Week 3 Post B

I have to say that I'm getting tired of all of the violence in this book. At first, the people who die shock the reader and set the tone for the book. However, after 100 pages of non-stop dying and carnage, it loses it's potency on the reader's emotions. Maybe it's just me, but now I ignore Beah when he is complaining about how bad his feet hurt or how many people he has seen die. The book does incorporate other interesting topics such as jungle survival. I always enjoyed watching Surviverman and Man vs. Wild on the discovery channel and reading about the fruit that Beah eats, the shelters he makes, and the animals he encounters is almost better than the t.v. shows. Overall, I like Beah simplistic and blunt writing style which makes the story easy to get into. On the other hand, I feel that he could do a much better job of making the reader sympathize with him and keeping their interest. In other words, all of the dying gets old.