a long way gone ch. 11-12

It is so sad that Saidu had to die.  The impact his death has had on the boys is so sad.  I had feeling that would never reach their families because that just seemed to happy to happen in this book.  I would feel so abandoned if I would like them when it rained.  I would feel so separated and alone from the rest of the world.  I found amazing that yet another person had trusted them.  I shouldn't be amazed, but I am.  I found amazing when he said that his family was still alive and waiting for him.  The fact that all of his family was still all together after what has happened surprised me.  When the rebels came and attacked the village it broke my heart because I knew what was going to happen.  Sure enough the boys never got to see their families alive.  The detail that Ishmael tells us about what he saw is gross, cruel, and disgusting.  I couldn't see how anyone could do that to someone else.  The detail with the burnt bodies is disgusting.  No one should have to see that ever.  The fact that the rebels lined up people then opened fire on them made so angry and made me want to cry.  The agony that Ishmael felt when he didn't see the bodies made me cry.  The details that he puts in the story are so sad.  How could the rebels laugh at what they just did?  I would have been so scared to know that one noise and we would be fired upon.  Sure enough one of the boys moved and they had to run for it.  It broke my heart to know that the person who had helped them died.

When the soldiers first surrounded the boys, I almost cried because I thought the men were rebels and going to shoot them.  It turned out to be the gov. army which lead them to Yele.  They showed them very gruesome men and said get used to it.  They are just kids.  Don't show these men to them.  The rebels surrounded the village and demanded ammunition and supplies.  Instead of giving the rebels these things, they more or less made every available man learn how to fire an AK47 to help defend Yele.  It is so sad when you hear the commander say imagine the people who killed your family, show no mercy, stab them again and again, and just make the kids hate the rebels so much.  I was so sad and so depressed after reading these chapters.