The last section of the book is the best one. Finally, good things started to happen with him. At first, he got a family. His new family is very nice and they treat him very well. Then, he got the chance to go to New York City on a UN conference about children facing war all over the world. He attended to the conference in New York and afterwards, he came back to Sierra Leone. I can’t understand why he didn’t stay there. If I was him, I would never go back to Sierra Leone.
He came back and started living a normal life. He was even attending school. His life seemed to be very happy. Suddenly, the rebels and the army got together to make a new government. Once again the boy would have to face the war and run for his life. I would be very scared and disappointed if I was him. After all he had been through, the war reached him again. At this point of the book, it was like watching a flash-back of the previous chapters. The soldiers and rebels were on the streets, shooting, raping and stealing everyone.
When the boy decided to run away from the city to Guinea, the neighboring country, I was very apprehensive. Because he would face a lot of difficulties trying to leave the city. Every checkpoint he reached, soldiers would extort him and the other passengers that were with him. After a long journey, the boy reached Conakry, Guinea’s capital. I felt very bad for him not having a place to sleep but then he went to the Sierra Leone’s embassy with other refugees looking for shelter. The book ends.
I didn’t understand the final of the book. How did he go to New York again? How he got money? What about his “new” family?
The book ends but many questions stay unanswered. The final is very “weak”, but, overall, it is a very good book.
Great post Jose!
ReplyDeleteI really liked the last section too. I really liked the fact that the UN invited him to a conference in New York about children facing war. They definetly picked the right person, and I'm sure he had contributed a lot considering he was a child at war.
I also thought that the book ended poorly.
Well put Jose, I agree with you. I think that the book ended like that on purpose however, it makes you try and imagine what it was like. But can we? No. I think that it's almost like a hidden point he's making. He leaves the reader hanging, but he does it on purpose so they really reflect on everything they have read.
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