On page 37, Beah writes, “This was one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy.” I know why people would think that, the corruption of their country is very prominent here. It's hard for people to think much of the human race when so many bad things are happening around them. Putting faith in things can be hard, especially if your child has been kidnapped, or you watched your town get burnt down. I can relate to when my cousin was dying of brain cancer. Priests would visit him, everyone said they were praying, but Guy died anyway. I lost all my faith, how could something happen like that to someone who doesn't deserve it at all? In my life, I have felt like I couldn't trust anybody. It's hard to feel like that, but I have never felt to to the extent where I couldn't trust anyone in my entire country. It's hard to trust strangers, naturally (I would say) from the beginning, anyways.
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