To me, I felt like this author was reliable because all the things he did throughout the memoir seemed too real not to be true. When he was reminiscing what he did in the past, all the details were very specific and was realistic. All the events that he has gone through were actually true, and I actually did a little research on my own to find out more about the events of the book. In 1991, there was, in fact, a civil war going on in his country. Ishmael lived in Sierra Leone, a country in Africa. The war began when rebels known as Revolutionary United Front got help from Liberia’s special forces to overthrow the government. Villages in Sierra Leone were dragged into a war they wanted no part in. Desperate to defeat one another, both sides
