"I see that you look very sad. Your forehead used to glow naturally when you were just a child. Your parents and I used to discuss how unusual that was. We thought it was because you were happy all the time. Your mother said you smailed while you slept. But when you started your troublesomeness and were angry, your forehead glowed even more. We didn't have any other explanations for your forehead and how it related to your character. And here you are, it isn't shining anymore."
This passage show what a wise man Gasemu, Ngor Gasemu was. He could see the change in Ismael. When he speaks of troublesomeness, he means that depression has hit Ismael. He sees a boy who went from a happy glowing soul, to lifeless. He can tell that all the happiness is gone or hiding somewhere. I like when he says, even when you were angry, you had a glow. It means that a person who has feelings, either happy or angry, at least has feelings. To be angry or sad, it better than no feelings at all. I think that is what depression is, it is a nothing world, where you are like the walking dead. Ismael is at this state in his life. A forehead that doesn't glow, eyes that show nothing. These are all signs of what the war has done to him. He is no longer an innocent child, he is an empty shell, so no wonder the army can mold him. I really think later in this story after he arrives in America and starts the healing process, his glow to his forehead will come back. I hope so. We all need a glow on our forehead!
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