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For the author's message is to keep your things close to you because you never know when it could be taken away from you.
In Pagirinya africa 1989, small shelters are wrapped in a white, waterproof material emblazoned with the blue logo of the U.N. refugee agency. The people have tents and no homes because the rebels burned their homes down.This happened because chapter 8 Pg 53 It says “Most of the tukels were burned to the ground.” “There was only the smell of smoke.” This quote ties in with the theme because stephen didn’t really keep the things that are close to him close because his mom died and she was really close to him. Taban is from South Sudan's capital, Juba. He said his neighbors were attacked by militants in July. His family
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What are you saying? Wol’s interested in offering us a bride price for you? He’s just a Boy! He’s fourteen! Only threes older than I am!” From this quote the reader is being told that Stephen and Naomi disagree on who she should marry. It can be inferred that Stephen and Naomi have a different perspective on who she should marry. On the other hand Naomi is set on a person she wants to marry and Stephan thinks she should think about it because on page4 Naomi asked Stephan “What do you think?” “Would he be a good husband¨ One character that changed in the book The Year Of No Rain is Wol. In the beginning of the book he is chill and hangs out with Stephen sometimes.But after about 7 chapters in after they got raided.He started to get closer to stephen like he didn't want him to go to after they lost Naomi.Basically Wol got a little more soft during the duration of the book.
Readers of the book The Year Of No Rain by Alice Mead are sucked into the story because throughout the story the boys stick together like family they never leave each other throughout the story which succeeds the author's message of the

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