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Ismael returns to his family in Freetown and goes to school. The students become scared because they know hes a war soldier and hes been through a lot so they split apart or don't talk to him. He wakes up in gunfire on May 25, 1997, violence breaks out in the capital. People are being killed by the RUF uncontrollably. For the next 5 months, gunmen rule the streets, looting raping, and killing people. Uncle Tommy dies in Ishmael's arm by getting ill and noting being nursed or watched over. He finds help by talking to Laura, asking her to if he can come to New York with her.

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Ishmael finds New York to be different and brutally cold. He spends most of his time walking the streets and watching people. he compares it to rap music and is shocked. He later meets other delegates and learns their stories. He learns how the wars and conflicts have ruined their childhood. he tells the delegates his tough time in the wars and suffering, bonding with a storyteller, laura Simms, who invites the children to share their struggles through oral tradition and music

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Ismael say's his goodbyes to his friendship Benin home and moves in with Uncle Tommy's family. N+But it could be tough for him because hes not used to this peaceful community and isn't used to be around with his real family. he meets a girl later on and dates her for a few weeks until she pushes him to know more about his past.. Ishmael gets the same results with other girls, but leslie encourages him to apply to be part of a delegation of children who will visit the United Nations in New York and tell their stories.

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Ishmael puts on a show for the UN, UNICEF , and non governmental organizations and they like it,  and the people are so impressed that they ask him he will be a spokesman for the center. he believes that kids after the war can be saved and can have an opportunity to change. Later on in the chapter, he meets his so called uncle tommy who'm he never met and his sheltered by him and Ismael knows he finally has a normal family.

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Ishmael's first breakthrough is caused by a nurse. He is given a Walkman and cassettes by Ester. Music begins to overtake him and begins to open up by telling the stories of his wars and told her that he was shot on the foot and was told to kill that man who shot him by his Lieutenant. This anger builds up inside of him and throws the Walkman at her. ester lures him through music so he can calm down and gains Ishmael's friendship.

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Ishmael and his friends are captured and are sent to a rehabilitation center bahaving like craged animals, attacking the nurse and cook with bowls and silverware.One afternoon comes andone of the buys plan to break a window and without thinking Ishamel uses his hands , cutting himslef viciously and it gets infected, non-stop bleeding, but a kind nerse appears as his savor and talks him into lettting her treat him, throught the kindess and peaceful environment  it wears the boys down. Ishmael, with a condition that is bad, wipes out a village with his friend and is known as " Green Snake" because of his ability to to hide beneath bushes using that advantage position and be sneaky.

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ishmael just only has his squad that is only his family and now and in his brain its all about kill or be killed. When ishmael is 15 and his world has changed in January of 1996. He and his friends are stopped by the UNICEF. and are taken to a fenced compound in Freetown. They are given food and shelter and begin to train, Meanwhile during the day a fight breaks out between the Ruf and their group.

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ishmael begins to use drugs to try to avoid his problems and gets into deeper things. He becomes this evil monster like going around villages to kill people. His commander asks Ishmael to attend to a slit throat competition. He finally uses his bayonet to slice the prisoner's adam's apple in a zigzag and wins , awarded the title of the junior lieutenant.

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Every kid is ready to train and are given live ammunition for the first time, ishmael kills a man for the fist time and his friends are shot as he watches them die. After the battle, he feels guilty and numb and his nightmares get released to him 

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Every kid is ready to train and are given live ammunition for the first time, ishmael kills a man for the fist time and his friends are shot as he watches them die. After the battle, he feels guilty and numb and his nightmares get released to him 

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The group go to the village where their families are at. They meet Gasemu, a banana farmer that Ishmael knows, and help him carry bananas into the village. When they go they hear gunshots, dogs barking, and people screaming. The boys drop their bananas and hide in the bushes. Then Ishmael runs into the village, but doesn't find any bodies inside and attacks Gasemu and the boys begin fighting. They run away and when the boys stop, they saw that Gasemu has gunshot wounds and later dies.

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The group continues to travel and are given a bag of dried meat. The meat is stolen and eaten by a dog and they choose not to harm the dog, but they realize that the day may come when they will be desperate enough to do something like eat dog meat for survival. Later, Saidu gets ill and can't respond. When he wakes, they take him to a nearby village. A woman tells Ishmael that Junior has recently been in the village. During the night, Saidu dies, and the boys bury his body before they leave again, this time in search of their families.

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Ishmael's group reach the ocean and villagers steal their shoes chasing them from the village, and Ishmael and the boys walk barefoot on 120-degree sand. The group stops in a hut, and the man who lives there helps their injuries and feeds them. Again, the boys are caught and taken to the village chief, and the cassettes of rap save Ishmael again. The chief makes Ishmael perform, and realizes that they are only kids and lets them leave the village.

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Ishmael keeps walking to survive. He fears sleep and where his thoughts might take him. Ishmael leaves the forest and runs into a group of boys. Fortunately, Ishmael a few of the boys from his school and joins the group. Ishmael worries that being with a group of boys will invite trouble. They get attacked and struggle to defend themselves. When the villagers realize that they're a group of innocent boys, they are more sympathetic.

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Ishmael is in Kamator hiding and it's attacked late at night without warning. Most of the villagers are at evening prayer when the rebels invade. The villagers are killed or flee into bushes. Ishmael manages to escape. After a night in hiding, Ishmael finds Kalako and they return to the village to find everything burned. Ishmael and Kalako hide with a family for two weeks. He walks by the sea and for five days straight but doesn't see any other people. All villages have been abandoned and burned.

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Because Ishmael and his friends travel together, they are feared by villagers, so the boys stay in bushes and try to avoid towns. Once they were caught and were in front of the village council, they find a cassette tape from Ishmael and a boy remembers them and they were saved. During their travels, rebels attack, the group is separated, and Ishmael never sees Junior again.

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Their hunger makes Ishmael's group to chase a child they find eating ears of corn, and later, the boy's mother brings Ishmael and his friends more corn. They return to Mattru Jong and on the way, they are captured by the rebels, and the rebels taunt and torture an old man and force Ishmael's group to watch. Ishmael was shocked because, before the war, no one of his age would dare disrespect an elder like that. Gunfire breaks out and the group escapes.

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Ishmael, his brother, and his friends return to Khalilou's house for money and find the house destroyed, but Ishmael's tiny bag of money is still stashed under the foot of the bed. Though the boys now have money to buy food, no one sells to them. Villagers are stashing supplies for their own struggle to survive. Ishmael and his band steal food in the night.

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A messenger arrives from the site of the most recent attack with the initials RUF carved with a hot bayonet on the his body. The messenger says that the rebels will be arriving in Mattru Jong. The village hides, but after ten days without rebels arriving, life turns normal. Five days later, the rebels attack, and Ishmael and his friends escape.

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Ishmael has nightmares of carrying bodies in a wheelbarrow through his village to the cemetery. He sees mangled bodies, streams of blood, leaking brains and intestines. His last image is of lifting the cloth off the head of a dead body and seeing that it is his own face

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After walking for days, Ishmael gets captured by a group of soldiers and taken to Yele, he then gets miraculously saved by the rebels and ask him to join forces or leave the village. He has no choice but to stay and fight because he knows its suicide.

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Ishmael, Junior, Talloi, and Mohamed have been rapping and dancing to rap music since they formed a group after they learned of rap during a visit to Mobimbi. They leave their village Mogbwemo on a trip to Mattru Jong to be in a talent show. They later find out that rebels attacked Mogbwemo and realize that going back to the village is impossible, so they return to Mattru Jong and spend their days waiting for their families.