Training Day

At the start of Chp. 10 Ishmael lulls you into a false blanket of security.  It starts of with him meeting with an adult from his village and then they begin to go to the village where their parents are supposedly waiting for them. When they get close however all that is taken away from him.  I felt really sorry for Ishmael because I know what it feels like to have something so close then ripped away from you.  Later on he and some other boys begin to blame this on Gasemu and they try to kill him.   This came as a shock to me because I didn't expect such a dramatic change in their character.  Once they are "captured" they seem to be safe in this new village, but I was a little suspicious of it from the beginning.  Sure enough they are slowly going to be recruited into this group.  When the head honcho said that they could leave and he wouldn't care that also seemed to be out of place to me in such time that they are in. It got even more curious when the man and the boy are dragged back from being killed by the "rebels" I believe that the soldiers killed them because why would the rebels kill the man and boy but not kill the soldiers when they collected the bodies.  With the way things are going I think that Ishmael isn't really helping anyone, but he himself is becoming a boy soldier.