The theme, it seemed to me, over these two chapters was how no one could trust anyone anymore. The war had deprived people the very experience of getting to know people, as Beah so put it. Such young children could not even be talked to, let alone helped. People detained them to question him, and the family at the river did not even want to talk to him.
The simple truth is sort of thrusted at you when Beah says it was the last time he would ever see Junior. Beah lost the only family he might have left in the world; he has no one left anymore. Beah is officially on his own. The war has taken so much away from him already, and it is sad to know that as the story goes on, he is bound to lose even more.
One of the parts that I impacted me was when Beah leaves from where Kaloko was. Beah started crying, "as if I was being wrapped in a blanket of sorrow." I think some of the bottled-up emotions started to come out. I guess you could say this was a step backward from the remorseless killer that Beah becomes because his emotions came through.
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