Chapters 3, 4, and 5

After reading the next three chapters I absolutely love this book. It’s an awful story… one that shouldn’t even have to be told, but with each paragraph and each page I find it more compelling. It just gets harder and harder for me to be able to put the book down. Each chapter seems to get more graphic and more… gross I guess is the only word that you can use. Every time I see something happen I flinch away as if I was there or I feel like I am going to be sick, but I force myself to keep reading. I know that he survives but I want to learn how he does it, which is why I keep reading.
I found that chapter 1 and 2 were a lot more confusing than the next three. In those chapters he incorporated the dreams, which you couldn’t even tell that those weren’t reality. But even with the awful nightmares in those chapters, I found that chapter 3, 4, and 5 seemed to be even more intense than chapters 1 and 2. At the beginning of chapter 3 I had some hope that the six children would be able to get away before the rebels came but I was wrong. The family they were staying with forced them to stay at the house to take care of everything, so when the rebels did come they were fleeing with everyone else. And I honestly have to say that during that entire chapter I was holding my breath hoping that they would not get caught or shot down. People were being shot right next to them, but I find it amazing that all six of them made it out alive.
Towards the end of chapter 5 when they are caught by the rebels I find it amazing that while they are watching the old man being “tortured” in a sense that they can’t cry. Also when Junior wasn’t chosen the first round but Ishmael was, and then vice versa in the second round, I have no idea how they would be able to keep all their emotions inside of them. I don’t think no matter how hard I tried that I would even be able to do that. At the end of the chapter what pushed me over the edge was when the rebels were going tot take the non recruited group to be shot in front of the recruited group, that’s when I had to stop reading and take a breath. I can’t believe that there would be people in the world that could do this to children. That could make them watch their sibling shot to death in front of them. I just find that unbelievable.