book summary

The book was good it started out with this kid named Arnold and he's a Native American that lives on a reservation with his family. He went to a school on the reservation and he was all excited about going back to school until he gets his geometry book and sees his moms name in it then he throws it at his teacher and the book slams the teacher into the face. But his teacher wasn't mad at him he just told Arnold to leave the reservation so that he can have a better life ten anybody else in the reservation has. So he goes to a different school. The schools named is Reardon and it's all whites but at first no one liked him but After a while the whites get to like him and he makes lots of friends. But he likes this girl named penelope he had a huge crush on her and they became good friends. But there is a couple sad spots in the book. like there is one part were is grandmother get run over by a drunk driver. Then a friend of the family gets shot over a bottle of rum. Then his older sis die in a fire.

But after all that he dose fine. He beats his best friend rowdy in basketball.

I think it's a great book. it's so cool how he draws some stuff out like the book smashing into his teachers face that was just hilarious. it's a great book and i really recomened it to anyone.

A single slice revels them by. Naomi shihab Nye

An apple on the table

hides its seeds

so neatly

under seamless skin.

But we talk and talk and talk

to let some body

in.

This poem connects to ishmal because he trying to hide all his thoughts and pain inside. He thinks that if he releases his pain people will think down on him. But all he as to do is to talk to someone that is like a counselor so he can let people in that he never did in the war. Plus so he can go out and meet more people without hurting them.

Double-consciousness

Ishmal Has a double consciousness cause he is stuck between a boy and a soldier. When he was haveing thoughts about the war he was trying to think of what he did when he was younger. The camp he he's at is bring the kid in him out more but he still thinks about the war and he can't stop thinking of it. He's trying get to thinking like a kid again.

a long way gone poem

Going to a village to engage the
Rebels trying to find
Enormus amounts of drugs and food
Enjoys watching them die
Never to miss a rebel.

Shot to kill
Never getting caught
After hideing and
Killing
Everyone in site.

long way gone and god rew tired of us

The movie God grew tired of us. It is about these boys trying to get away for the war. They all grow up in a camp that helped them out the they found out that some of them were going to Amarica. When they get on the plane they got some food and they eat every thing sepritly even the butter and relish. But when they really got to the us they went to their apartment that they would sty at for a while and they looked at everything really weird. they didn't know ow to use anything. But after a while they got to know how to use every thing.

I think i kinda connects to long way gone because the boys in the book were trying to get away form the fighting and the boys for god grew tired of us were doing the same thing.



The cultulre diffrances between the us and africa. one is Christmas in Africa the dance around and sing. but in the us we give gifts and put decerations and a wole bunch of stuff.

text to movie

"Once the camp was in sight we would surround it and wait for te lieutenant's command. The rebels roamed about; some sat against walls, dozing off, and others passing around marijuana."

This reminds me of the movie Rambo 5 when Rambo and 6 other army guys that were sent to get prisoners. They came into the villiage at dark and they were people smokin' weed and people in the watch towers. but they got in the place and pulled out the prisoners.

I think Rambo 5 is a good movie but I can stop watching it. But Ishmeal can't; it's his life and he just can't pause it and go off and do something else. I could but that's his life; it's not a movie.
If Ishmael was in this country he wouldn't even be able to watch the Rambo movies because he is only twelve years old. He wouldn't even to be able to own a gun let alone be in the war.

the absolutely true diary of a part time Indian

"carriers of the dream wheel" By. N. Scoot Momday

This is the wheel of dreams

which is carried on their voices.

By means of which their voices turn

And center upon being.

It encircles the first world.

tis powerful wheel.

they shape their songs upon the wheel

And spin the names on the Earth and sky.

The aboriginal names .

They are old men' or men

who are old in their voices.

And they carry the wheel among the camps

saying: come,come,

Let us tell the old stories

let us sing the sacred songs

This connected to the book because all the Indians follow their dreams but they don't anymore because their always getting drunk and fighting. but the older indians are still kinda following their dreams and trying to make every one else do the same.