Chapter 1
Ishmael (main character) ten years old describes the idea of war as entirely abstract to his young mind and insists that he and his fellow villagers didn't have the capacity to understand what the refugees coming through his village had experienced
Ishmael, Junior, Talloi, and Mohamed sing rap music- learned during visit to Mobimbi (fathers and other foreigners worked for an American company) music has defined how they dress and speak
January 1993- set off from their village of Mogbwemo on a trip to the town of Mattru Jong for a friend's talent show visit the town of Kabati (Ishmael and Junior's grandmother's village)
Visit Mattru Jong (meet up with their friends Gibrilla, Kaloko, Khalilou) stay at …show more content…
Applies for visit to United Nations- his story is compelling enough to get him in
Chapter 20 shocked by how the city is compared to what he thought it’d be realizes wars and conflict stole other childhoods bonds with a storyteller, Laura Simms- invites the children to share their stories
Chapter 21 begins the school year but kids fear that he'll snap and hurt them
May 25, 1997 Ishmael wakes to gunfire and fears the civil war civilian government overthrown by a collaboration involving the RUF and military
Ishmael and his cousins stay inside
Ishmael and Mohammed go into town and are swept up in a mob protest hide in a nearby ditch
Uncle Tommy gets sick and dies realizes he must escape or he’d turn into a soldier