Ishmael Beah Speech

You can’t judge a man based on his past but by what he does in the future. Despite what some may think I believe we should allow Ishmael Beah to speak to us about child soldiers. I find the best way to comprehend an issue is through an expert, and the best way to realize the issue of child soldier is though Mr.Beah. He has endured first hand what it’s like to be a boy soldier and the steps to redeem himself for the consequences of war and revenge. Though his words Mr. Beah can create a concept for us to envisage. The best way to demonstrate why Mr. Beah should speak is by seeing his guilt, addiction, and most of all is atonement in his words.
The most abominable consequence of child soldiers is the addiction to drugs. These children aren’t just stripped of their childhood become dependent on drugs. Ishmael Beah shows how drugs become a coping mechanism to block out all the violence they’ve committed and what …show more content…
Beah struggled with the encumbrance of why he survived and what he’d done. these questions lead to unendurable guilt many child soldiers like Ishmael Baeh suffered. The cause of their guilt is the lose of their family and friend, conditions of fighting in the war, and nightmares that torment the child soldiers with memories. Beah struggled to allow himself to be happy because the guilt has held his feeling back and put him in a fragile state. this guilt causes child soldiers to think irrationally so they turned their guilt into enmity to avenge their family and friends. Ishmael Beah his guilt when he wrote, “I joined the army to avenge the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I am going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge; then revenge and revenge and revenge will never come to an end.” Beah is shows that he’s learned from the war was that revenge will lead to more war and more pain.The guilt was never their fault, but felt responsible for the grief he