The tragic journey of a young child soldier Ishmael consists of many ironies.
Due to the civil war, Ishamel and his family has been separated for a long period of time. During Ishmael’s journey, he learns where he could find his family and becomes ecstatic. However, they stopped at a banana farm before they approached the village. When he finally approaches near the village, he hears the gunshots go off, dogs barking and people screaming. When he finally enters the village everyone was dead and he couldn’t find his family. If Ishmael did not stop to pick bananas, his life would have ended.
Ishmael had to go through arduous journey with many obstacles however Ishmael did not learn much from his horrifying experience. When Ishmael finally reaches the capital city of Sierra Leone, Freetown, he smiled and was positive that his situation will not become worse then the current situation. From his experience of watching the R.U.F forces attacking village to village, he should have seen that army to eventually end up in the capital city.
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