I am reading the book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. This book is about a 12 year old kid, who has to go trough things no child, or man, should have to go through. His entire family was killed by a group of rebels, and these rebels were killing people throughout Sierra Leone. Ishmael was taken in by a squad of soldiers fighting against the rebels, and was trained to become a deadly killing machine. For three years, Ishmael and other kids killed and killed, hopped up on drugs. But after these years, Ishmael was taken to a rehabilitation center and started a new life.
Also many people don't realize this, but even today children are being used to fight wars. Examples of this is that many countries use child soldiers such as: Uganda. The outside research connects to the realization that war is full of pain and struggles. In our memoir it just refers to Ishmael being recruited. However, when Chris and I researched this we discovered that must children were drugged and abducted to join these countries armies. This connects to our realization because it shows how much pain the family went through when the child was taken away and was fighting for his life. It also shows the pain and struggle of war not only affects the victim itself, but also their family.
A Long Way Gone is an interesting book, that shows a different lifestyle. It shows the struggles and problems that people faced in the past, and still do today.
Ismael Beah older:
The main idea of this book was to show the struggles, and pain of war. Ishmael's entire life almost got ruined, he lost his family, he was fighting in the front lines, he could have died anytime. He showed the struggles of life in Sierra Leone as a boy soldier. Specific examples of the hardships of the war is the lose of his friends and family and he had a lack of food and resources to survive.
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The number of boy soldiers that fought in the Sierra Leone war was shocking. It was 5,000-10,000 kids. Most of them died, they didn't have the luck that Ismael did when he was rescued to be rehabilitated.
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Also many people don't realize this, but even today children are being used to fight wars. Examples of this is that many countries use child soldiers such as: Uganda. The outside research connects to the realization that war is full of pain and struggles. In our memoir it just refers to Ishmael being recruited. However, when Chris and I researched this we discovered that must children were drugged and abducted to join these countries armies. This connects to our realization because it shows how much pain the family went through when the child was taken away and was fighting for his life. It also shows the pain and struggle of war not only affects the victim itself, but also their family.
A Long Way Gone is an interesting book, that shows a different lifestyle. It shows the struggles and problems that people faced in the past, and still do today.
Ismael Beah older:
This story seems very powerful. It shows the hardships humans can go through life. People have to struggle and work hard to be really free.
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