a long way gone number 11

I did not like the ending of this book. I thought it was strange how it chose to end with a story that he heard as a kid. I did not really understand he significance of it. I am also wandering were he got the money the money to go to America. He said he only had a 100dollers left and I no that would not be enough to go to America. It was also very sad when his uncle died of a fever.  Thought he was going to actually live. I was surprised when the government troops attacked the big city. It seems to me that the rest of the army would come back and retake it.     

a long way gone number 10

These chapters were pretty interesting but in a different way then the other ones. I had never really thought about what it would be like to visit another county that was so different then yours without having good education. I think it would be very freighting to see snow if you had never heard or seen it before. It would also be very strange feeling how cold it was when its often more then 100 degrees in Africa. I thought it was funny how he didn't know how to use the elevator and how he was scared of it. It would be pretty amazing to see all those big buildings In New York after you had only seen a few buildings bigger then huts.      

a long way gone number 9

I was surprised by these chapters. He took quite a leap fro beating up everyone in sight to being happy and making new friends. I did no expect him to find a girl he liked and for a while I thought that Esther liked him. I had also completely forgotten about his uncle so when he mentioned him I was surprised. I was kind of disgusting when he was talking about when he got shot especially when they were pulling the bullet out of his leg. I did no think he would recover so soon. I am also wondering what is going to happen because there is so much of the book left to read.    

what book i would like to read

I would not like to have a romance book and would like it to be a action book.  

a long way gone number 8

I found these chapters to be different compared to the others. I don’t know why they would just go and randomly choose people instead of taking them all back. It showed had bad the boys really were. They would beat up al the civilians and steal drugs. I would try to accept there help. It is amazing what they did to themselves with those drugs. I am surprised that they didn't kill them. I was surprised by the part were  the rebel boys said the army burned my village and killed my family especially since one of the army boys had just said that. It was very gruesome when they were talking about the part were they buried the two men alive.  

a long way gone number 7

These chapters were very sad. So many bad things happened but I think the worst was the fact that after he killed that person he began to like killing. But he didn't realize that the only reason that the only reason he didn't have nightmares all the time is because he took all those drugs. After the first night he didn't even seem to care that his friends had died. In these chapters you saw that the soldiers are really no better then the rebels. They even burn down there own villages. I am surprised that they don’t die just from all the drugs they take. It was very disgusting when they were executing the prisoners. It is terrible but I think that they began to think of war as a game.   

a long way gone number 6

These chapters were both very sad and very gruesome. I thought the worst part was when he got to the village wee his parents were and the old man told him his parents were there and then just when they were about to go down and see them the village got attacked. That would make me go completely insane. I just could not handle that and I do not blame him for attacking the old man for making them wait. it scared me at the start of chapter 12 when they said they were put under gunpoint. I thought that they were rebels capturing them. It was very gruesome when they were talking about the different ways they kill people. I could tell he had been completely desensitized at the end when he was talking about laughing at the rebels as he burned them.  

a long way gone number 5

This chapter was very long but I did not think much happened in it. I thought that the only major event was that saidu dies. I think he died from eating the crow that fell out of the sky. It was very sad though when they were telling the stories about what happened to their families. Especially the ones whose sisters got raped and then his whole family were taken away. I thought it was very strange how the dogs kept howling. It made me think that the rebels were going to attack while they were sleeping. I don’t see why he told that story about the spider either. I did not see what that had to do with the main story. I was also happy that there were no gory parts in this chapter.

a long way gone number 4

The first chapter was not that bad I thought. Though it would be impossible for me to be away from people for all that time. I would get so lonely and be terrified of all the strange animals around me. It would have been very nice to finally see someone after all that time. It would be very heartbreaking though to stumble upon all the villages filled with dead people. The next chapter was worse though. I would be enraged if I had been trying to fight for my life for all that time and then get to a village and have all the villagers attack me. It was truly awful how the village on the beach took their shoes away and made them walk on the sand for al that time in that heat. It was disgusting how there feet got torn apart by the sand. I don’t understand why they didn't just walk in the water though.

a long way gone number three

I thought that these two chapters were more about how he was faring and what he was doing with his life at the time. I don’t know how he could have the strength to walk all those miles every day eating nothing but unripe oranges. Then he got separated from the rest of his family and his friends. That would be terrible to be all alone always being afraid you will get killed. I also don’t understand how he manages to wander through the jungle without getting lost. It would be very heart breaking I think to have to find all those villages that were completely empty.      

a long way gone number two

These chapters were not as graphic as the last ones but the things they talked about were just as bad. Even though they escaped the rebels they still had to walk all the way through the woods starving. And when they got to the village they didn't have any money to buy food so they had to go all the way back and risk getting captured and when they got back no one would sell them food because they wanted to keep it for themselves. I thought that was terrible. Then when they were captured they thought they were all going to be killed. And then they shot that old man in the head with a blank round and made him think he was dying that was nothing but cruelty.  

A long way gone number one

I found these first chapters to be very gruesome and disgusting. Its terrible what war is like but the fact that children are fighting makes it even worse. I found the part when the two children groups killed each other and then just went and sat on the dead bodies and ate like it didn't even matter at all. I personally would probably throw up just from seeing al the blood. I would never be able to eat and talk with my friends.  I also found it to be very wrong that they would shoot at people running away from them for no apparent reason. Its as if they just want to kill them for fun. I don’t see how going and killing innocent civilians in little towns that no one cares about is going to overthrow the government.