During the war Beah is beginning to change mentally. He joins the army to help protect the village. When he joins the army he into a killing machine. He kills every rebel he can. This is a different culture that Beah has never experienced. Beah even cut one of the rebels throat who was a prisoner, and didn't care at all.
Beah forgets about the Innocent twelve year old he use to be. He has a "loss of culture." I say this because he is not acting like he use to when he lived with his family. He has to make this change for survivor. If he had stayed, that same twelve year old from his home village would have been dead. Beah had to become a man at an early age. He knew how to use a gun. He would smoke marijuana and take cocaine. He became a young soldiers.
When I think of Beah being forced to change his culture and move to a place he doesn't want to be, I think about foster kids. They have homes with someone and are taking away and put in group homes with other kids. They are there with people that don't really like them. They feel like they are in prison, but it's nothing they can do to get out until there eighteen.
Monday, March 16, 2009
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
The Transformation Of Beah's Escape
In order to get to the escape route, we had to cross a wet and muddy swamp that was adjacent to a tiny hill. In the swamp we ran past people who were stuck in the mud, past handicapped people who couldn't be helped, for anyone who stopped to do so was risking his own life.
This was the first time that Beah, his friends, Talloi, Kaloko, Gibrilla, Khalilou and his brother Junior encountered trouble and had to escape. They were trying to escape the Mattru Jong. As they went throught the swamp they would see people that were stuck in the mud. They would encounter handicapped people that were helpless. All they could do was keep moving or help the people and be killed by the rebels.
At the river they made us kneel and put our hands behind our heads. Suddenly loud gunshots not far away from the villiage were heard.
In this event Beah barely escapes death. Beah, Talloi, Kaloko, Gibrilla, Khalilou and Junior went back to Mattru Jong. The rebels captured all of them. The rebels made each one of them line up so they could look each one in a eye to see who was scared. They made two separate lines. The rebels wanted to recruit the boys in one of the lines. The other line would be executed by the new recruits. Beah's brother Junior was one of the recruits who had to kill the other line which included beah. At the river they had to get on there knees and put there hands behind there head. As they were doing this gunshots went off and everyone scattered.
The sad thing about all that hard labor was that, in the end, it all went to ruin, because the rebels did eventually come and everyone ran away, leaving their farms to be covered by weeds and devoured by animals.
Beah and his friends went to the village on Kamator. In this villiage they were finally content. They had food to eat and things to do. They learned how to farm and cut down trees. They would go swimming everyday on there breaks. Everything was perfect again intil finally the rebels came again. They had to leave everything behind. Beah separated from his friends and his brother Junior who he would never see again.
This was the first time that Beah, his friends, Talloi, Kaloko, Gibrilla, Khalilou and his brother Junior encountered trouble and had to escape. They were trying to escape the Mattru Jong. As they went throught the swamp they would see people that were stuck in the mud. They would encounter handicapped people that were helpless. All they could do was keep moving or help the people and be killed by the rebels.
At the river they made us kneel and put our hands behind our heads. Suddenly loud gunshots not far away from the villiage were heard.
In this event Beah barely escapes death. Beah, Talloi, Kaloko, Gibrilla, Khalilou and Junior went back to Mattru Jong. The rebels captured all of them. The rebels made each one of them line up so they could look each one in a eye to see who was scared. They made two separate lines. The rebels wanted to recruit the boys in one of the lines. The other line would be executed by the new recruits. Beah's brother Junior was one of the recruits who had to kill the other line which included beah. At the river they had to get on there knees and put there hands behind there head. As they were doing this gunshots went off and everyone scattered.
The sad thing about all that hard labor was that, in the end, it all went to ruin, because the rebels did eventually come and everyone ran away, leaving their farms to be covered by weeds and devoured by animals.
Beah and his friends went to the village on Kamator. In this villiage they were finally content. They had food to eat and things to do. They learned how to farm and cut down trees. They would go swimming everyday on there breaks. Everything was perfect again intil finally the rebels came again. They had to leave everything behind. Beah separated from his friends and his brother Junior who he would never see again.
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