Family Matters

The chapters 17-18 where a very nice turn of events.  Ishmael is much further along in his rehabilitation and this is good news.  Thanks to Esther and her kind words and mountainous support to the children and the center, Ishmael is beginning to regain his innocence of being a child.  His transformation although great will never be complete because he will never be able to forget what has happened to him and for this I am sorry for him.  On the brighter side of things however he has regain his some of his childhood by meeting up with Mohammed and his uncle.  Mohammed helps him to remember the good times they had doing performances for their village before the war destroyed it.  His uncle although he has never met him before is a good way for Ishmael to regain that since of family seeing as how it is the closes he has to it. I hope that his trip to New York goes well. Knowing that he is still alive today and happy I'm pretty confident that it will go well and he will return to Africa safely.