LWG ch. 1-2

Chapter one was a big shocker to me.  Granted, this is the second time I have read the book, but it still got to me.  I mean, for heavens sakes it's the first chapter of the book and it's already chocked full of detail, some detail that I don't really want to read about.  This book obviously has a message though if it starts out like this on the 15th page.  I couldn't believe the images that Ishmael and the others saw in the one town.  They're so young and they had to see that happen.  They have such a fun childhood for not having much and they all seem so funny and enjoyable and then to see something like that, it just rains on their parade.  It made me very sad and horrored at the site or description of what he wrote.  It sounded so fake, like no that could never happen, but a matter of fact it actually did and it scares me and haunts me in a way.

Chapter two was short but gruesome and scary.  He keeps imaging himself getting hurt or taken away or being like the others.  In this chapter it is telling him as an older man looking back to his past and what he had to become and what he was and how he has to remember it because it is a big part of him to this day.  I already feel so bad for the boy, so young and has to experience things like that at such a young age.  It's not fair and I already don't want to continue the book at the second chapter.