"Drop the bag and hurry. The rebels are coming. Come on." (pg. 28 Ch. 4)
As Beah and his brother and friends are escaping from Mattru Jong for the second time. A boy is crossing the clearing where the rebels are guarding, and he is going slow because he is carrying a lot of things with him from his house. The boys tell him to hurry because the rebels are shooting at them.
The passage gives the reader a greater sense of the urgency that Beah and his friends are dealing with. They are looking to escape from the hell that is following them, but also shows their humanity. Most people would not care about others during moments such as these. But Beah and his friends do. It says a lot about not only their dyer need to escape, but also the innocence and human worth that they feel.
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Again, a nice reading of those lines -- the sense of urgency that they are constantly in. To take your analysis deeper, you could explain how the sentence structure (its syntax) allows for the urgency. These are very short, imperative sentences. Three quick commands.
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