Vocabulary
An event that causes death, destruction, or disaster.
What is tragedy?
Ebo, Sisi, Uncle Patrick, and Kwame are from this small country in West Africa. Ebo's journey to find his brother and sister started here.
What is the country of Ghana?
In Illegal, the narrator tells the story from a limited perspective.
This narrative strategy applies to the general atmosphere of the story or the emotions it evokes in the reader.
What is mood?
Our narrator is a caring and compassionate young boy who often goes out of his way to comfort this friends. He is often the voice of reason on the journey. This term is connected to characterization.
What is Ebo's personality?
Someone is not authorized by law or is against the rules to enter a particular country. They lack "proper" documentation.
What is Illegal?
What is the city of Agadez?
After Ebo falls ill, this main character takes on the leadership role. He works the most and saves up enough money for the dinghy to Italy.
Who is Kwame?
This writing strategy shows the reader a scene from the character’s past.
What is flashback?
The characters are drained, alienated, and restless while they travel through the Sahara Desert.
When the person telling the story knows what every character is thinking, feeling, saying, and doing.
What is an omniscient narrator?
The majority of the novel takes place in this major body of water connected to the Atlantic Ocean. During their journey, the boys traverse in a balloon boat called a dinghy.
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
A criminal who helps bring individuals from one place to another in exchange for money.
What is a migrant smuggler?
Ebo is intelligent and a leader in his community. He is caring and compassionate young bog. His personality refers to one type of writing strategy.
What is characterization?
The novel documents numerous traumatic events: characters dying, catastrophic emergencies, and extremely negative emotions.
Our characters feel intense pain after losing a loved one.
What is grief?
When readers connect with the characters and understand the experience and feelings they feel throughout the story.
What is empathy?
This location is extremely hot and lacking water. The mood is harsh, intense, and difficult.
What is the Sahara Desert?
Reading about Cammo's death was traumatic. It was devastating to witness a good character dying. This event refers to what vocabulary term?
This writing strategy refers to the attitude of the author, narrator, or character towards a subject.
What is tone?
If our story was told by a lying, baseless, and untrustworthy narrator. Our narrator would be...
What is an unreliable narrator?
During certain situations, marginalized individuals may not have the time, resources, or ability to make rational decisions, forcing them to sacrifice their humanity in the process.
What is crisis response?
Razak, Nuru, and Kwame support Ebo's recovery in this major city. This city is considered dangerous because of the street gangs, wild dogs, dirty water, and the police presence.
What is the city of Tripoli?
Ebo reunites with his sister, which is such a wonderful event because that was his ultimate goal. But this reunion is at the cost of the life of his brother and best friend Kwame and his travel companions Nuru, Razak, and Cammo.
What is survivor's guilt?
In Agadez, Ebo is feeling alone and scared. He can not find his brother, Kwame. He ends up sleeping in the sewer. This event is what type of writing strategy.
What is internal conflict?
Ebo tells everyone to flip the dinghy over when water starts to flood in. Ebo sings to the crying baby on the bus. Ebo uses the antiseptic wipes that he finds on the floor to help people in exchange for food. These are the many _____ to his problems.
What are the solutions to Ebo's problems?