Rap saved them again?

In this last chapters Ishmael and his crew just kept walking and passed through a town where they got caught and were about to get drowned by a fisherman but when a teen from Mogwebo recognized Junior, Ishmael and the others they were given the chance to stay or leave so they walked through hours in the hot sand. Their feet bled and where burning.

That morning we thanked the men who had helped bury Saidu. "You will always know where he is laid," one of the men said. I nodded in agreement, but I know that the chances of coming back to the village were slim, as we had no control over our future. We know only how to survive.

People bury dead people as symbol of memory because then, they will know where the person was buried and can remember them forever. Also, by burying them, they will feel like they are close to that person, even though that person is already dead. The people are afraid of things they cannot understand, so they create things or traditions such as burials to explain to themselves things they can’t comprehend. Since they don’t know where the person truly is, with the burial they can feel like they know where the person they lost is.

Along the way, they see two dead bodies that make Ishmael want to vomit. One of the soldiers smiles and says, “You will get used to it. Everybody does.”

This quote shows how explicit the soldiers or rebels are and how they treated new recruits.In here, it is demonstrated how soldiers are not disugsted by anything and how they have to be tough in war. Also, it shows how the war environment usually is, filled with bloodshed, and with suffering, filled with sorrow and sadness. Finally, this quote really helps me understand how the new recruits are treated when they go to war.

My prediction this time is that they won't survive again. The luck they just had was really “Once in a lifetime” and that won’t happen again. This won’t happen again and Ishmael along with his brother and his friends will die because of any disease or maybe get killed by the revels but they can’t survive again.