Ishmael Beah and his friends they hadn’t heard any news about their families and didn’t know is their alive or die except wait and hope that they were well. In the next day many people of the town’s population was in hiding for a week. Later on, the rebels sent messengers but they didn’t come on the day they said they would, and as a result, people started again moving back into the town. Another ten days of hiding, and still the rebels hadn’t arrived. There was nothing to do but deduce that they weren’t coming. Moreover, the town came alive again. Schools reopened and a lot of people returned to their normal routines. Finally the rebels arrived, Ishmael Beah was cooking he heard a single gunshot that echoed through the town. All his friends
