Response To Julia Day4

In the book They Poured Fire on Us, one character that is not focused on as much as the other that I find adds a nice depth to the story is Alepho’s friend Achol. Even though Alepho can be a lot to handle sometimes, when he gets around his friends he changes a lot. I feel like this adds a little mini love story to Alepho’s section of the book. Even though they are just friends, they friendship reminds me of those stories were a boy and a girl are friends since childhood and end up falling in love. I can’t remember any movies or stories that have this type of plot to it, but I know I’ve seen something along the lines of it. The book has a lot of disturbing scenes that make the tone of the book kind of gloomy, but Achol helps bring a little light into the story. This makes it a lot easier to read for me because I can relate to their little relationship. I lived by this one girl my whole life and we were good friends our whole lives, we would even play house and games like Achol and Alepho played. A little later in the book when Alepho’s village gets attacked by the government, he finds out that Achol was killed in the attack. This kind changed the vibe of the book back to gloomy for me and I felt what he was feeling, even though the girl I lived by didn’t die, we stopped talking so she kind of did in a way.

I did mention how I had a similar person in my life like Achol, but she didn’t impact me nearly as much as my cousin has. Me and my cousin have been best friends since we were both born. Every chance we got, we would have sleep overs. When we were younger we had to argue with both of our parents just to get one of use to stay at the others house. Now that we are older and I am able to drive whenever, we can hangout more than we ever did, and we have never been closer. I usually see him at least 4 or 5 times a month, and sometimes he’ll stay over for 4 or 5 days in a row. Without my cousin I wouldn’t have a friend that I can also call a family member which is something I’m proud to admit.