Change?

I believe Ishmael Beah has stayed the same throughout the whole book. Why? for me, Ishmael has always been the kind of person who takes decisions and accept the consequences these may bring to his life. One example of this kind of attitude is when he chose to join the army. He knew there were only two options: kill the rebels who killed his family or try to escape and keep running away. The way I see he accepted the consequences this brought to his life was when he was in Benin home. Even if everyone told him "It was not your fault," he always knew inside him that it was himself who took the decision to join the army and that he accepted everything that he did.

Another example where I see that Ishmael takes decisions and that he accept them, is when he tried to leave Sierra Leone after his uncle died. Why? Laura told him he could live with her, but convince her was not the hardest part, it actually was leaving the country. He had first to travel to Guinea, he knew the trip was going to be dangerous. He knew that and still, he took the decision to try it, even if the chances were really slim. For me as a reader, I see that Ismael took the chance knowing that the consequence of not making it would be one of two: he would die trying or he would have to go back to the front lines.

These two examples make me believe that Ishmael was the same kind of person throughout the book; but, I think these examples work only for this aspect. I think that if we look other aspects of the way he behaved, we could see that he changed a lot.