A long way gone ch. 6-7

These chapters made me feel so sorry for Ishmael Beah.  He lost his brother and his closest friends in an instant because of the rebels.  I couldn't survive without my family or friends.  I would be in so much shock I wouldn't care anymore.  So far the rebels have done some pretty disgusting things, but burning someone at a stake is so wrong on so many levels.  I can't believe that no one trusts one another anymore.  People go from being caring to be scarred of teenaged boys.  The rebels have caused to much unneeded pain in society.  He in now, because he chose to leave, truly alone in the universe.  No one trusts him, he has lost everything, and he has no idea where to go.  I want to know what drives him to keep living if he had lost everything.  I would be devastated if I was still living through this.  Why does he choose to live through this when, in my opinion, he has very little to still live for.

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.

A long way gone ch. 1-2

I think that the book is going to be very disturbing and very graphic.  It's interesting to know what these people go through, but you don't need all of the blood detail.  It grosses me out.  The author gave way to much detail on how bloody it was especially with the vomiting up blood.  Also the sadness of it all.  Because they were running away, they got shot.  Only one person survived.  Also with them shooting the other team of young boys.  And after they shot them, they came and sat on them and ate their food.  That is so gross.  Can't the author just say there was blood and move on.  The grossest thing that I wish I hadn't read would have been the part where the intestines are falling out and the brains falling out.  I won't like the book because of the gore in it, but I might like because we need to know what these people have gone through to stop it from happening again.