Blood Diamond Sparknotes

Blood diamond is a story start with the capture of a fisherman, Solomon Vandy, by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) revolts when they invade the small Sierra Leonian village of Shenge. Solomon had lost his family and being force to work in the diamond field under the order of Captain Poison, however his son, Dia, is turning into a hardened killer through brainwashing. The RUF often trading for arms by using the fund of diamonds.
One day, Solomon found a rare pink diamond. Captain Poison tried to get the pink diamond, but the government troops suddenly attack that area. In the attack, Captain Poison is injured and is taken to prison in Freetown, along with Solomon.
In the prison, there is an ex-mercenary from Rhodesia, Danny Archer, who is imprisoned because of smuggling the diamonds into Liberia. Archer had heard about the pink diamond, he arranged himself and Solomon freed from prison and in the exchange of diamond, he helps Solomon to find his family. They reach to an American journalist, Maddy Bowen, who helps Solomon track down his family and as an exchanged, Archer give her the information about the diamond market to stop the blood diamonds flow and get access to use the press convoy travel to Kono to find diamond. However, the convoy is attacked and Acher, Solomon and Bowen escape

After the overnight trek, the two men reach the mining camp in a river valley and buried the large diamond. At there, Solomon reunion with his son, Dia, but Dia refuses to acknowledge him because of the brainwashed by rebels. Besides, Solomon also reunited with Captain Poison. Amist the chaos, Captain Poison is kills by Solomon with a shovel. In a battle, Archer realizes that they would kill both Archer and Solomon upon the locating of the diamond, he then kills Coetzee and the two soldiers with him. At this moment, Solomon convinces Dia to side with