Tinuke's Creative Response

Tinuke Awogbamila 10E
I decided to write a letter from Achak’s sister Ambithria, because I thought that the people who read what is the what should at least know what happen to one of Ackak’s siblings . I chose his sister because at the beginning of the book , Achak mentioned how much he liked her and like to lean on her.

Dear, Achak
I am so happy to known that you are alive . I miss you, mom , dad ,and the rest of our family . As you know I was by the river, when we were attacked by the murahaleen. I along with the rest of the girls at the river were immediately captured. I was so scared Achak. Scared for you, mom, scared for everybody in our village. I was tied and thrown to the back of a horse. I was confused ,when they did this . I thought that they would just killed me ,but they did not. Everybody was running in every direction. All the women and children were screaming. So was the murahaleen. I must have blanked out ,because when I opened my eyes it was almost night fall. A lot of other girls were tried on horses like I was. I saw Amath and her sisters. I also saw the twins at one points. I felt horrible. I was on my stomach and it was very uncomfortable. A lot of the girls were crying. I was not , I was in too much pain to cry. The Arab men who’s horse I was on was talking to another Arab man , about how much I was worth! At that point I realized that I was going to be sold in to slavery. That ‘s why they did not kill me , they wanted to make money off of me Achak. I had heard rumors that the Arabs enslaved the Dinkas, but I did not believe it . At that point ,thinking you and everybody else was dead ,I wished that I was dead too. I rather die than be enslaved by Arabs! When, it had become completely night ,the men decided to take a brake. They took us of the horses and made us lay on our stomachs. The Arabs quickly fell asleep. Either killing innocent people must be very tiring or they were not worrying about us running away. As they slept , I became very angry . Why were they doing this to us ? We did nothing to them .I begun to wiggle ,I wiggled until the rope that tied my hand became loose. The man that tied me did not do a very good job. When I was free, I did not move at first . I looked around to make sure that none of the Arabs saw me .When I was sure I got up and woke up Amath. She was about six girls down from me .I untied her . When I did this the girl next to Amath started screaming, “untie me too, Untie me too.” One of the man woke up and started to shoot .Me and Amath ran .We ran until the gun shots stopped. Amazingly nether of us were hit. I was so mad at the girl who was screaming ,she ruined the chance we had to free the other girls .Like we were not going to untie her, she is so stupid! She mad me so Mad! Amath and I walked for days . We walked until we reached a village .People were still at this village . The murahaleen did not come there yet .The villagers gave us food and we told them that the murahaleen were coming .They listen and immediately they rounded up the women and children . They said that we were going to kakuma, Kenya .They said that we would be safe there .We walked for many day and night .We arrived to one of the many refugee camps in kakuma. We were safe ,me Amath and the villagers. There I was and here I am still. I heard that you were alive through a man named Dut. He traveled from refugee camps to refugee camps .He said that you were very much alive .I gave this letter to him and if you are reading this I guess he must have delivered it. I miss you Achak.I miss you and very body very much. Even though me and Amath are safe at this camp, we miss Marial Bai . The news that you are alive has given me strength and hope , for maybe we may see each other again .
Love ,your big sister Ambithria .
P.S. Amath Misses you too.

From creating this letter , I learned that the war between the Arabs and Dinkas was more horrific than I could ever imagine. May God help the people who were effected by the war.
Tinuke A