ljohnson130 's review for:

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah

4.0

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This is a powerful true story about the experience and rehabilitation of a boy soldier in Sierra Leone during the civil war. The story opens up with Beah telling about his life in Sierra Leone and how it drastically changes when the RUF come to power. Later, he explains what it was like working for the military to combat the RUF. Finally, we see the trying process it takes to get the boy soldiers rehabilitated. What I found to be most interesting was the second half of the book, where we really see exactly how this life is impacting Beah and how it changes his life.