A Long Way Gone Ch. 3-5

My response to chapter 3-5 in A Long Way Gone is that there wasn't a lot about the present life of Ishmael Beah or his nightmares. It was just about his past. His memories of the past that he tells the readers seem much more tragic and much more violent. The rebels are cruel to the people who they are trying to liberate from a corrupt government. There is a scene where a few rebels are mocking an old man. They say they are going to shoot him and then they shoot the ground very close to his head and make the old man think that he was shot and that he was dead. At the same village where the rebels harassed the old man, they started to recruit boys.  At first Ishmael and Khalilou were picked and Junior wasn't picked but then the rebels decided to re pick the boys because they were sissies so Ishmael and Khalilou were removed and only  junior was picked. Fortunately for them, the rebels heard gunshots and were distracted so everyone ran away. The boy met up again later and decide to go far away from Mattru Jong. These are just a few actions that the rebels have done and I think that they will just continue to get worse. I can tell that this is just the beginning of a very graphic nonfiction autobiography that I think will be a great book.