a long way gone ch. 6-7

Chapters 6 and 7 were very sad chapters. One positive thing about them was the fact that they weren’t as gory and bloody as the previous chapters. Nonetheless, they were still depressing, especially chapter 7. In chapter 6, I thought it was funny when the rap cassettes fell out of Beah’s pocket, and the guards released them after listening to the songs and deciding that the boys weren’t rebels. It was like the rap music saved their lives. One of the sad parts of chapter 6 was when Beah and his brother and friends are made to work in the fields. The way Beah describes how much pain his hands are in over those two weeks almost makes my hands hurt. The end of chapter 6, when Beah gets separated from his older brother, Junior, and his friends, was very sad. Chapter 7 was a mixture of sad and happy. In the beginning and through the middle were the sad parts when Beah keeps going back to the village to see if anyone is alive. He finds Kaloko, one of his brother’s friends, who keeps him company while he searches for the others. Finally, Beah gives up and starts walking. He doesn’t know where he is going, and he doesn’t have food or anything, but he just keeps walking until at the very end, he runs into a family at a river. It’s obvious that they don’t trust him, but they reluctantly point him in the right direction. Beah stays at a few unnamed villages along the way, but still suffers from loneliness.