Ishmael and Esther had just met eachother and everyone would tell Ishmael that what he went through in the war was not his fault but he never believed anyone
Esther made Ishmael believe that is wasn't all his fault..... for some reason, the tone of her voice got through to him.
“I had this dream last night. I don’t know what to make of it,” I said, looking away.
She came and sat next to me and asked, “Would you like to tell me about it?”
I didn’t reply.
“Or just talk about it out loud and pretend I am not here. I won’t say anything. Only if you ask me.”
She sat quietly beside me. The quietness lasted for a while, and for some reason I began to tell her my dream. At first she just listened to me, and then gradually she started asking questions to make me talk about the lives I had lived before and during the war. “None of these things are your fault,” she would always say sternly at the end of every conversation. Even though I had heard that phrase from every staff member—and frankly I had always hated it—I began that day to believe it. It was the genuine tone in Esther’s voice that made the phrase finally begin to sink into my mind and heart.
A Long Way Gone
