A Long Way Gone Ch. 6-7

Ishmael is traveling with a group of six boys which is "not to [their] advantage" (p. 37). People were afraid of boys their age because they thought that they were rebels. The boys could not walk through the villages because they were afraid that they would be hurt by the villagers. In chapter six, Ishmael and the other boys are caught and threatened by men from a nearby village.

I loved this part of the chapter because the boys were saved by there love of rap music. When the men search the boys pockets, they find rap cassettes in Ishmael's pockets. The chief of the village plays the music and realizes that these are just six innocent boys trying to survive the war.