Ishmael Benin Home Analysis

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It has been five months for him at the rehab center, Benin Home. In song lyrics he wrote that Esther reads, he says that he feels like he has nothing left to be alive for, because he has no family. He is told that visitors were coming, such as UNICEF, the UN, the European Commission, and NGOs. Ishmael participates in the talent show they hold for the visitors, and he performs a Julius Caesar monologue and a short hip hop play about the redemption fo a boy soldier. He is recognized by the director, Mr. Kamara. He’s asked to be a spokesperson for boy soldiers. He spoke at several gatherings in free town about the wrongs of child soldiering and how it needs to stop. Mohamed, his childhood friend, gets to the rehab center months after Ishmael. He was in Mogwembo when the rebels attacked the village, but Ishmael hadn’t heard from him since. When Leslie says they cannot find any of his immediate family, Ishmael asks her to find his Uncle Tommy, his father’s brother. Ishmael didn’t expect much anyways, so he was pleasantly surprised when his Uncle was found. He sees his uncle, and his uncle begins crying. Leslie told him about everything Ishmael has been through, and uncle Tommy calls Ishmael his son. Uncle Tommy visits Ishmael at the center every week, and converse. His uncle tells him that his cousins do not know about his horrible experiences in the war. Ishmael meets his uncle’s family, and he was treated like a son by his uncle and aunt, and like a brother by his cousin, Allie. …show more content…

They are family by blood, after all. Cite and explain - “‘It is good to have another boy in the family’ Allie said after he hugged me.” This quote is important because it shows a beginning of a brotherly bond. Ishmael lost Junior, and maybe Allie will fill the hole that Ishmael has had ever

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