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.