Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Thoughts about chapter 1 and 2
After reading the first two chapters, I got a sense of what kinds of events would be going on in the book. The part that I really didn’t like was when he described what people looked like after they had been killed. When I read that a baby was shot multiple times on his mother’s back and yet she didn’t die really got to me. When I read that bodies were falling out of the van that a man had driven made me feel sick. I just know what I would do if I saw bodies lying all over the ground, dead, and yet I couldn’t do anything about it. I don’t know what I would do if I knew that my parents were probably dead. After reading these two chapters I closed the book and looked down at it. These two chapters really shocked me and I didn’t know how to react. If I was put in this situation where I had to run for my life I don’t know if I could be brave enough. I don’t know where I would run to or if I would ever stop running. It’s just weird knowing that just two chapters have already made me want to put down the book, but these chapters are preparing me for what is still to come.
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2 comments:
first of all this is max so dont think this some random creepy guy like lily did and delete me. Second I think your blog was good but after reading the same thing after a while so I'm getting pretty tired, yes the horrible things that happened are shocking but they happen all over the world.
Elle, I like your response--it's very honest. You are free to skip the graphic descriptions and just focus on the historical context and Beah's emotions.
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