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A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
by Ishmael Beah
A Long Way Gone is a special book. First of all, it made me cry, it made me madly defend it to everyone I saw and also recommend it to those same people. This book was amazing in the brutal honesty of everything that was written in it. This book made me question what I thought I knew about the wars and boy soldiers.
A Long Way Gone tells the story of Ishmael, a boy who loses his family and is forced to become one of the infamous boy soldiers we have heard so many stories about. In reading this memoir, we get to see everything from the point of view of a boy that wanted to get the bad guys for taking his family away. It is a tragic tale of human nature and manipulation that although ends fairly well, is slightly traumatic, even for the reader. Some of the themes in this book include death (descriptive), killing in all kinds of ways, and PTSD. Be careful choosing this book for your child to read as this is not for everyone.
A Long Way Gone tells the story of Ishmael, a boy who loses his family and is forced to become one of the infamous boy soldiers we have heard so many stories about. In reading this memoir, we get to see everything from the point of view of a boy that wanted to get the bad guys for taking his family away. It is a tragic tale of human nature and manipulation that although ends fairly well, is slightly traumatic, even for the reader. Some of the themes in this book include death (descriptive), killing in all kinds of ways, and PTSD. Be careful choosing this book for your child to read as this is not for everyone.