The Trasformation of Beahs Friends

In this blog I wanted to talk about Beahs friends. In this response I want to talk about the two lines that I believe Beah transformed to not only being alone sometimes but also wanting to be alone to realizing the best thing to do is to stick with his friends or the people that became his friends during these harsh times. The first line is “I would sometimes go for walks by myself in the late evening. The sight of women preparing dinner always reminded me of the times I used to watch my mother cook”. To me this is a happy moment in his childhood. To me his childhood is over because he was forced into the middle of this war that he was also forced to understand it also. He still is very young in this part of the story though. He is recalling this happy moment in his childhood in his time of being alone so to me he seems happy thinking about happy moments. The second line is “being in a group of six boys was not to our advantage. But we needed to stay together because we had a better chance of escaping the day-to-day troubles that we faced”. In this line I think Beah realizes that sticking together was not to their advantage as people but it was the best thing to do as a group. In time of a war like this people do not know what a group of boys this age are going to do. They were feared by some so some people left them alone. Beah realized that the best thing to do was to stick in a group because there is strength in numbers.

Hunger

So far in the story they were searching for food day after day. they had to sneak back to Mattru Jong and get money to buy food. Not only were they going back with little food in there stomachs but they had to sneak past the rebel guards patrolling the area.
"We got hungrier day after day, to the point our that our stomachs were hurting and our visions blurred at times"I belive that it explains how hard it was to walk for miles, let alone run and hide from the guards, better than the other lines. I chose this line because i felt that it best described how hungry they were i have gone to the point where it was a little painful for my stomach, but getting to the point were my body dident have the nutrients to see clearly I cannot imagine.