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Ishmael Reflection

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Ishmael Introduces the readers to what effect hunger has on behavior and human physiology in general. He also expresses that war and torment lost its holds on humanity that youth (the rebels) talk to elderly anyhow at a gun point. How the youth lost the home training and culture that requires respecting the elders and everyone in the community. The rebels forcefully subject young boys to torture, threat, and horrible sight of mutilation and brutal killings as initiation before they are recruited. Holtz (2017) expresses how boy solders are involuntarily recruited into the military by being kidnapped from their villages and forced to commit atrocities upon threat by their own deaths (p. 152). The recruitment is done out of no will of the recruited. All the sufferings brought about the break in connections amongst peers, unboundedness, and lack of confidence to the youth. Bears fears the separation when he was selected as the new recruit and his brother was not. These disillusioned youth who have no idea what could happen the next minutes began roaming the bush without any idea where they are going, what will become their faith, and how to get to a safe place.

Ishmael portrayed where you lay your treasure is where your mind will always be. The boys keeps going back to Mattru Jong despite the danger surrounding the village of being captured or killed by the rebels because, they left money, goods and food that could help their survival. At Kamator, after series trial and rigorous punishments suffered by the boys from the village vigilante and the community, they were finally accepted knowing that they are just boys. When they list expected, the rebel attacked. The attacked finally led to Ishmael separation from his blood brother. He embarks on his endless journey once again.

Question #1
Ishmael Bear found himself to be in the group of six boys which was not to their advantage because of war experience people have witnessed. Youth are ordered by rebels to massacre their family members and killing civilians. All these subjects them to cause chaos amongst the villagers whenever they spot boys of their age in numbers. This is the indication of fears and the consequences of civil war or bad experience in the past. In

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