
A Long Way Gone
Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
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Ishmael Beah
In A Long Way Gone Ishmael Beah tells a riveting story in his own words: how, at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he'd been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts.
This is how wars are fought now by children, hopped up on drugs, and wielding AK-47s. In the more than fifty violent conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers.
Ishmael Beah used to be one of them. How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But it is rare to find a first-person account from someone who endured this hell and survived.
This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
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One day.... One day I will meet him and thank him in person. And another day, I will visit the land of my ancestors, Sierra Leone.
Nothing Like It
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Ishmael Beah is AMAZING
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A long way gone = intense
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it was great!
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Simplistic story telling.
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hear the story from the man who lived it
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The boy soldier is reintroduced to extended family and given a second chance at his childhood. Still I wondered. It wasn’t until he made the effort to escape being forced to serve in the military again and his concern for how his foster mother might fear him, that I believed he might have changed.
There were times I wondered about the truthfulness of this story because I felt there were details left out to intentionally improve the author’s image given the gravity of the crimes against innocent people that he committed. In my research, I discovered there are questions about the details but more along the timeline. I still believe there was more to the story of what his group of soldiers did to people than he shared. The whole thing breaks my heart. I think of the innocent people caught in the war, raped and murdered for their food and of the lost innocence of the children forced to fight to survive and who ultimately grew to make a game of taking other people’s lives. I feel extremely fortunate not to have faced anything like this in my own life, so how can I judge without the experience?
A Horrific Story of War in Africa
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Lost childhoods--so sad
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one of the best books I've ever read.
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expertly written and narrated
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