How Did The Horrors Of War Change Beah's Life

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If Beah did not go through certain events in his life, this would have changed the whole outcome of him living or dying. When Beah first experienced a woman with a baby who was bleeding almost to death, this prepared him for the horrors he and his friends would see in the war. Without this experience he would have been traumatized by the war. Before Beah had seen the true horrors of war he saw a child that, “gave a loud screech and sat next to a tree” and Beah felt as if, “the child’s yelp was still echoing in [his] head” (Beah 94). Ishmael needed to experience this trauma throughout the war because it was what kept him from getting too emotional during it. If Ishmael did not experience this event he probably would be dead because his emotions

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