“In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy, and confusion” (Beah 166). Ismael Beah uses memories as a method to find coziness within the horrific times throughout the environment of RUF. Beah reveries the periods of times before RUF as a child, recounting the jubilant moments of his family to surpass another day in war. In the other hand, Beah’s uses his memory to devotes himself motivation to stay alive in order relive those memories. His grandfather’s memories helped Beah in a survival way, and his grandmother reminds him that the moon is always and clarification for everything. His memory is a significant reason to surviving war, without it he would have been more vulnerable to
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“Some nights I saw the head of a man. He has a medium bread and wore sailor’s hat. Other times I saw a man with an ax chopping wood, and sometimes a woman cradling a baby at her breast. Whenever I get a chance to observe the moon now, I still see those same images I saw when I was six, and it pleases me to know that part of my childhood is still embedded in me” (Beah 17), he explains the different images he would vision when he was six-year-old as his grandmother told him “A lot of happy things happen when the moon shines. These are some reasons why we should want to be like the moon…we should strive like the moon” (Beah 17). He would always lay down on the ground, and would be always fascinated with all the assorted forms of the moon. “At night, it felt as if we were walking with the moon. It followed us under the thick clouds and waited for us at the other end of dark forest paths…under these stars and sky I used to hear stories, but now it seemed as if it was the sky that was telling us a story as it stars dell, violently colliding with each other. The moon hid behind clouds to avoid seeing what was happening” (Beah 80), Beah noticed the moon while searching for food but that the sky is conveying a story as the moon was hiding behind the clouds as they are afraid as him. Beah hearing stories of the moon from his grandmother, helped him throughout war with her story telling and that there is always an answer with the
“Some nights I saw the head of a man. He has a medium bread and wore sailor’s hat. Other times I saw a man with an ax chopping wood, and sometimes a woman cradling a baby at her breast. Whenever I get a chance to observe the moon now, I still see those same images I saw when I was six, and it pleases me to know that part of my childhood is still embedded in me” (Beah 17), he explains the different images he would vision when he was six-year-old as his grandmother told him “A lot of happy things happen when the moon shines. These are some reasons why we should want to be like the moon…we should strive like the moon” (Beah 17). He would always lay down on the ground, and would be always fascinated with all the assorted forms of the moon. “At night, it felt as if we were walking with the moon. It followed us under the thick clouds and waited for us at the other end of dark forest paths…under these stars and sky I used to hear stories, but now it seemed as if it was the sky that was telling us a story as it stars dell, violently colliding with each other. The moon hid behind clouds to avoid seeing what was happening” (Beah 80), Beah noticed the moon while searching for food but that the sky is conveying a story as the moon was hiding behind the clouds as they are afraid as him. Beah hearing stories of the moon from his grandmother, helped him throughout war with her story telling and that there is always an answer with the