Friday, October 24, 2008

A Long Way Gone Ch. 13-14

These are probably the hardest chapters of the book. Ishmael is captured and made into a boy soldier. At first it is extremely hard for Ishmael, but he soon gets used to it. Ishmael starts taking drugs and begins to kill. He is forced to watch movies about war. He starts to look up to the killing characters in the movies. Ishmael is told to take out his anger for what happened to his family on others by killing them. Ishmael completely changes in these chapters. He starts to do everything that he was against before. He takes masive amounts of drugs to calm himself and eventually he cannot feel any pain at all. 
I do not think that Ishmael is a bad person. I think he is just confused and is making bad choices. But I can't really judge him.

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