Chapter 1-2

I personally don't like reading, but this book has already caught my attention. The way he described it as such a beautiful, normal day but al that shooting and killing was going on. he made me realize that this could happen on any given day. He said he had just seen his family 2 days ago, and now he didn't even know if hey were alive. He said there wasn't any sign of the army but all the villages had been destroyed. The way he described everything that was going on around him made it all seem so surreal. A baby was shot, an entire family was killed, it's just crazy. It seems so unrealistic. He was talking about all that rap with his friends and now just 24 hours later he had seen several deaths. It just amazed me how it came out of nowhere. He himself wasn't expecting it. He said he never that it would affect him. He left without saying goodbye thinking that he would see his family again, now he doesn't even know if they are living. He was twelve years old... twelve, that's it! I can't even imagine what he is feeling. The line that hit me the most was when he said "being alive itself had become a burden." To be so young and feel there is no point in living it just doesn't seem fair.