Answer:
The most likely audience for the story "Unusual Normality" seems to be the general public, the readers or anyone who comes through this story who have no idea of how lucky they are.
Explanation:
The short personal narrative "Unusual Normality" is based on the true childhood events in the narrator/ author Ishmael Beah. The narrative details his life as an orphan and a child soldier, then adopted in America where he had a chance in living a new life away from the war-torn life in his native Sierra Leone.
Though the whole story is more or less directed at the people he met during his narration, be it the schoolmasters, or even his classmates and their parents, the intended audience seems to be the general public. He did not seem to particularly direct his story at anyone in particular. But as a whole, he is just narrating his life events and provide information about his life in Sierra Leone, so that those who think they know what hard life is may know the reality of his life and how lucky most people are to have a family and be checked upon by their parents. This is evident in his closing statements-
<em>"I wanted them to understand how lucky they were to have a mother, a father, grandparents, siblings, people who to them were annoyingly caring about them and calling them to make sure they were ok. I wanted them to understand also that it was extremely lucky for them to only play pretend war and never have to do the real thing and that this naive innocence that they have about the world was something that I could no longer have I did not have that capacity."</em>
