Ishmael War Quotes

Referring to the quote “the war had destroyed the enjoyment of the very experience of meeting people.” Ishmael says this after he is brushed off by a family he spotted in the water because they were scared he would harm them and suspected him of being a spy for the rebels. Ishmael then says “Even a twelve-year-old couldn’t be trusted anymore.” Circumstances such as the one told in the quote had happened several times throughout the book. As the war progressed, the concept of trust soon disappeared. Ishmael had encountered several more instances such as these, many villages he and his group had encountered automatically considered them hostile. Then either; ran them out or captured them as prisoners and brought them to their chief, threatened them with death and/or punishment. …show more content…
For example,the boys were just passing by a village and in the text it says “The villagers had heard a rumor that some young people, believed to be rebels, were heading their way. Upon hearing this, they had armed themselves and hid, waiting to defend their homes and protect their families.” They were then caught and interrogated and even though they did no harm and wasn't intending on causing any harm, they were punished by being run out of town, barefoot, in the blazing hot sun causing them to burn their feet and have blisters. Instances such as this, has happened a few other times with various outcome, only a few times did a village let them stay for a while and then sheltered and fed them. Trust runs very thin in this book, considering the circumstances it really is quite reasonable that it does. But without trust, a lot of people would be dead the second they step foot in a village where they are unknown in. Which comes to conclusion that, yes, trust and survival can indeed exist in the same