a long Way Gone Chap. 19-20

Yet another two chapters were everything is going the way Ishmael would like them to. He finally gets to go home and see how normal life is again, going to dances, dating, and knowing the meaning of a family. And he gets to go to the UN in New York to talk to them about the problems affecting the children in Africa. I was overjoyed with happiness thinking that this would be his final travel and that he was finally in the US for good. Ishmael made a lot of friends that I know he will remember for life. These chapters made me believe that Ishmael was finally going to come out of the war alive, even though I already knew he would because he wrote the book, but when i get trapped in Ishmael's terrific writing it is hard to remember that he is alive. I was a little sad that he had to go back to Sierra Leone, but I loved how his outlook on life had changed because he knew that if he died, at least he would live on in the memory of all those he has affected in the US.