The boys are finally in training for war and it is looking like this could get ugly. I don't think they are going to get away from the war this time...They have begun training and are drilling every single day very hard and trying to get ready for war and the fighting that is coming up. They are drilling and while they drill they think about how badly they want to kill the rebels because of the lieutenant's lectures, which are very powerful, but that's an understatement. The army did not differentiate between age within the army which was a scary thought at the time. they also did a multitude of drugs after drilling and such. They took a white capsule for which they did not know the name of...they also took some kind of a drug they called 'Brown Brown' which consists of cocaine and black powder from the guns. Reading this was difficult for me to picture little boys doing hard drugs and sitting around smoking marijuana and other powerful drugs. They apparently took the edge off but made them very angry and wanted to get in the fight right then and there. The drugs gave them a sense of illusion like they weren't actually in the war this was very hard as i had said before to read. One of the boys was actually too small to even carry his own gun. Just to get a sense for that this means these boys were still very small much smaller than I or any of my friends.
The book is really heating up...the climax is near and i can feel it the boys are now soldiers and are just a shadow or a ghost of what they really used to be. Its scary if i were to see all of these boys doing drugs and all that was on their mind was killing. It sickens me and makes me nauseous to really think about just all of these things that really happened just happened not to long ago...
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