Chapter 11-12

I felt that chapter eleven and twelve were less vivid compared to past chapters. These two chapters were more depressing. The beginning starts some what neutral and depressing because the death of Saidu. They still continue to move along. The boys have high hopes of re-uniting with their families. A familiar man at a banana farm recognizes the boys and asks if they could volunteer to help carry banana's back to the village. On their way to the village they all hear gun shots and quickly hide. This is sad because if the boys assumed the gun shots were from the rebels, they would know there is no hope of surviving families. This passage put me at the edge of my seat, all I could do is foreshadow and predict what is going to happen next. In my suspense as I read on, the emotional atmosphere when the boys get to the village is overly upseting. The emotions of any reader were most likely up and down roller coaster ride. The boys notice that the rebels are attacking the village and when it's all over is the most depressing part. When they arrive to the village there is no survivers, not one. The rebels killed every last one. It's sad when the boys start looking for survivers and all they see is dead bodies and body parts all over the place. That passage was easily the most vivid of these chapters.