1. Inferences When authors of books don’t tell everything about characters and events, readers have to use context (background information from the story) and prior knowledge (stuff you already know) to make an inference.

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15. Take a deep breath. Now we’re going to try it with text.

16. “Salva let out his breath in relief. He was glad that she was not Nuer. The Nuer and the Dinka had a long history of trouble” (16).

17. “An iron giraffe. A red giraffe that made very loud noises. The giraffe was a tall drill that had been brought to the village by the two men who had visited earlier” (70).

18. “Marial put his arm around Salva’s shoulders. He seemed to know what Salva was thinking, for he said, ‘It doesn’t matter. Don’t you know that if we keep walking east, we’ll go all the way around the world and come right back here to Sudan? That’s when we’ll find our families!’”(30-31).

19. “Children, women, and the elderly used to be off-limits during raids… Now 110 were killed in a village attacked precisely while its young men had gathered elsewhere” (“Sudanese Tribes”,¶6).

20. “Immediately, there was chaos. It was as if the people ceased to be people and instead became an enormous herd or panicked, stampeding two-legged creatures. Salva was caught up in the surge. His feet barely touched the ground as he was swept along by the crowd of thousands of people running and screaming. The rain, which was falling in torrents, added to the uproar” (74).

21. “In the camp, he had worn an old pair of shorts and an even older t-shirt. He had taken as good care of them as he could, but there were holes in the shirt, and the waistband of the shorts was stretched out and threadbare. The camp workers handed out clothing whenever donations came in, but there were never enough clothes for those who needed them. Now Salva’s arms were piled high with new clothes. Underwear, socks, sneakers. A pair of long pants. A T-shirt and a long-sleeved shirt to wear on top of it. And he was to wear all these clothes at the same time!” (93)