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Ishmael and his friends make it to a safe villiage before it gets attacked by the rebels and learns from someone else he knew there that his family was just up the hill. The elder tells Ishmael, "Your parents and brothers... for losing you." (Beah 92).

Ishmael proceeds to find this out and he gets anxious to see his family once again. He gets anxious to the point where he gets annoyed with helping out the elder and bringing his bananas back to the fields.

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Ishmael met some friends from Sierra Leone while on his journey to find his family. They all have a moment of happiness when they get out of trouble and they start to make jokes. Ishmael describes the happiness by saying "We look like... to dry ourselves," (90)

Ishmael and his friends share a very happy experience to get their minds off of the war and relax before they head into a new town. This shows they can have hope in one another to know that some people are still good in the world.

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"The idea of death didn't cross my mind at all and killing had become as easy as drinking water.  My mind had not only snapped during the first killing, it had also stopped making remorseful records, or so it seemed."(beah 122)

This quote proves that Beah has become a stone cold killer form the war he has experienced. He lost all of his humanity in that moment of time and didn't care about what pain he has caused people and what harm he has caused his mental state.

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"My hands had begun to shake uncontrollably and my migraines had returned with a vengeance.  It was as if a blacksmith had and anvil in my head.  I would hear and feel the hammering of metal in my head and these unbearable sharp sounds made my veins and muscles sour."(beah 140)

This quote proves the side effects Beah sufferes from the war he has experienced and the PTSD he is going through in that very moment. Very big impact on him when he starts to suffer from the Evil taken over him.

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"I tapped him on the shoulder, and he smiled as he understood that I was saying we were going to be fine.  I never saw him again, since he continually moved from one foster home to another. At the end of our handshake Alhaji stepped back saluted me and whispered. Goodbye squad leader I tapped him on the shoulder again, I couldn't salute him in return."(beah 180)

Beah didn't salute in return because he wanted to leave that life behind and he didn't want to have flashbacks from the war. He never saw Alhaji again, so he just left on a good term with him and just said goodbye.

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"I would always tell people that I believe children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings if given a chance."(Beah 168)

Beah is at the U.N. conference for children and he is speaking from the heart about his time as a child soldier. He says it is ruining kids in Sierra Leone and they need a second chance in Society to become human all over again.

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"I lay in my bed every night... I didn't know"(179)

Beah stuggles with Migraines from the memories he has suffered from the war he has experienced. He has the same nightmares over and over again. As he reflects on it he wonders when he will ever find happiness.

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Ishmael has been recruited as a soldier for the past couple months now. He got his gun from the army he was working with and he was proceeding to say that it felt like it was a part of him. Ishmeal says, "I stood there...use it well." (124).

Ishmael at this point has been manipulated into thinking that he is part of something that so right for his community and his late family. He has lost all control of humanity, remorse, and feeling for society.

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"We were so angry... Punish them severely" (Beah 151)

Beah was ordered to go punish prisoners with his squad. By doing that he gained the rank of junior LT. What he basically did was particapate in a killing contest and his prisoner died first out of the other squad members.

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"On wallace johnson street... to attract customers" (Beah 161)

Beah talks about the experience in New York and what he encountered when he saw Wall street. His experience with New york was exciting for him and he really loved being in America.

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Beah meets his new family that he will grow up with, since his biological parents are now deceased. In celebration to that Beah sings these lyrics, "Don't worry about a thing... gonna be alright" (Beah 173).

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"Even though we tried to convince that otherwise the villagers grew certain the rebles weren't coming and so they ordered us from our scouting posts and out into the fields." (Beah 41).

Beah is about to get revenge for the rebels. In his heart he feels the revenge is unecessary but he doesn't want to die so he sucks it up. He later than realizes people like himself couldn't be trusted because of what mass genocide the RUF has committed.

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"Being in a group of six boys was not to our advantage. But we needed to stay together because we had a better chance of escaping the day-to-day troubles we faced." (Beah 37).

Beah explains that it was a bad thing he was with other people due to being caught easily by the rebels. But he also said it was advantage because of the mad fact is that they might be able to get out of trouble.

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"It was Junior and my friends. They had somehow ended up running in the same direction." (Beah 35).

Junior and his friends found each other through groups. They crossed paths when finding the same village coincidentally. So Junior and his group thought they were safe since they found each other.

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"His hands didn't swing as they used to when he strolled across the yard on his way back from school." (Beah 26).

Junior was affect by the war very much. He lost just as much as Ishmeal did. He doesn't know what he wants in life anymore because he lost so much. He is also in so much pain due to what he lost.

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"We were first introduced to rap music during one of our visits to Mobimbi, a quarter where the forigners who worked for the same American company as my father lived." (6)

The culture Ishmeal Beah grew up with involved listening to rap music. He describes it as a healing process to him so he tells the story of his first encounter with rap music. He loved rap music so much he ended up starting a rap/dance group with his brothers and best friend.

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"It was the... never told her." (181)

Beah goes off to his new family, who is his fathers brother. He realizes when he goes to live with his uncle he made a lot of friends back at the rehab center and he never told them that he loved them because it was to hard to leave them.