Monday, October 6, 2008

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.  

4 comments:

Daniel said...

I agree with everything that you said. It is so disgusting that they sat on the dead bodies and ate the flesh. It's just wrong to eat another human, and especially to kill them. I hope the entire book isn't like these first chapters because of the inhuman actions.

Co said...

i also agree that Chapter 1 and 2 are quite disgusting that they would eat the flesh of another human. The saddest part for me was when the father was running around with his dead son and was talking to him as if he was still alive

George said...

I agree with what you said about the first two chapters being gruesome. I also can't see how children could fight in a war. I would also throw up from seeing all of that blood.

Mander said...

I completely agree with you. I thought it was really gross and there would be no way that I could sit on top od dead bodies that I just killed with my friends like it happened every day