After reading chapter eight, I liked how Beah had flashbacks to his youth with his grandparents. It made me see him as more of a person, than a little boy lost and alone in the forest. When Beah writes about how he had the run-in with the wild hogs, I became nervous. This is because I thought he was setting it up to be rebels. Before Beah found the six other boys, I can’t imagine how he lived for an entire month without human contact. I couldn’t survive if that were me.
In chapter nine, Beah shows that even if war causes people to lose all trust and hope, there are still some people that can help you through. I think that it was extremely thoughtful and generous of the young man on the beach to let seven boys that could have potentially killed him live with him. I am yet again astonished that the rap music saved Ishmael’s life again. The rap music had saved his life twice before, but the third time with the chief is amazing. When sometime like that happens, you know that you are supposed to live. Like Ishmael Beah’s father said, “If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die”. I believe that goes for Ishmael’s life.
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I liked how he had flashbacks to his old life too. I thought that it was cool that we could look at what he used to be and compare that to what he is now. i also like how you talked about him when he is in the forest i bet he exaggerated the time he was in the forest because i to can't imagine living by yourself for a whole month.
Rap music is a life saver.
I know, that sound, of loud noises, scared me half to death because I thought the rebels would come and make him fight for the rebels but it turned out to be wild boors. I thought he lived in the forest for three weeks? I also enjoyed the flash back, that way we can see a side of him that we couldn’t see before, especially there is a war going on. I realize that the chief has to takes the boys’ clothes of to make sure they are not with the rebels, but do they have to do around everyone?!?
I also like the way he writes his flash backs to make him look more like a person. I also find it funny that he doesn't know what peach is and thinks it might be poisonous. The man at the beach is brave for what he did in helping the boys because his village would reject him.
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