Weekly Blog #10

This week we started talking about the book “a long way gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier” by Ishmael Beah. This is a story about a young boy that was to runaway from his village because the military wants to captures every boy to turn them into a soldier. They also destroy the villages and separate families. This book reminds me of the Civil War of El Salvador in 1980. It has the same concept as the book in which a little boy named Chava is trying to survive and not be captured by the military to fight. In this time period every boy that once they turn 12 are to be recruited to be in the military. However, there is another group of fighters called “guerillas” who fights the military so that they do not destroy the families and villages. Things like this have happened all over the world and many people have suffered and lost family members. Wars have been fought everywhere in mostly every country and people just let it happen. However, some people survive this and tell their story so others may know. This helps the future because we know what our ancestors went through and how they succeed. War is a catastrophe that cannot be stopped all the times but with patience and a positive mind that everything will get better, life will change for the best.

Voces Inocentes. Dir. Luis Mandoki. Perf. Carlos Padilla. 2004. DVD.