Violence

Page 140 of Ishmael Beah's book, "We cannot allow a civilian to talk to us like that." They unleashed blows at him, and then one of the boys had stabbed him in the foot, and once he feel down they kicked him relentlessly and left him lying on the floor bleeding and unconscious. They shouted in excitement, and walked back to the veranda. After this Beah says to himself "I missed my squad and needed more violence" This paragraph leaves me in shock to think how young Beah has change from the beginning of the book. In the beginning he didn't understand why the war was happening and why innocent people were dying, now sixteen chapters into the book he is the one killing, and wishing for more violence. How could anyone not care about ones emotions and that everyone is human, but I guess all Beah could care and think about was just staying alive!