A Long Way Gone Pages 15-57

During these pages in "A Long Way Gone", Ishmael, the main character, keeps having these strange dreams in which he mixes his actual memory with imagination.  In an attempt to not have anymore of his strange dreams, Ishmael stays up all night.  Ishmael realizes that when there are no people filling a town, the town looks dead and somber, and even nature has no life to it when there are no people in it.  After many rumors about the rebel armies attacking Mattru Jong more days pass and the boys are safe with no interactions from the armies.  Later while Ishmael is cooking, the rebels attack the town and maddness fills the town.  People are running for their lives in mass chaos; the boys hop from bush to bush and eventually the rebels gave up on trying to capture them.  As the boys continue walking from their escape, they try to make food out of coconuts and fruit, but aren't satisfied with it.  They go to the market to buy food, but the market wasn't selling food because the market owners were saving the food for themselves.  While the boys are walking through grasslands, three rebels pop up and start harassing them and pointing their guns at them.  They then take them to a nearby village and start selecting people to recrute for the rebel army.  Ishmael's brother Junior was selected to be in the rebel army.  Ishmael and the other boys come into contact with other people throughout the next couple chapters and eventually ishmael ends up alone trying to find peace.  Ishmael is lost in a forest and is determined to find his way out.  He walks for days at a time and eventually comes into contact with an old man.  The old man is very selfless and is expecting death very soon.
I found these chapters very intreging and it kept me on my toes wondering what would happen next.  I thought it was very interesting how the rebels and other people were so fasinated by the boys' clothes and rap tapes.  I also felt bad for Ishmael because he eventually is all by himself trying to keep himself in mental order.  I can't imagine going through what he has to go through every day, being tortured mentally and physically from not eating or drinking or getting sleep.  I have to interact with people or else I would start loosing my mind, especially in the situation that Ishmael is put in.