Rehab

I thought that it was quite a turn of events when the UNICEF people turned up out of nowhere.  They took me somewhat by surprise.  Especially when they weren't shot on site.  Instead they were able to just walk up to the commander and talk to him without any violence.  Not to mention they must have been very powerful speakers to be able to convince him to give up some of his best soldiers without so much as a penny.  Beah's reaction was a sign at how intense his brainwashing was. He was sad that he had to leave and I suppose that is reasonable since they had become his family in a since.  But I thought that perhaps he might be a little bit excited to be able to be free.  Later on when he is at the UNICEF base when they stabbed that man in the foot and later on he said it wasn't their fault I was surprised that that guy had such resilience.  Another sign of how the war and drugs had effected the children was when they were craving violence to the point to were they would just punch rock, glass, and anything near them they could hurt or damage.  I was startled and disturbed at how people could turn children into such monsters.