chapter 19 -21

I knew that he was going to end up in New York because everyone knows were and that it is the biggest city. I just didn't think it was going to be like really cold. I think they should have at least warned him about the weather and gotten him a jacket or something. I like the fact that things are actually happening for him and not against him. Like how he gets a new family and starts to think of his uncle as a father figure too him. It made me feel happy when it talks about how Ishmaels uncle was crying because he is happy to have Ishmael. But when he goes back to his hoometown i knew that the war was going to pull him right back in with how he talked about how he heard gunshots in the air, and how it brought back memories. Ishmael is strong and i think that he will be able to fight the urge and go back to New York and start a new life. Which he did.

ch- 17-18

In these chapters i think it was very cool. they were action chapters like in movies. The part about the walking for 3 days i couldn't do that. Then they had to fight that would be so hard to do. They were saying how they could just ignore bullet wounds, how it is a bullet wound it is supposed to hurt. Just stop you cant just forget about wounds like that. I would not be able to keep fight ing how these boys did they can just get shot a couple times and are strong enough to just "walk it off" they are like super warriors. 

ch.15-16

I think that in chapters 15 and 16 that they were really well written. It was not a gross chapter but it was kind of more enlightened. The fact on how he could possibly be leaving the army is a great thing to hear. He has to get out sometime he is here with us today, and we are seeing him speak so you know he has to get out of the army some how. The fight was pretty interesting, it just shows how close they are to each other. They can go on anything violent and they need drugs so they beat up people so they can have some violence in there life. Very well written chapter.

Choice Book Reading

I really don't care what the book is. I just want the book to be excting and interesting and that's all i ask.

Chapters 13-14

Wow, these last two chapters were crazy gross. I thought about the part with the river and the human parts and stuff would defiantly make me lose my lunch, like its good i didn't eat before reading that because it gave me a graphic picture, with much stomach flippage. And the whole thing with the RPG blowing the guy up was gross. When I read about his friend that was killed i tried to think about that would be like for me too be in his shoes, i just couldn't do it. I would have just given up, actually i wouldn't even have been there because i would have given up along time before that. When people say that they can do what these boks describe, they really don' know what they are talking about, because im pretty sure no one could watch one of their closest friends die and treat it like it was nothing nd move on because if they do that then the were truly not even your friend. No one ralizes how strong these kids are physically and even more, emotioinally.

Chapters 11-12

In chapters 11 and 12 i thought that it was very, very disturbing. The whole thing about the soldiers and how they were happy about how they killed everyone in the whole village this time no survivors i almost lost it. The fact that they were only doing that because they don't have a straight mind to think clearly is beside the point. When they said commander i thought wow if these guys are this ruthless think about the one who is leading them! As we kept talking about that conversation, i was just thinking about how they were feeling hearing this, in real life as Ishmael did. It would devastate me to hear about hundreds of people being slaughtered. And what was with the bananas, then that guy asking them to carry some for him, what is that i would have been carry your own bananas you want them so bad you carry them! all in all this was a pretty awkward feeling chapter.

chapter 10

I didn't really understand this chapter as much. There are many questions i have concerning the contents of this chapter. Like how did Saidui died, what happened. I just don't get it, like did he pass out and not come back, was he murdered by rebels, or did he die because of the bird he ate, like who would eat a bird that just drops out of the air. I think that he was the first to be killed by Ishmael but i don't want to make assumptions but i don't really know, and i hope that we can come to a consensus about it.

chapters 8-9

If i were stuck in a forest by my self like the boys were i would probably lose it, no actually i would defiantly lose it, or die. I would be exhausted and defiantly die from hunger, i would go mad trying to hunt for food even though i think that it would be a blast to have this as a challenge i still thin that i would get lonely and when i talk about the blast adventure, i mean the alone in a jungle except in my life there will be no rebels trying to kill me, at least i hope. I could never put up with this war, it would tear me to shreds i could never kill some one, or think about seeing someone do that action. The whole waves and the they can hurt me crap was just stupid like it is water i would go swimming after walking all that way i would be so tired and they were like burning the bottoms of their feet off because of the sand and that is just stupid if it hurts don't do it. And the fruit was defiantly a peach in chapter 8, because what else could it be?

chapters 6&7

in my opinion chapters 6 and 7 were different. I think that they were not dealing with death and also that they weren't around people being shot and always fearing that they coulfd be abducted. I think they were more relaxed chapters in the book that i have read so far, because all of the other chapters are dealing with how the are seeing death and distruction everywhere, and the story about how their village was burnt to the ground and everyone around them treats them as enemies because, they can either be one of the two enemy, or spy. Which i truly don't understand because why can't there be another option, maybe like refugee or how their village got burnt downh and they were seeking shelter from neighboring villages. The boys are not speaking much because they are kind of drifting apart and how they all think that they are going through something different than the other one but truly they're going through the same thing just in different forms and once they got to that understanding then things i think would have been very different.p