7) Q: Explain the transformation that happens to Beah on pages 118-120.
A: During those three pages, Beah changes in three major ways: he became aware, he became angry, and he finally became numbed by the war and fighting. First, Beah realized that the war around him and the disarray that it produced was real and that he was now a big part of it. This can be seen when Beah says, “Suddenly, as if someone was shooting them inside my brain, all of the massacres I had seen since the day I was touched by the war began flashing in my head.” (Beah 119) Second, Beah became angry, infuriated even, with the war, and it only made his lust for revenge even stronger. With his anger, the fear that he had in the beginning had vanished, as seen when he says,