Chapters 15 through 16

Chapters 15 through 16 are full of happiness and how the boys end up being reluctant. The chapters start to get better when UNICEF comes and helps the young soldiers escape fighting the war. To the young soldiers including Ishmael this wasn’t a pleasant thought of being taken out. Its sad to see that the boys are so brainwashed and sucked into this war that they believe its what they want to do all of their lives and feel its almost as if it were there family. It seems as if Ishmael had forgotten about his old lifestyle and memories of the past. Its like he didn’t even have a family of friends or a normal boys average life, it’s as if he had been born into it and he wasn’t going to leave it. This was all from the brain washing after years of his war life-style; it was the drugs, blood, and hate which overtime transformed Ishmael into this monster. I am extremely happy that UNICEF stepped in to help rescue the boys. This gave me hope for the future of Ishmael’s life and he could finally start to become the boy he once was. UNICEF kept the boys in a camp, and gave them food and necessary supplies. It starts to get graphic once a conflict between the boy’s outbreaks into a fight, some boys have weapons and it’s obvious the boys still have the war attitude and personality present in their selves. After the fight UNICEF puts the boys into separate areas in facilities to keep fights and other conflict from starting. I am glad that the boys are in different facilities and soon there could be positive change among them and they could start to be the people they were before.