Silent song and other stories,~~~"BOYI" by Gloria Mwaniga....Essay Three.

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Summary

TLDRThe video is a discussion about analyzing essays on the short stories in 'A Silent Song and Other Stories,' with an emphasis on how war devastates communities, focusing on Gloria Maniga's story 'Boy.' The narrative details how conflict can destroy family bonds and lead to emotional trauma and societal breakdowns. Examples from the story 'Boy' highlight the militia's imposition of taxes and the brutal choices families must make, such as a father giving up his son. Emotional and psychological impacts on family members, like the mother sinking into insanity and the father's desperation, are explored. The broader impact of war is shown through the disruption of agriculture, displacement of people, and the transformation of children into violent individuals. The story concludes with the tragic death of the character 'Boy,' symbolizing the ruinous effect of conflict.

Takeaways

  • 🌅 The video is a morning discussion.
  • 📚 Focuses on 'A Silent Song and Other Stories'.
  • ✍️ Analyzes essays on war's impact on communities.
  • 🔍 Uses 'Boy' by Gloria Maniga as a reference.
  • 👪 Highlights destruction of family and community bonds.
  • 💔 Discusses emotional and psychological trauma.
  • 🚜 War disrupts agriculture and daily life.
  • 🧠 Mother's descent into insanity due to loss.
  • 📉 Community disintegration during war times.
  • ☠️ 'Boy' symbolizes the tragic cost of conflict.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The presenter begins by greeting the audience and setting the context about the early morning filming of the video. He highlights the purpose of the session, which is to discuss essays related to a silent song and Other Stories. The focus is on breaking down short stories by examining their plot synopses, character traits, and in this session, responding to specific essay prompts. The presenter emphasizes the importance of subscribing to the channel to stay updated with new videos and encourages viewers to share the content. He then introduces the essay topic: how war ruins communities, using "Boy" by Gloria Moniga as a reference. The discussion points out that conflicts can wreck communities by destroying family ties and causing psychological trauma.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:13:03

    The presenter continues to delve into the theme of war's impact on communities, detailing how war-induced conflicts can lead to family separation, mental breakdowns, and community disruption. He uses examples from the story "Boy" by Gloria Moniga to illustrate how a militia, originally meant to protect, turns against its own community, leading to demands for money and resulting in family betrayals. The emotional and psychological toll on characters like Baba and Mama demonstrates the damage war inflicts on individuals and families. It is discussed how these stresses lead to behaviors such as superstition, mental instability, and the irrevocable loss of loved ones. The speaker offers a detailed analysis of the characters' deterioration and the communal disintegration caused by the conflict, urging viewers to pause and absorb key points during the presentation.

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Video Q&A

  • What is the main topic of the video?

    The video discusses essays about short stories in "A Silent Song and Other Stories," specifically focusing on how war ruins communities.

  • Which story is mainly referenced in the discussion?

    The story 'Boy' by Gloria Maniga is mainly referenced in the discussion.

  • What are some consequences of conflict as discussed?

    Consequences include destruction of family ties, trauma, insanity, and forcing people into strange cultural practices due to war.

  • How does the speaker suggest viewers engage with the channel?

    The speaker suggests subscribing to the channel, sharing the content, and leaving comments for motivation.

  • What does Baba do in response to the militia's demands?

    Baba hands over his savings, a precious radio, a hunting gun, and offers to sell his bull for cash, eventually giving his son to the militia.

  • How is the mother's reaction to the son's fate depicted?

    The mother becomes anguished and detached from reality, displaying signs of insanity as she mourns her son.

  • What cultural practice does Baba partake in following the events?

    Baba participates in a mock burial ritual to symbolically send away his son's spirit.

  • What impact does the war have on local agriculture?

    The war disrupts agricultural activities, with militia stealing crops and livestock, and preventing normal farming operations.

  • How are children affected by the conflict according to the video?

    Children are forced into becoming savages; some must murder or rape, and they are deeply traumatized.

  • What is the fate of the character 'Boy' by the end of the story?

    Boy is killed brutally, thrown from a helicopter, leaving his family devastated without a body to bury.

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    essay 3 write a composition showing how
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    War ruins communities making reference
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    to Boy by Gloria moniga again write a
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    composition showing how War runes
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    communities making reference to Boy by
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    glor here
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    maniga now we are not going to waste any
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    time let's jump into the next
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    Slide the slide is
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    here uh when conflict thrives it
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    destroys Family Ties and communal bonds
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    family members are separated from one
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    another some are traumatized and others
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    killed as a result of the crisis in
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    Gloria mana's boy the militia meant to
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    protect Community landar from strangers
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    turn out to be the enemy Within wrecking
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    and told havoc on the same community
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    that they had vowed to protect now that
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    good students makes our thesis our our
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    our NY gr or our topic sentence there
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    we're going to do a little bit of
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    citations explanation and if possible
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    description of the
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    same
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    first as a result of the war some family
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    members are disunited from the rest of
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    the family the militia demands 40,000
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    land protection tax that is equivalent
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    to 10,000 land protection tax and 30,000
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    th000 betroyal tax which Baba cannot
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    raise remember who Baba is good now Baba
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    had lent a panga and makong robs to the
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    government surveyors matake and his
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    thugs deemed this betroyal
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    now good Learners this will only make
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    be relevant let's
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    continue uh in his
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    desperation Bubba hands over everything
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    that he holds his savings precious radio
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    and hunting gun he promises to sell his
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    bull that is M bakaki to raise the cash
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    that the militia leaders was leader was
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    demanding his pleas they fall on their
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    is he's forced to buy the safety of his
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    family by handing over his 15-year-old
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    son to the militia this pushes his
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    mother to the pre to the precipi of
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    lunacy now tearing of her kitanga head
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    SC she shouts at her husband a child is
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    not a match or a dress that one can give
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    away rather casually Baba's action
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    caused a rift caus caused a rift between
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    him and mama he justifies his actions
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    and says that he the aggressors rather
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    would have tortured or even killed them
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    had he not given Bo away now you know
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    who boy is he is however sudden that the
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    boys uh who had vowed to protect their
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    land had stand on them like a hungry
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    chameleon that e its intestines indeed
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    conflict ruins
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    communities uh conflict causes
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    devastation that pushes some people to
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    the bring of Insanity boy sister finds
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    her mother sit alone on a kitty mot in
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    the kitchen she neither looks up nor
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    responds to greetings she screams at the
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    girl to leave some tea for her brother
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    who will return from the caves hungry
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    the screaming goes on for weeks stupid
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    girl you want to finish tea and your
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    brother will come from the caves hungry
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    that is a citation from the text we to
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    support it with the allegations she bows
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    she would sit stand gazing at the wall
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    declaring that she envisions her son
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    returning home after escaping from the
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    snare of the militia after her
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    monologues she would sit sadly and
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    silently when her Madness takes a walk
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    they would Brew tea together with a girl
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    and she would nostalgically reminisce
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    stories about boy about how he saved her
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    marriage his shiny eonis kid and
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    eloquence in English this is a clear
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    Testament of a mother's Agony anguish
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    and of course disconnection from real it
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    War really causes Devastation to
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    families the war drives Baba a Christian
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    to partake in a strange cultural
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    practice to escort boy spirit away
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    together with his cin kimutai he digs a
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    shallow grief and buries a banana stem
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    wrapped in a green cotton shet he asked
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    death to take that body and never bother
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    his family again boy sister is taken a
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    back that her Pious father had turned
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    his back on religion her mother refuses
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    to play a part in the mock barrial
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    Mama's voice Bears manic vibrancy when
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    she declares that she would not
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    participate in escorting her son spirit
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    away she has lost touch with reality and
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    lives in denial this is a result of the
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    pointless
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    conflict in her anguish the rather mama
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    is too desant to eat she sits muttering
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    to herself without touching her food the
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    the food will be thrown away to the
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    kitchen coup she sits and talks to
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    herself for hours on and lamenting about
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    her Sovereign she asks God to tie a ROP
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    around her stomach to help her bear the
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    anguish of losing her son to the
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    ruthless militia she asks boy sister if
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    she remembers his perfect teeth whoo
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    really C The Sovereign of family
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    members um
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    also War disrupts work in the village uh
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    which is evident that December the
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    farmers do not clear their Chambers for
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    the second planting of
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    maze the militia steals young crops from
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    the fields and goats from the pens
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    instead of working men and women sit and
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    exchange Dreadful tales of the
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    horrendous Cy of the militia the militia
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    cut up people and throw their bodies in
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    rivers Petra Twins and of course Wells
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    they recruit boys as young as 10 who are
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    forced to kill their own relatives
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    instead of protecting the land the
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    militia goes on um an indiscriminate
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    killing spree and their kid are victims
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    of the aggression instead of
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    beneficiaries boy sister has a terrible
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    dream that her brother attacks her and
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    chops her into small small pieces the
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    thought is traum is
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    traumatizing
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    moreover the walk es uh displacement of
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    people who live their homes and mass in
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    masses rather the family of the
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    narrator's friend that is chai moves
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    away to Chu The Villages of Copo soret
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    chipuk and chelbe are engulfed in a
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    thick yellow fog of fear they did not
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    understand the militia motive anymore
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    the thugs take away girls to cook for
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    them they decapitate people and through
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    their heads in JTA buur River they also
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    rap their own relatives they abused to
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    women and girls end up giving birth to
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    transparent plastic bag babies the
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    narrator imagines the horror of seeing
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    boy's plastic bag baby playing childhood
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    games since school is disrupted by the
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    war such thoughts H the young girl as
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    she spends her idle days and her flame
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    tree at home
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    home because of the war we noted done
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    good students because of the war
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    innocent children turn into Savages
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    apart from the boys who were now forced
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    to murder or rape their own Kinsman boy
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    has also gone from a God-fearing young
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    man to a wanted criminal CH tells his
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    parents that he is now A Marked Man he
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    says this was taken with it the mind of
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    your son the distressing news crushes
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    boys parents and reduces both of them to
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    tears they cannot wrap their heads
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    around the fact that their good son who
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    resided his PS devotedly is now a m
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    rightand man and at Enemy of the State
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    An Enemy of the State brother rather War
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    really ruins families good students I
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    would like I would suggest and indicate
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    that uh proposal suppose that you you
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    POS in between the video so that you
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    take sentiment I mean important ideas I
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    mean the the points that you feel like
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    they are uh maybe uh they the key
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    moments or the key highlights because
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    progressively going together like this
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    one it doesn't exactly add up if you'll
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    be just listening uh would indicate that
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    maybe you are SE somewhere with your
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    notebook and maybe trying to chop down
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    the key moments of this particular work
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    here we
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    continue
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    lastly boys for family is devastated by
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    the news of his killing the nation
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    newspaper headlight screams coldly
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    ragtag militia leaders killed by army
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    forces BBA crumples like an old Court
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    due to shock mama is too St to cry she
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    simply laughes boy sister is too gutted
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    to weap war has dropped them off their
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    kid in the prime of his youth boy is
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    murdered brutally after being flung out
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    of a helicopter which was bid air there
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    was nobody body to bury or for Mama to
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    slap for that matter she does not roll
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    on the ground as in the custom she's
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    neither bitter nor sad she only has the
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    eyes of lunacy and a voice of death
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    She's truly devastated she sits on boy's
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    bed together with her daughter Who Weeps
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    uncontrollably her tears soaking her
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    clothes War indeed destroys families in
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    conclusion in summary it is evident that
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    or crisis has no positive outcome they
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    stay destroy families and
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    communities good Learners this has been
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