Ishmael Beah

I thought Ishmael Beah's presentation was very entertaining and full of information. Also he answered some of the questions that I had from the reading. I always wondered if he still had problems to this day with thinking of his past. Obviously he still does sometimes but he said that he began feeling better about telling his story and sharing the happenings of his journey. He also shared that during his time in the war that he slept about one or two hours a day and still to this day he can only sleep 4 hours or so a night. This will probably stay with him his whole life and will always remind him of that fact that he has lived a very stress filled life style. Also he answered the question of if it was hard to write his book and relive his past. He answered this by telling how he had nightmares after writing about certain events and also almost thought about canceling the whole writing of the book. All in all it was great to hear from the author of this great tale and he answered all of my questions that I had about it.