CHAPTER
6-11
From where I last left off
from chapter five Ishamel, Junior and Tallio were being chased by rebels, that
was trying to kill them and make them join their group. During their travels,
the boys meet a woman who tells them that Gabriella’s aunt is in a village
called Kamator, and they decide to seek shelter there. They arrive in time to
be part of the planting season and are given the job of clearing the land. They
farm with the villagers for three months before the rebels arrive and they are
forced to abandon the land without ever seeing the fruits of their labor.
During the attack, the group is separated, and Ishmael never sees Junior again.
From reading what I read, this chapter reveals a breakdown in trust among the
villagers that had been a strong bond before the war. Ishmael, Junior, and
their friends agree to stay together, but they realize that their grouping as
six young men frightens the villagers that they encounter. There were rumors of
bands of boys sent by the rebels to kill and terrorize the villages. Before the
war, their group would have been taken in by any village, fed, and cared for,
but due to the fear of attacks, Ishmael, Junior, and their friends are shunned.
As nights and nights went
by Ishamel struggles to sleep because the thought of him losing his brother
never left his mind. After multiple nights of starvations and hiding Ishamel finds
Kalako in a nearby village that he was passing through and stayed for a little
until it was time to embark on his own journey, because the silence and fear
within the village was unbearable for him. The treatment of the imam, a highly
religious and revered spiritual leader, shows the rebel's disregard for the
village structure and morality. They burn his body publicly as a threatening
symbol to the villagers and leave his remains to be eaten by dogs. This shows
that they respect no authority but their own and will go to any length to
terrorize the people. The lesson that I took from the behavior of the rebels was
that you either get down with what they are doing or be put down in gruesome way
so that they can earn their respect.
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