The Day of Ahmed's Secret and Sami and the Time of the Troubles

The Day of Ahmed’s Secret is about a young man named Ahmed, who has big news to share with his family, but before doing so, he must complete all of his duties as a butagaz boy, doing things such as delivering cooking gas to customers.

Thought the story Ahmed is thinking about when it would be best for him to

share his secret. It was until the very end of the story that Ahmed finally did so. His big secret was that he could now write his own name. Thi

s was not what I was expecting at all, but it’s pretty cool that he was so excited about it.

Sami and the Time of the Troubles is a story about a boy named Sami. He is ten years old and lives in Beirut, Lebanon. His life is different from how most of us grew up, for his family and him spend most of there time in their uncle’s basement, due to the gunfire and bombing happening in the streets. I feel think book had a great message behind it, and I really enjoyed our class discussion about it. Sami is a lot like kids all of the world… he hates fighting, and violence.

```When we are older, we will have real guns,''' says Amir. Sami disagrees. ```The fighting will be over then. It cannot last forever.'''

When people get older it seems as if we are forced to take sides, but with children its different, they haven’t been around long enough to be forced into doing so, because of this they remain unbiased. Maybe if we still thought as if we were kids, there wouldn’t be as many problems with this world.