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At The Storm

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At the center of the storm

If I were to change anything about the story, would be about the Cultural Revolution and Yang. Yang and I have a lot in command. I grow up doing the war. Most of the things Yang been through in the story I could relate to. Doing the war in my country was almost like the story I read about “At the Center of The Storm”. When the Red Guards kill Yang cat, it was very sad to read through it at some point. When I was in Liberia doing the war, I experience a lot worse then what I read in the story. At least Yang was in school at some point. What she went through by seeing her teacher death was a little hard for me. I went through the something when …show more content…

Due to the fact that our security system was so complicated, they started firing a warning shot in the air. In an attempt to enter in our house. For some reason, they did their homework before their unforgivable crime. They knew my brother was sick and they took advantage the situation. I remember one of them saying in a very large voice” if you don’t open the f***** door we will kill the sick boy first”. When my mother knew my older brother which was recently discharged from surgery and unable to defend himself, she complied immediately by gaveling the password to the rubbers. The moment they got the password all I could hear was a gunshot all over the place. They were firing AK47 and some guns I did not here about in my game. Their boss had a sticky bomb in his hand. I remember the sticky bomb from my game. It was one of my favorite weapon to kill my enemy in the game. I was not too afraid of the AK47 except for the sticky bomb. Whenever I used the sticky bomb in my game everybody die. At that point, I realize that we were in danger. As young as I was I started to say to myself how they could know about my brother situation. Out of the sudden one of them that I actually remember in the neighborhood order my mother and I to a small room. He knew she was the price they came for. I could only see the smile on his face when he was radioing his boss. His boss said to him in France, “no …show more content…

The gunman got so angry to the extent he brought my sick brother to join us. Then he ask in a very large voice, “gave the money or else you will only have one person to call a son for the rest of your life. Out of nowhere I hear my big brother saying to my mother gave them the money mother so they could leave us alone. She replied by saying to him I do not have any money here my love just come down it is all an intimidation. In my opinion, he was not joking despite the direct order from his boss. He then point his gun at our cat. Gave me the money or your cat is dead. There was no respond for neither one of us. He then fallow on his threat by shooting my cat in the head. It was my first time seeing anything being kill before. It was hard for me as a little boy. My mother started crying instantly, the rubber boss ran down the hall to see what was going on. A dead cat, and a caring woman. He told his subordinate “what the f**** did you do, this time, I thought I was care on the radio do not shoot”. He apologized for his mistake. Their leader asks my mother if she was ok, in French then at my surprise she reply. I said to myself when or how she learned how to speak French. I thought I was the only one in the family that could understand the language. So that why she told my brother it ok it is all an intimidation. She also over hear the radio conversation with the armed robbers his

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