long way gone reading 1

I was deeply affected by this reading. After reading only a few pages we could already see the horrors of war.
The book starts out in January of 1993, when the main character is 12. He is young and pretty oblivious to the war. It does not affect him yet and the news portrays it like it is a long way off. But that is totally wrong. It is actually very close to him and his village that he lives in. I think that is kind of funny and at the same time kind of cool that they listen to American rap music. They seemed really surprised that a black person could speak English that fast. They travel to a town where they are going to perform in a talent show by doing a rap song and dance. This is when disaster strikes. They here that their village was attacked while they were gone, and that people were running everywhere. They can’t find there parents and they suspect that they didn’t make it. This was very shocking that they just kind of accepted it. Some of the injured people that they saw were horribly injured. People were bleeding immensely, babies were dead in there mothers arms, and people were holding onto dead kids as though they were still alive, telling them that they would get them to a hospital. I could not even imagine something like that happing here in the United States, its terrible that this happens daily throughout the world.