A long way gone Ch 13-14

These chapters have been the worse so far in this entire book. We see in the battle how Ishmael doesn’t shoot. He just sits there at first watching his friends die. He does not begin to kill until the commander makes him kill one person, then he goes crazy. He starts to feel the anger that is burning inside and kills everyone he sees in the forest. His need for revenge greatens and he only stops killing when he has to retreat. Seeing Ishmael as a killer is probably the most ironic part of this book. For the first 12 chapters he has hated the people that killed and has been running away from them this whole time. Also he begins to be completely desensitized. The drugs that they give him everyday make him feel invincible and powerful and his daily routine of killing is pounded into his head forever.