Children are not mature enough to be persecuted. Children are young, and we do not know what is in their mind sets. They can do crazy stuff. Ishmael craved marijuana, when he wanted it badly he would roll a sheet of paper and smoke it. Ishmael says in the book,” I craved cocaine and marijuana so badly that I would roll a plain sheet of paper and smoke it”.This quote is very important because that he did not understand marijuana. On the second quote he says that he would sleep in the mattresses outside. This shows that the marijuana acted up. Ishmael says “ One Night we sat outside on the mattresses, it began to rain. we sat on the rain wiping off our faces”. Furthermore, Ishmael controls his anger even if he is in rehab. Another Quote shows