The Loss of a Friend

Chapter 10 was a very enlightening chapter.  It helped to shed some light onto the backgrounds of the children who had been traveling together.  Their stories told us of how their journey had started or when the rebels attacked their villages.  Saidu's story was a horrifying one.  He had to sit up in the attic and listen to the sounds of his sisters being raped and that disgusted me.  I could never imagine such a horrible thing to happen to me and I felt sad that such a young person had to listen to that.  Such a thing should never happen to anyone.  Then sadly towards the end of the chapter Saidu says that he dies each time he escapes death.  He spoke some powerful words and in the end he did die.  He died with tears streaks still staining his face which says to me that he died a sad and lonely person and he couldn't live with the grief and it killed him.  I didn't, however, understand the fact of the dogs crying.  It confused me I thought that they cried because they sensed the rebels at first, but the rebels never came.