Saturday, February 23, 2008

code talker

p57~p67
Vocabulary list
1. Tribal
2. Barbed
3. Scalp
4. Plucked
5. Insult
6. Cot
7. Facial
8. Jarhead
9. Combat
10. Growled
11. Floudered

Summary
Kii Yazhi didn't go to school because he went with his parents to the Marine Corps office near his tribal headquarters to sign up. Kii Yazhi saw the Marines and other things are related with Marine. He got the kind of training because Kii Yazhi really wanted to be a Marine. He did many things during boot camp. In boot camp, there was a one purpose. That was to take young men who are out of shape and make them physically. He ran, climbed, and did calisthenics. There were somethings that are hard to do. At boot camp, there were hand-to-hand combat and weapons training too. In boot camp, the swimming test was a basic training but it scared people.
In boot camp, Kii Yanzi began to learn things about white men he'd never known. There was a white man named Georgia boy. He was teaching how to read English. Also he could help Kii Yazhi to think of love of his parent had for him.
He realized several things.
1. Bilagaanaas are not born knowing everything.
2. Many of the most important ways, white men are no different from Navajos.
3. People can always learn from each other.

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