When the question asked, how Beah changed and stayed the same during his journey goes like this. Beah said in Chapter 15 (126) that, “my squad was my family, my gun was my provider and my protector, my rule was to kill or be killed. The extent of thoughts didn’t go much beyond that. I felt no pity for anyone.” Beah used to be this young obedient child who listened to his parents. Things changed as he was tricked into being a soldier. After being a soldier for a while, he depended on drugs. He couldn’t feel emotion, or pain. He turned into an angry, selfish, human being. It was like an animal he was beginning to turn into.
After being in Benin house for Seven months for rehabilitation and became less dependent on drugs to survive, he started to turn into a whole new person. He began to open up to the nurse after first being reluctant. When he met his uncle, he was shocked. He wasn’t a touchy feely kind of guy. Everyone was accepting of Beah and told him it wasn’t his fault. He still felt obligated to fight but wore off after a while. The trip to New York I think changed his whole perspective on things. Beah felt he could have a future to talk to other kids who have gone through the same thing.
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The observation of Beah becoming an animal wasn't his fault. Beah had no choice for sure. Either it was be killed or do as the Army told them to do. If the war hadn't happen Beah wouldn't be the person he has turned out to be thus so far. You can say the war has benefit him in becoming the person we've read so far. The characteristics he has obtain was because of the war and the family groups he made along his journey.
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