Children's emotions are intense and ever-shifting, so our response – our makeshift attempts to explain the bewildering world to our kids, and vice versa – have to be just as fast and flexible.
Mr. Oberzan's sweetly vacant persona and his doofusy earnestness are often very funny, as are his makeshift attempts to evoke the book's violent battles with just a few wild kicks and pinwheeling arm movements.
Photographer Daniel Etter caught Laith's tears of relief as he reached dry land with his son and daughter in his arms, before the family stayed in a makeshift tent and attempted to journey on to the Greek mainland.
These structures were concrete walls on one side, aluminum fences on the other, and makeshift roofs above attempting to keep out the sun on hot days and the rain on rainy days.
After some unsuccessful attempts at makeshift surgery, Pongomoke turned to what he knew for help: the bush.
With the operating rooms destroyed, surviving staff members turned an office desk into a makeshift operating table and attempted to treat a doctor whose leg had been blown off.
After makeshift defender Frank Stapleton blocks an attempted pass by Ronnie Whelan on the edge of the box, the hero of last year bends a curling effort round his international team mate and past a sprawling Gary Bailey, to surely win the cup for Liverpool.
Their sister Helen, 13, teaches the younger ones and their friends the alphabet in a makeshift classroom – a valiant, hopeless, heartbreaking attempt to bring order out of the chaos that surrounds them.
When we first met, he had engaged me in a makeshift game in which he would attempt, using his limited English, to tell me about his favorite movie stars (he couldn't quite remember their names) by describing the plots of the movies they starred in: "There is a man, and he is in an airport, and he can't leave".
Migrant support workers claim that, over the last few days, some 300 refugees have left the makeshift camps in around Calais to attempt a crossing.
