Chapters 5-7- The last three chapters were heartbreaking it talked about the training the children go through and the way child soldiers are made. There are over a quarter of a million child combatants in wars around the world. The author, Romeo stated that the thing that struck him the most was that the place they were taken to was so beautiful with flowers mountains and a beautiful landscape, but the hardest part was accepting that this beautiful place was a place where children were abducted and trained to fight in a battle that wasn’t there’s. In the community that these children were forced to live in you most likely had a family member actually at least one in five kids were there, and for all those five at least one would die at birth. Then within years another one would die from either HIV/AIDS or a sickness that was never treated because the leaders didn’t care about treating the kids. Romeo states that the easiest way for these leaders to get the kids to participate was not using a bribe or anything that would make the kids happy, but was fear. A small child is not going to be able to say no to a gun or a man that could inflict a lot of pain on them. Unlike a traditional route of training soldiers that helps develop skills and experience the children are forced into trying things. The training is grueling and inhumane it was designed to separate the strong from the weak, using the weirdest ways. They would take the shortest time to assess the kids and not give them any back round on what they were doing, hitting and beating them while they do it. Chapter 7 is called “How to Unmake a Child Soldier” It is very sad to begin with the amount ok kids that die threw the long process is awful, considering no one has a any record of how many kids were abducted, how they died or if they even are dead. Parents and loved ones are left wondering how there kid is doing. Also by the time they get away or are set free they have all kind of diseases and are scared for life. No one can come back from a awful experience like that.
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