In the memoir, “A Long Way Gone” by Ishameal Beah, the author reveals his struggle to find hope through vivid natural imagery as he tries to survive alone in the broken villages of Sierra Leone. As Beah walks through the villages alone, he comes across a decision that he has to face: “Along the spring there were several trees with ripe fruit that I had never seen. I decided to try some of it, since it was the only edible thing around. It was either take the chance and eat this fruit that might poison me or die of hunger”(50-51). At this point in the memoir, Beah needs food in order to keep up physically and mentally to survive. Therefore, Beah makes the tough choice to eat the fruit and wait “for the result”(51). The imagery of a natural
