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!
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The only comment I have on the book thus far is that it is really sad. I'm wondering when he will become a soldier. I think that now that he is traveling in a group of seven boys again that this will bring attention to them and that this time he won't be able to escape the recruting. "Mant tines during our journey we were surrounded by muscular men with machetes who almost killed us before they realized that we were just children running away from the war" (57). Good book though.
Yes I agree with Swiss Miss, the book is really sad so far...I can tell how it has touched the hearts of so many people since its publication. Ishmael has come a long way so far and he isn't even a recruit of the RUF yet. I thought that the passage about the imam was very extrordinary: "The rebels caprured him and demanded to know what parts of the forest people were hiding in, but the imam refused to tell them . . . They set fire to his body" (44). This discipline is amazing and makes one believe that there still is hope left.
As far as why the men aren't doing the fighting I don't know either. As I come to think of it I have not seen or heard much of adult males in this bok so far. All the soldiers and murderers are children between the age of 10 and 20. I think hat sooner or later Ishmael is goin to encounter his brother Junior and I think that it might be a harsh meeting. So far I like this book it realy makes one think.
I agree with both Swiss Miss and with Guitarplayer1, this is a very sad book. I think that the young boys are fighting this war because they are least expected in the begining, they are easily convinced, and because it will confuse people. "Our innocence had been replaced by fearand we had become monsters"(55). I think Ishmael means that the war has turned them into animals, where they are killing eachother and trying to survive off of whatever they can find along the way.
One of the rebels says this, "You left because you are against our causeas freedom fighters. Right?"(33). This really made me confused. What are the rebels fighting for?
P.S. I am writting this at 2:25 am so I am sorry if some of this doesnt make sense. =)
Its hard to beileve all of the stuff that Ishmeal has seen and been through. Thinking about how a real live person has actualy lived through this, it doesn't seem possible. "I had seen heads cut off with machetes, smashed by cement bricks, rivers so full of blood that the water had ceased flowing" (49). The boy himself is extreamly young, and already faced more hardship than any of us will mostlikly live through. The part about him living in the jungle impressed me too. Many people would not survive in that position.
Sorry about another late comment, but everything should be fine now.... Had no idea my break would be THIS busy...
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I PUT THE BLOG UP TODAY BECAUSE I HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO. JUST SO EVERYONE KNOWS.
The only comment I have on the book thus far is that it is really sad. I'm wondering when he will become a soldier. I think that now that he is traveling in a group of seven boys again that this will bring attention to them and that this time he won't be able to escape the recruting. "Mant tines during our journey we were surrounded by muscular men with machetes who almost killed us before they realized that we were just children running away from the war" (57). Good book though.
Yes I agree with Swiss Miss, the book is really sad so far...I can tell how it has touched the hearts of so many people since its publication. Ishmael has come a long way so far and he isn't even a recruit of the RUF yet. I thought that the passage about the imam was very extrordinary: "The rebels caprured him and demanded to know what parts of the forest people were hiding in, but the imam refused to tell them . . . They set fire to his body" (44).
This discipline is amazing and makes one believe that there still is hope left.
As far as why the men aren't doing the fighting I don't know either. As I come to think of it I have not seen or heard much of adult males in this bok so far. All the soldiers and murderers are children between the age of 10 and 20. I think hat sooner or later Ishmael is goin to encounter his brother Junior and I think that it might be a harsh meeting. So far I like this book it realy makes one think.
I agree with both Swiss Miss and with Guitarplayer1, this is a very sad book. I think that the young boys are fighting this war because they are least expected in the begining, they are easily convinced, and because it will confuse people. "Our innocence had been replaced by fearand we had become monsters"(55). I think Ishmael means that the war has turned them into animals, where they are killing eachother and trying to survive off of whatever they can find along the way.
One of the rebels says this, "You left because you are against our causeas freedom fighters. Right?"(33).
This really made me confused. What are the rebels fighting for?
P.S. I am writting this at 2:25 am so I am sorry if some of this doesnt make sense. =)
Its hard to beileve all of the stuff that Ishmeal has seen and been through. Thinking about how a real live person has actualy lived through this, it doesn't seem possible. "I had seen heads cut off with machetes, smashed by cement bricks, rivers so full of blood that the water had ceased flowing" (49). The boy himself is extreamly young, and already faced more hardship than any of us will mostlikly live through. The part about him living in the jungle impressed me too. Many people would not survive in that position.
Sorry about another late comment, but everything should be fine now.... Had no idea my break would be THIS busy...
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