Lit Circle Post #2 / What is the What

Quote 1: " You are safe here boy, you are safe now," and I would sleep there and know I was not safe. The horses and guns and helicopters always came. I could not get out of this ring, this circle that was squeezing us within, and no one knew when the end would come.
Page 107, Achak Nyibek Arou Deng

Response: I chose this because it shows that Achak's hope is dying away with the hatred that the death of the people closest to him is creating for him. Achak is killing his joy of escaping and the death, slavery, and torture is destroying his hope. The way I think this links to me it’s that sometimes when I'm stressed out about homework or something the work that I forget always come back to beat me down. Once I think I'm in the clear there is always that assignment that my mind's grasp had slipped on.
Question: How do you think that you are connected to this?

Quote 2: These boys seemed sure that their families had been killed, despite what the old man and the nursing woman had said in the light of the fire, I convinced myself that this had not happened to me.
Page 117, Achak Nyibek Arou Deng

Response: I thought this had a lot of meaning because its telling us once again that all the death, slavery, and torture is rotting the love, hope and faith that these boys have. But Achak isn't letting all the cruelty that the devil pours into the souls of feeble men and the cruelty that they then spread get to him. Achak will keep on believing that his family is still alive with the faith that God has given him. I think that the quote connects to me in the sense that I fail to see that it’s possible for me to do or complete a project. And if I have failed in many things before or how Achak has seen what they've done to many closest to him, I believe that further on I will do better.
Question: Do you think that you in any sense would fail in believing something. Why or Why Not?