Again this book just seems to put Ishmael through such hard times its hard to believe it actually happened. Stuff like what happened in chapter 11 always seems like it should only happen in fiction, coming close to the village where you family is staying, being held up to help out an old acquaintance, and then hearing the distant sounds of death and destruction in the village you know your family is in. It is just unreal. And then the boys all started to turn on each other out of anger that they hadn’t gotten there faster to at least have 10 minutes with their families even if it meant death for them as well as their families. And on top of all of this they are practically forced into joining the government’s army as child soldiers. That came as a shock to me because after all these chapters of saying how the rebels are so bad and cruel and kidnapped boys to fight for them, I never expected it would be the government that would recruit Ishmael and his friends to become child soldiers.
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