When we listen to his words it feels like he hasn’t wrote his memoirs with words but they are his actual experiences and feelings, which automatically flowed out of his pen. Many of us know that his story is his real life experience, but when we listen to him we realize this fact! His journey through life and sufferings has made him the person with an alluring charm and fascinating personality. His winning smile is not for others to see, but for him to feel!Friends, this is Ishmael Beah.
He indeed is the live version of his book, "The memoirs of a Child Soldier'. In his interviews he genuinely talks about his past violent life and present horrifying nightmares in his peaceful sleep. So we feel a yet more different grief when we listen about those torments, which he faced a child soldier, in his own voice. Today he remembers everything in detail about his childhood and has no complains about it. He is fully aware of the pains he went through and he again has no complaints even against those pains.
I just loved his attitude towards his own life and the world. His speeches satisfactorily explains that his goal to write his book was not to make people know about the hardships he faced, but to make people aware of the brutality done on kids by animals of the same breed as theirs .
After knowing so much about an inspiring person like Ishmael Beah, through his book and interviews, I want people to stop humiliating his life by calling him a ‘Former Child Soldier’. They should instead think of him as a 'deserving survivor' among thousands of child soldiers!
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