Life hard for gun. Life hard for boy.

Boy take me with him when he leave men. Men use other gun like me kill people. Make boy use me kill people. Life not good.

I gun. Made to kill. Boy shoot me…that not right. Boy shoot WITH me. I best friend he have when cousin not come back.

Hard life for boy. Gun not lie. Gun not tattle. Gun good friend.

Boy speak me his problems. His family good. He have mother, father, sister and baby sister. Father dead, other family gone.

Pascal learn shoot me.Learn kill. Run away. Leave me under bush.

Boy have hard life. Gun no longer friend.

You can buy this book here. It’s a well written book about a boy’s life in an African country. Pascal is 10 when the war comes to his village and he is kidnapped to join an army. He escapes to a camp only to be kidnapped again to work in a cocoa plantation.