chapters 3-5

These 3 chapters have been the most suspenseful so far. the suspense for me that kept building up was whether or not Ishmael was going to die. I don't think that i could walk with my heads over my head with a rebel aiming his gun at me, knowing that there is a chance that i might not make it out alive or see my family ever again. I was so glad when Ishmael got away right before he was about to be killed. It seems like he is getting very lucky because he is always getting away at the right moment and he is still alive after everything that has happened so far, even though we are only on the 6th chapter. I am just trying to think about what if i was put into Ishmael's situation. I don't know if i would be brave enough to go into a village where rebels are roaming and be able to have such courage. I couldn't watch other people being killed around me and not stop to help them but rather run away to save my own life. That would be the hardest part for me, because i couldn't watch someone sturggle like the boy who tried to get his bag and stand tehre looking at him and then run away knowing that he wouldn't live. This book for me is very hard to read not just because of the graphics but because people will do anything to save their own life even if that means leaving their families behind.

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.