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"I was seven years old when it happened. It was about 9 pm at night. We heard the neighbors screaming so we knew that the rebels were in the village. There were many people visiting in my house at the time, so all the men gathered in the main room. We had no guns, only knives. Soon the dog started barking, then we heard footsteps, and then we heard a knock on the door. They started calling for my father to come out. We didn’t answer, so they started shooting into the house. Everyone pushed against the door to try to keep it closed, but they knocked it down. My father saw that he couldn’t run, so he gave himself up. They took him away. Then they gathered all the men and boys, and marched us out of the back of the house. My brother tried to jump and climb up on the roof, but they saw him and shot him. I knew I had to try something different, so I waited until we were rounding a corner, and I jumped into a bush, and I kept crawling until I reached the other side, then I got up and ran. I ran all the way to the neighbor’s house, but they turned me away and locked the door. So I hid all night in the graveyard. The next day I returned to my house. They’d taken everything. They dumped my sick mother onto the floor and took her mattress. I found my father’s body in the barn. They’d cut off his arms and his legs.
A few years ago, I got a call on my cell phone from a twelve year old child from my village. He was calling me from a bus stop. He’d taken a bus into the city alone, and he was calling me to ask if I could help him find a way to go to school. Both of his parents had died of AIDS, and he had no money for tuition. I told him to stay where he was, and left work immediately to pick him up. At first I was very mad at him. He should not have travelled alone. But then I looked at him and I saw myself. I’d also been desperate to go to school after my father was killed, but we had no money. So even though I was suffering myself, I told him I would try to help him. My salary was not enough, so I tried many things to get the money. After work, I went to the landfill to hunt for recyclables. But after I paid to have them cleaned, there was no money left. Now I’m trying to make bricks. I have a small operation in the village to make bricks, and I sell them in the city. It doesn’t make much money, but it’s enough to pay tuition for the boy and three of his siblings."
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This is empathy because the father is going through getting shot so he gave himself up
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how did his parents die of aids?
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where is that at in the passage…
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why did they lock the door is is because they didn’t wanna get caught themselves?
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Yes , they probably didn’t want to get caught by the rebels
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i saw this movie where rebels came and take men and boy always and make them as a soldiers.
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This was going on in the movie I watched called the boy in the stripe pajamas.
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i know how it feel losing someone.
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I understand how he feels about losing someone important in your family
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People when they get caught by police they run and try to hide and they usally return to there home when everything is clear
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why did the neighbors turn him away and no let him come in and help him?
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Abu was 13 years old when rebels came to his village. This narrator was also young.
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How did they know that it was the rebels and not something else?
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they started calling his dads name
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I think that they are used to the rebels coming in the village because they hide instead of helping. They aren’t surprised.
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This is Empathy because they heard the neighbors screaming so this shows that they talk about some type of feelings
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I agree because this is showing the actions of him screaming which is empathy
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Why did they come after his farther and no one else?
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someone else like who ?
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That’s what im trying to figure out is it because the dad had something to do with them?
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Abu’s parents were taken away
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Abu was 13 when they come and got him and in this text they took his dad and the boys
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how do you know that was how old abu was when he was taken
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Because they said in the other text how old he was
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no in the other text he said that he was 13 when he first killed someone so gotcha.
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Why did he jump in the bushes?
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This shows Apathy because you can tell they don’t care about what they are doing.
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Why would his farther’s body be in the barn?
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Did his father do something bad that they killed him ?
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because the rebels put him there
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Why does the narrator bring up acts of apathy and empathy? What might his message or purpose to the audience be?
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how do you think they got aids?
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The women we have been reading about yesterday had a new house boy and his parents were poor.And in this text his parents died of Aids.so both of them had litle or no family.
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What does the narrator mean by this?
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This shows Empathy because he feels desperate so this means he is talking about his feelings
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This is sympathy because he feel sorry that the boy didn’t have any money. So he tried to help him
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who tried to help him?
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How much did tuition cost back then?
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why did they need his father to come out.
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No one Knows because they just took him with no say.
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This is apathy because they don’t care about the sick mother
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