white story teller.
11. He didn’t accept the winter jacket because it was a women's jacket. If I was very cold I would have used it.
12. in the times square they saw people in there underwear, music videos, and numbers.
13. In the conference the representative from each country would give a speech.
14. I've Come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in the process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge, then revenge, and revenge, and revenge will never come to an end.
15. I do agree with his speech because he is right about the revenge and that the war was very brutal and turned children into solders.
16. Since I have been with the court my life has changed.
17. Since Ishmael was trying to get away from the world he finds that raping helps him move forward.
18. They left New York on November 15,1996.
19. Ishmael was now going to return to Freetown.
20. I think in the next chapter he will decide to live with Laura and will come the New York again.
21. I think he might be recognized more in Sierra Leone after appearing in the conference.
22. I think he can go back to his friends.