"why have i survived the war? why was i the last person in my immediate family to be alive"? (p. 179). what does ishmael learn by asking these "job"-like questions?

i think beah uses these questions to understand the bigger picture of things. he can see the forces that made him into the person he had become. he was a scared, scared, resilient, and damaged young man. these questions beah understand he was a pawn in a cycle of power and greed that gripped his country. he was a pawn that, at times, did the right things to stay alive. staying alive also meant having immense psychological damage.

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The passage compared and contrasted the forest to his personal life. (I think)