a long way gone ch. 3-5

Sad.  Depressing.  Cruel.  That's what I thought of these chapters.  It is so sad that the soldiers abandoned the town when the rebels came.  You are supposed to be fighting them, so you could end this war, but yet you run away and let the war continue.  If you are not going to fight then why did you join the "army."  It's sad that hey had to steal the food in order to survive.  The six of them against one 5 year old kid.  It is inhumane that the rebels laughed when they were interrogating the old man.  They should have shown some respect.  It was interesting when the kid played dead, but it is so sad that he actually had to fake his death in order to survive.  And then when the rebels came and tried to find recruits, they were going to make them kill the people from their own village.  Thanks to the person who fired the gun shots so that some could escape.  It was so sad when I thinking that the boy was going to kill his brother.