The purpose of the flashback im chapter 1 of a long way gone, “three days earlier” when ishmael had seen his father and little brother was most likely to?

The first sene: alice was performing a magic trick with a wand and a small spell book that her grandfather had given her. while she was practicing she saw matt who was one of the other contestants, while she was practicing matt bumped in to her and made her say the spell wrong. all of a sudden a swoosh of sparkling purple wind picked them up and put them back on the floor. when they looked at each other alice saw herself and that’s when she realized that they had switched bodies.

The only reason based on my own answer or some of my instinct jack flack up and down and then twist all around before taking his medicine is because the label of his medicine says that you need to shake well before using or before taking it.