Well, this is where we see the transformation from innocent child to remorseless killer. I guess you could say that the moment he snapped and turned into a killer was when he saw Josiah die. He says that he killed anything that moved from that time until the end of that battle. Just before that, he could barely bring himself to fire his gun to defend himself. I think that many, if not all of us, would probably have become the same thing that Ishmael became, if we went through his experiences. If your whole family died, if your friends died, if you saw so many people killed and mutilated for no apparent reason, I think that you would reach a snapping point. It didn't help that the drugs he took made him even more remorseless. I don't blame Ishmael one bit. I sympathize with him fully. I think that maybe after killing those people and reaching that snapping point, his guilt might have kicked in in a while, if it weren't for those drugs he took all the time.
It strikes me when Ishmael says that the military had become his family. His family used to be a loving, mostly happy family. He then becomes part of a "family" that kills people and recruits children and gives them drugs. In this "family," he is encouraged to kill people and is rewarded for it, like when he slit that person's throat to become promoted.
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wassup. haha every entry you write is very impressive and this entry is no different. i like how you said the transformation of a innocent child could not have been worded any better. Once again your entries are at the top of the classes entries. nice
I agree. It is completely natural of Ishmael to do what he did. The drugs had warped his mind and the army offered comfort while everyone else offered nothing but hatred and mistrust. What the army did to him was complete mind control.
I also think that it was natural what Ishmael did in this situation. He had the anger built up inside of him for so long and he had to let it out at some point in time. Seeing his friend die must have released it from him it a violent outbreak.
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