Child Soldiers
This is the side of the war on which Ishmael fights. (Government OR Rebel/RUF)
What is Government?
This is Ishmael's home country, where the war takes place.
What is Sierra Leone?
This is the organization that rescues Ishmael from the war.
What is UNICEF?
True or False: Ishmael never finished high school.
What is FALSE?
Storytelling is very important in Ishmael's culture. Name ONE of the folk stories told in the book.
What is: Hunter & Wild Boars, The Moon, Bra Spider, Killing the Monkey, etc.
True or False: Many children chose to rejoin the war, even after rehabilitation.
What is TRUE?
Ishmael goes to Mattru Jong BEFORE the war begins for this reason.
*Because of this, he is separated from his parents and most of his family when the attacks start.
What is to perform rap in a talent show?
This is the family member that Ishmael first lives with after leaving Benin Home.
*Hint* They had never met before the war!
Who is Uncle Tommy?
*(Aunt Sallay & cousins too!)
True or False: Ishmael injured other soldiers during the war, but he never killed anyone.
What is FALSE?
This is the type of war that was fought between the Rebels (RUF) and the government.
What is a CIVIL war?
Name one symptom of PTSD that Ishmael or the other child soldiers experienced during the war.
What is/are: Nightmares, withdrawal, migraines, etc.
This is where Ishmael travels to give a speech for the UN.
What is New York?
Not only do these objects aid Ishmael in his recovery, they also help him to learn English and protect him during the war by showing that he is just a child.
What are Ishmael's rap cassettes?
This is how old Ishmael was when the war first impacted him.
What is 12?
This is the part of the body where Ishmael was once shot.
What is his foot?
True or false: Child soldiers who left the war would be killed by friends and former comrades.
What is TRUE - Ishmael leaves his country because he fears he will be killed or re-recruited
This is the capital of Ishmael's home country, where his Uncle Tommy lives.
What is Freetown?
True or False: Ishmael's initial reaction to being rescued is that he's rather stay a soldier in the war.
What is TRUE?
True or False: Uncle Tommy was killed when the rebels attacked Freetown.
What is FALSE? He became ill.
This is approximately the number of years that the war lasted.
What is 11? (March 23, 1991 – January 18, 2002)
Name ONE of the violent ways, besides shooting, that soldiers killed their enemies.
What is: digging own graves/burying alive, throat slitting competitions, burning villages, etc.
This is the country Ishmael escapes to at the end of the book (before he later returns to the USA).
What is Guinea?
This is the phrase that the rehabilitation workers frequently repeat to the boys in recovery.
What is "It's not your fault"
This is the year that Ishmael leaves his country for good.
What is 1997?
The Rebels invade this type of mine so that they could steal the resources found there.
What is a diamond mine?