Fifth ROAR Entry

Comments
1. I agree with Riverbend when she that everyone takes things for granted.
2. It's amazing how hearing bombs explode is a daily thing.
3. Riverbend is always negative about the things around her.
4. Schools shouldn't be getting bombed. They are supposed to be a place of safety.
5. Little by little people are being stripped of their freedom.

Questions
1. What does she mean when she says "If you see death, you settle for a fever"?
2. Why was she so negative abouther family and the things going on around her?
3. What caused the electricity to be limited?
4. What caused the water to be limited?

Vocabulary
1. hoots - used as an expression of impatience, dissatisfaction, objection, or dislike. pg 47
2. dinars - Any of several units of gold and silver currency formerly used in the Middle East. pg 48
3. wincing - to draw back or tense the body, as from pain or from a blow. pg 48

Literary Terms
1. "kept coming and going as of undecided." The water was being personified. pg 47
2. "Baghdad has been unstable." The city was being personified. pg 48

Summary
1. This section of the boo"Baghdad has been unstable" pg 48 was about the struggle to get water and electricity in the city that Riverbend lives in.