This chapter made me upset about what people would do to survive. This chapter showed the loss of innocence for the boys. After leaving their destroyed village, they roamed all around looking for safety. Most of the villages they came across were destroyed by the rebels. They had nothing to eat for the past couple of days and they were desperate for food. They came across a boy eating corn, and the boys’ survival instinct kicked in. They chased after the boy eating the corn and took it away from him. The thing that shocked me most about the chapter was that the boy’s mother actual gave Ishmael and his friend's corn. I guess she understood what has happened to them and felt bad for them. The thing I did not understand, they assaulted her son
