4.5.8: Roots, Nowhere Boy Chapters 10-12, Modifiers/Appositives

He creates resilience plans for NATO.

He works for Max's Scout troop.

He works in immigration for NATO.

He teaches at Max's school.

He did not think it mattered because it was just loose change and the family had so much.

He felt too guilty and decided to only take food.

It troubled him more, but he promised himself he would pay the family back.

He felt too guilty and decided to beg on the streets instead.

As the whispers grew louder, morphing into tense voices, he overheard his mother say, "We should have sent him to the American school."

Max sat bolt upright. Downstairs, a door rattled closed. The confusion of sleep melted away and he realized he wasn’t in his bed on the third floor, but on the first floor.

The cat stared at him with his green eyes, then bounded up the stairs.

Max didn’t believe in ghosts, but sometimes, tossing and turning in his bed, he’d hear the floorboards creaking, a light footstep.