Summary Of In The Sky By Ishmael Beah

“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 that part of my childhood is still embedded in me” (17). The book begins with introducing Ishmael Beah’s young life such as his interest in rap music and dance, his close relationships with family and friends, as well as expressing his innocence through these childhood memories. He would remember depicting different images of the moon by using his imagination, which shows the reader the vulnerability of his character before the war arose. I thought this was a significant portion of the text, because it was one of the remembrances that comforted the appalling experience Beah had endure through.
How does the author’s
The author seemed to have really taken his grandmother’s moral lessons and wise sayings to heart during the war, to come in aid as comfort and ease. Ishmael Beah has photographic memory, which makes his experience far more explicit and traumatic. However, the important messages his grandmother told him about are still embedded deeply within him. That glimpse of hope and reassurance behind these teachings from his grandmother truly help him, molding him into a strong bold young man,
Throughout the author’s horrendous experience during the war, how is hope symbolized to overcome the tragedy?

“I concluded to myself that if I were the hunter, I would shoot the monkey so that it would no longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same predicament” (218).
The fact that this was the last page of the novel, I believe that it was written to show that because of the extent of how horrific the author’s experience was, he wouldn’t want anyone else to deal with the same situation. It portrays how Beah developed and grown as a person through these tragic experiences, and how he came to rehabilitation and acceptance of what he had gone