A Long Way Gone Chap. 21

This chapter was probably the hardest to read in the book, not because of how disgusting it was, but because it was hard to imagine what I would do in his situation and that this had to happen just after he got his "normal" life back. Now the ARFC and RUF joined forces to overthrow the corrupt government. However, they are more corrupt than the government when they start killing anyone they please and decide to bust open bank vaults with RPG's for money. I couldn't believe that this could happen so soon, especially after having Mohamed join his family. Also, the knowledge that if his friends, from the army, found him he would either have to go back to the army and commit all those unspeakable crimes or die by their hands. That is a decision I would never hope I have to make. In the end at least he makes it away and is able to escape. I thought the ending was possibly not the best one for this book because it was abrupt and not on the point I was expecting. But from that last story it shows you the kind of person Ishmael was and is, someone who would take the pain of knowing something they did caused it, just so that others would not have to face the same pain he did.