the book is starting to get very interesting, the battle is heating up and many people are dying. the book is becoming very sad too, American soldiers have lost their lives and two Blackhwaks have gone down. we have found out many things about the soldiers like what they were before the war and what they want to do after it.

Black Hawk down

what to say i have read the book before but every time i read it gets better. the views on the book in my group are varied some think its more brutal than A Long Way Gone some dont, i think that it is a different view on the horrors of war and killing with out thinking about doing it. thats what our soldiers are trained to do i know first hand that veterans are different in some way from civies i feel that the reason that it is a different kind of brutal is that in LWG its a child doing the killing and there are some serious drugs involved, but in this book there are no drugs and its adults well sort of most of the soldiers that see battle these days are kids not juvinials but still boys. the book is good so far it is a little repetitive with the way the chapters start but over all i think that it is a good reminder of what our soldiers have to go through just so i can read a book, or write a blog let alone on a computer that i own.

Chapter 21

this was very heart breaking to read after being away from the war and being "normal" for so long the war finally got back to ishmeal. the soldiers started fighting in the city and it reminded me of the beginning of the book where it was all running and being afraid. the worst part was that ishmeal knew that if he didnt get out of the country that he would be killed or join the army again. and during all of this ishmeals uncle got very sick and died which was also very sad because it was just another person on the list of people that ishmeal had lost because of the war. so while all this was happening he decided he had to get out so he took a night bus out of the country and finally made it to new york once again.

Chapters 19-20

in these chapters beah was back to being a child. he experienced many things in the city. he and his uncle became very close as well as with his cousins. and then he went to new york which was a very new world to him. it was a great experience i chuckled to my self a few times while reading about how he was afraid of an elevator and how he tried to catch snow and how he thought it was weird that it got dark so early.