"safe house"
1: what makes you feel safe? Is there an instances where you can relate to the narrators? Why or why not?
2: what are the things you had to do in order to take care of yourself,even though this might be considered selfish or different from how your family members would do things? Why is it important to yo?
1:From the street, it is one box among many. Beneath terracotta roof tiles baking uniformly in the sweltering noon the building/s grey concrete face stares out impassively in straight lines and angles. Its walls are high and wide, as good walls should be. A four-storey building with four units to a floor. At dusk, the square glass windows glitter like the compound eyes of insects, revealing little of what happens inside. There is not much else to see.
2: But those who need to come here know what to look for-the swinging gate, the twisting butterfly tree, the cyclone-wire fence. A curtained window glows with the yellow light of a lamp perpetually left on. Visitors count the steps up each flight of stairs. They do not stumble in the dark. They know which door will be opened to them, day or night. They will be fed, sometimes given money. Wounds will be treated, bandages changed. They carry nothing-no books, no bags, or papers. What they do bring is locked inside their heads, the safest of places. They arrive one at a time, or in couples, over a span of several hours. They are careful not to attract attention. They listen for the reassuring yelps of squabbling children before they raise their hands to knock.