ch 2 ?

•I have not experienced anything like what Ishmael experienced, and I also haven’t had a traumatizing experience.•Some examples of war that I read about in this chapter are boys carrying AK-47 on their backs, the dead bodies everywhere, and the boy shooting at the other group and vise-versa.•Ishmael had been in New York for a month. I don’t think he will be okay after his experience in Sierra Leon.•Some boys in the U.S. have calm laid back life and they take education for granted. Some boys in Sierra Leon don’t take education for granted and they also don’t have the accessories to life that we have. All of the boys go through trial (some more than others) and like some sort of rap music.•I think the memories are bad memories. War memories are always bad because they involve death.•Part Two-–In the first two paragraphs Ishmael is in a quiet town. There were dead bodies everywhere. The only life that was sensed was his own. There was blood everywhere. He was in a place where the war hit hard.–The last two paragraphs take place in New York, in Ishmael’s home. It is night time and Ishmael keeps having flashbacks of his past. He refers to it as dream world. His dreams take place in his past at a battle with other boys on a soccer field. They also sit and eat on dead bodies.–He says he lives in three worlds which are his dreams, his experiences of his new life, which trigger memories from the past. He means in his eyes he is trapped by the story of his past and can’t avoid it.