my essay

Everyone has a safe place somewhere you go to disconnect yourself in the world, a place that has many past memories, or even just a place to rest your head at night. Now as your picturing that place in your head, imagine a getting destroyed by an army of rebels who's only intention is to kill and destroy. Ravaging through everything and anything, and worst of all exterminating your family. How would your story be written in the aftermath?
Taking place in the Sierra Leone, 12-year-old Ishmael Beah was forced to run away from his home because of attacking rebels. Beah experience what none could even imagine, coming home to it destroyed and abandoned home. from encounter with his demolished Safe haven, he took on quite a bit of sadness and turned it into rage. It's exciting to see how hurt feelings and lost hope you can make someone want to accomplish and conquer everything in the world, even more when anger is turned into drive. Even though what he wanted to accomplish wasn't the best thing. This story if anything else is a transformation story going from complete fullness and joy, to abandonment and loneliness, to loving and educating others.
from spending a month in the rain forest fighting for your life, being addicted to marijuana and cocaine, doing the same things to other families as what tore yours apart and killing prisoners brutally, you can infer that nothing more was going to be made out of ishmaels life and he was going to end up dead like everyone else. But that's exactly what makes his story so enriching and exciting. Again his life dramatically changed and he was given the opportunity to change lives. UNICEF removed Ishmael and other boys from the camp that brainwash them into becoming killing machines and gave them the home again. Soon with the recognition of how smart he is and what he could share with peopl so that they could take something from his experience. He traveled to the United States telling his story and teaching about the dangers in Africa.
Like Ishmael many of us would act out and turn the wrong direction if something so close to our hearts was ripped away so soon. But it really about what you do after the storm that counts. Making the most out of a situation is detrimental to learning and living. Take something bad and turn it into something worth wild.