"When I was a child, my grandmother told me that the sky speaks to those who look and listen to it. She said, "In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything; every pain, every suffering, joy, and confusion." That night I wanted the sky to talk to me."
I find this group of sentences so powerful, it just shows that the author through all his suffering and bad memories, still holds a place in his heart for the good memories. At first he can't remember the good times with family, but slowly it comes back. How wonderful of a gift for those of us who had grandparents who loved us as Ishmael's grandma loved him.
She was so wise to look to the sky for advice and wisdom and to pass it on to her grandchildren. Even war can not erase what is good in someone's life. Ishmeal can always hold what his grandma taught him to his heart and all the gunfire and killing can not take it away.
I had a grandma who passed away when I was in junior high and I loved her so much, she was simple like Ismael's grandmother, and I mean that in a good way. She didn't care about material things, she just cared about me and my brother and we felt her love and still do. I'm so glad Ismael had a grandma. I think Ismael will find his peace again in the sky above.
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