As i continue to read this book I feel myself more and more connected as i follow Ishmael and his companions through the long and dangerous road toward safety and redemption. As I continue to read i see myself getting nervous with every run in with the rebels and praying that Ishmael is not captured and forced to become a boy soldier as once before. But that point has not come yet and the anticipation is killing me.
They are still on the run as i have said before but now they know where it is that they are going to. They are on their way to the small village of Yele east of where they are now. As they continue they are now at what appears to be a small abandoned village with no name. They spend the night there and awake the next morning to a dog eating what is left of the small amount of food they have carried with them. After the dog carried away what was left of the mangled food the boys began to fight amongst each other in the anger they were feeling. But one of the boys eventually calms them down with another one of his funny and informative fables. This time it is the tale of why spiders have such long legs. It has a good punch line and a pretty good plot. Just goes to show how much different life is without television or other modern distractions.
It is funny how even after the amount of time i can put in a book it still surprises me with every page. I still think i know what is going next and the next thing i know there is a new twist or a new character comes into play. The one main character i can really count on is Ishmael. The first group he was with scattered and separated among the bush as i had said before until he finally came into human contact with anyone.
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