Chapters 17-20

Chapters 13-16

Chapters 9-12

Chapters 5-8

Well then, If anyone has questions about the book put them in your blog. This is my question so far: Why are kids fighting the war and not the men? If anyone is able to answer that I would really like to know. Have fun blogging and MERRY CHRISTMAS!

A Long Way Gone Section 1: Chapters 1-4ish

Well, in this first section I was easily caught up in what was going on. At the start of the second chapter, the main character Ishmael Beah is killing people wit his AK-47: "I am pushing a rusty wheelbarrow in a town where the air smells of blood and burnt flesh" (18). Ishmael Beah along with his brother, Junior, and his friends, Talloi, Gibrilla, Kaloko, and Khalilou are on their way to Mattru Jong for a talent show where they are going to show off their rapping skillz, only to find out that rebels have been killing and destroying entire villages. So far I have no comprehension of how any human being could do these attrocities but I will soon find out. The children don't think that the civil war will go on for long, give or take a few months...but could this just be their re-assurance and hopefulness that nothing bad will arise? I find this quote particularlly disturbing: "One bullet has crushed his Adam's apple and sent the remains of it to the back of his throat. I lift the cloth from the body's face. I am looking at my own" (19). What will eventually happen to Ishmael? As of now I am posed on the theory that he will become a child soldier under the RUF and eventually hurt people that he loves...but that will come further into the book.


PS-This is Luke's post...I tried logging on but I couldn't post unless i was in the master blog thingy...so i logged into Nikki's because i remembered the password...so this is Luke...mmk.