Ch. 8-9 response

Ishmael's response to the ongoing violence is very understandabley, by keeping to himself. But if he actually did acknowledge it and face it in the long term it probabbly would be better. As for the ink eating part, we went over it in non-west that it was and is fairly common practice, so if you did not know, there you go. back on subject. As for survival he is relatively good at living in the wilderness, i espcially thought it was neat how he used the grass as a soap. When Ishmael met with his current group (Alhaji, Saidu, Kanei, Jumah, Musa, and Moriba.) again i thought that it was silly that they would chase people saying we are not rebels, and that only made them more scared. Probably made the people more scared since the soldiers usually got high, and that the boys could simply be high soldiers. at this moment numbers is probably the best answer, even though there would be draw backs like the people thinking they are rebels. As for the old man i agree completly that people at this point have lost trust in each other. Trust is very important for obvious reasons, and it is not a good thing not have in small communties. how ever i can see why people are somewhat skeptical about each other, but if this war is to end, the people would have to unify, and that requires, if you have not guessed already, trust.