Life in Khalid's eyes

I read the book “Guantanamo Boy” by Anna Perera. In the book a boy named Khalid, from England,  goes on vacation with his family to see their relatives. His relatives lives in Pakistan which is a country at war and this makes it is dangerous to be in Pakistan. A few days into his stay Khalid decides to stay up all night playing a game his friend made, Bomber One. Khalid goes to look for his dad and gets caught up in a crowd protesting that he doesn’t understand.

Khalid meets a man named Jim and goes with him to an apartment. Although Jim says Khalid’s father isn’t there, the apartments empty, so he goes home. Soon men are pouring in and abducting him, he is first asked questions and eventually he is put in jail in Kandahar. He is taken to Guantanamo Bay and held without charge. He hopes of getting home to his family and dreams are crushed after being tortured repeatedly. He is denied his freedom even though he is innocent, after 2 years of torture, he is released.

    I thought the book was good and perfect for a teenager like me. There was action, little bits of comedy, typical life of a teenager, and sad parts to give it a change. There was some parts that seemed to drag on and II would have preferred if the book was in first person. I think it would have given the reader more of a feeling that they were there while Khalid was getting beaten and torture instead of it being told in some elses point of view.

Priceless & Price

 
No matter who you are, no matter where you are from you have something you
value something and something that has value. What is the difference between valuing something and something has a value? Well, when you value something it means u love and cherish it but something having value is something you could love and cherish or you might not but it could be sold. One of the biggest things people things people don't realize is invaluable is your house, sure you can sell your house but its where you live, eat, sleep, and relax. Another invaluable item is your family, they are always there for you in good or bad and they always know what to say. Here are two examples of what to me is priceless and has a price.
I am going to start by telling you about my priceless item, well in this case they are a person. She is always there for me when I do something she doesn’t like or even hates but she helps guide me. Nobody else in the whole entire world could replace her, she is my mom. My mom is smart, funny, amazing, pretty, and I love her. When I wake up in the morning when she’s mad at me or not I always smile. My mom is an amazing cook and I love eating her cooking; my favorite meal my mom makes is spaghetti with meat sauce, it is so good. My two favorite parts of the day is when I get to come home from school or golf and shout, “Hey mom!” and my mom would say, “Hi, sweetie how was your day?” and right before I go to bed I’ll walk down stairs and say “Night mom” and she’d say “Night sweetie, love you” then I’d go “love you too”. Those two moments of my day are the most important things to me. To me my mom is my everything, without her I’d be walking into walls. I love my mom more then anything.
I have a few things I can have value but I will only choose two to write about. Something I can put a value on is my cell phone. I just got it taken away but when I had it I choose to say that it was my item that has value. My phone was the Droid X2 the only reason I had a phone is because my mom was nice enough to get me the Droid X2 phone. I like my cell phone because I can play my favorite game Angry Birds on my old cell phone I couldn’t. I got this cell phone at the end of the summer when my mom upgraded her old cell phone.
The second item I choose to write about is my alarm clock. I love my alarm clock but I also hate it, my alarm clock saves my life waking me up at 6:30 so I can eat breakfast and get ready for school and make it on time but I don’t tend to like to be woken up at 6:30. My alarm clock is an ihome, an ihome is a little music player that an ipod plugs into and plays music or charges. I choose these to put values on because I like these items but I don’t necessarily need them to live but I couldn’t go one day with out my mom.
          Both items are different and oddly similar. I value my mom, cell phone, and alarm clock but I couldn’t sell my mom. My mom and my alarm clock are very similar and very different when I want to sleep in or I forget to turn on my alarm clock my mom will come and say “Robert, time for school” or “Get up” or nudge me a little to wake me up so I’m not late for school. My mom and alarm clock aren’t the same because my mom  can’t play my favorite songs or recharge my ipod but my alarm clock can’t  make me my favorite meal, spaghetti. Same with my cell phone and my mom, my cell phone can’t recharge my ipod or make me my favorite meal. But I can’t text my family and friends or play my favorite game on my alarm clock or on my mom. But it tells time like how my alarm clock does, and it notifies me about events or where I have to be like how my mom does.
           I value my mom, cell phone and alarm clock all very differently but I can’t sell my mom. To me my mom does everything picks me up from school, sports, or other events; my cell phone only calls my mom to pick me up. I have alarm clock on this because if I didn’t id be sleeping till whenever I want to and miss my ride to school. My cell phone is a big part of my it sometimes helps me with homework, lets me stay in-touch with friends and entertains me. At the end I am waking up on time to go to school, calling my mom to pick me up and eating her amazing spaghetti.