Part 2: Long Way Gone sequel

I have been reading the book a Long Way gone since my last blogpost and it's turning out to be a really good book overall. The book has a very interesting and long full-filled journey since the start of the war that goes on in the story. It seems almost like a story even though it's a  real story, at times when the main character Ishmael is about to reach his family or a safe place it ends up being just another run-in with the rebels that were attacking them in the first place or just having to fight with people who don't trust people of their own kind. I noticed that this is a huge theme in itself. People wouldn't be so scared if there was more trust around and a lot more things also.

In my first body paragraph I'm going to talk about how there is a lot of distrust in the book. I've noticed that in the book ever since the war has started there has been a great amount of distrust that goes on throughout the book, and there's an obvious reason for that. The war has been the main reason for this distrust mainly for the fact that people have been so overprotective of themselves that they seem to regret that they were once good friends with the same people. Ever since the war started people became more protective of their things and only close family. They started to keep all the food that they had and all the items that are valuable safe to themselves. This leads to greed because greed is a result for being overprotective. People want to keep all the food to themselves and they forget that they were once a giving community that helped each other in need, but now it's all gone. All because of the seperation that the war causes in the story.

Secondly, trust has been the whole planning behind the war and outbreak. When people don't feel right with something, or they don't enjoy the way the government is controlling them, what do they do? People usually tend to act out as a result of discontent. This is exactly what rebels are doing I mean it's not good in the way they're trying to make people join their side by recruiting people with violence. They use violence and threaten people which is no way to treat people. The rebels obviously saw that they couldn't trust their own government so they decided to take matters in their own hands. It was their way of showing distrust to the government. Trust is obviously a big issue in the story.

In conclusion, trust is the underlying theme in the whole book, it's the central the theme that controls most of the parts of the book. Without this theme there wouldn't have been so many problems. I hope to see continuously how this theme evolves in the story.