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Chapter 10

Chapter ten was one of the most emotionally sad chapters. It starts with the boys from place to place, village to village. They don’t stop, and they are eating off almost nothing. Ishmael has a lot of time to think because none of his friends are talking, and neither is he. He goes through memories through his head, and many of the things he has done with his grandmother. One of the nights, they come up to a bridge. The boys hear some movement and see some figures, and when the figures walk off, the boys stand to find that saidu was, they though, dead. They start to take him across the bridge many of the boys crying, when he wakes up again. He shrugs it off and said he fainted because he thought he saw ghosts. They attribute his fain to the bird he had eaten that had just fallen out of the sky. Soon they come up to a large village, and they decide to stay there for a while. One of the women there says she knows the boys and that she knows where there families are. They are excited, but they decide they need to stay and rest. That night, they hear a bunch of dogs crying out, and they sound like humans crying out. Later that night, they try to make saidu again, but this time, he truly is dead. At first, Ishmael cannot cry because it is to shocking. Then at the funeral the next morning, he concedes, and finally starts crying. The chapter ends with the boys heading to the next village.