Tuesday, October 7, 2008
response to first 2 chapters. (i might have accindently added some from the 3rd ch, though)
In first chapters, I have to admire how Beah and his friends could still finction, though they where shaken when they saw all that has happened. I think how can one see all that death and destruction and torture dialy, against people that have no reason to be killed or hurt. I am not very squimish when it comes to seeing blood since I have looked at books on how to do surgery, but what makes me squimish and sad is when it comes stuff like this, is that the person is still alive, they have distinct personalalties, future hopes, etc. Then you must wacth (or in this case read) them slowly gettong killed. Any way, ithat is why I have to admire what they did in the sitiuation that happened. At the same time, I thought it was stupid that the gaurds left, the could have ambushed the rebels if they hide throughout the town or hide in a treeline, or anything to fight back, but I guess that is what most of those corrupt guards do, save their skins when they where hired to help and protect the people.
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this is max. Your the first person who's blog I've read that isn't talking about how shocking the graphic descriptions are, so thank you for that. That being said I agree with you that the horrible part is that these are people who are suffering and it is people who are doing it to them
hey this is elle. i agree with your blog when you say that you have to read slowly about innocent people being killed because that's one thing that is hard for me to do in this book. nice blogg :)
I really liked what you said about blood, etc, being different when it involves living people with personalities intact. Good thoughts.
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