Jojo's story

At first, I was confused as I read this story because I didn’t know why there is no-one in Jojo’s village, and I still don’t know if Jojo is a girl or a boy. I was glad that the people who Jojo met were nice. It was only a good thing in this story. However when I read the last sentence, “Now I have a gun and I’m a man”, I was sad again.