15: Chapter fifteen finally made me believe that some good can come out of this book. When the INICEF people came, it was a huge sigh of relief for me, especially why Ishmael was picked to go with them.
Although I was happy that Ishmael and other boys got to go to the rehabilitation camp, it saddened me to know that all they still wanted to do was kill. It’s sad to know that all they thought about was killing and drugs. They had no idea why they were brought to the camp and still killed.
16: What really stuck out to me in chapter sixteen was when they went into the city of Freetown. It amazed me how when they saw little things like tall buildings or cars got their minds off of killing and war.
What I liked about this chapter were the flashbacks. Although they were again, gruesome, I liked them. The first flashback showed how much the war movies had an effect on the boys. Like Alhaji being like Rambo and slitting the throats of the soldiers.
Near the end of this chapter, it was sad to see the affects of the war on the boys. For example, Beah wrote about himself, “I’d wake up sweating and throwing punches In the air. I would run outside to the middle of the soccer filed and rock back and forth, my arms wrapped around my legs. I would try desperately to think about my childhood, but I couldn’t. The war memories had formed a barrier that I had to break in order to think about any moment in my life before the war.” (pg. 149)
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