The theme of fear is continued on in this section of the book. Ishmael Beah and the six other boys travel from village to village through Sierra Leone. The fear of attack while they sleep the boys sleep in shifts.
The boys have been set back to a time where there wasn’t external forms of entertainment such as music and movies for purchase. To find comfort within themselves they tell their stories of how rebels had entered their villages and performed a ruthless desecration toward the town and its people.
Ishmael and his companions are captured and taken to Yele, which is where the Sierra Leone Military is occupying. After some time doing work for the village the boys are given a choice to become a soldier or face death from the rebels who had set up immediately outside of the village. As the boys go through their training their minds become manipulated as the soldiers give them a false sense of revenge the could get on the rebels. Ishmael goes to play games with the fellow soldiers and after are given drugs and are sent to go fight. He sees the two friends that he came with die in front of him becomes enraged. The manipulation of the soldiers and the drugs given to him have given him obvious changes to his already unstable mental state. He has already changed from not being able to look at the dismembered figures of the pillaged villages and now can see blood and death with ease.
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