A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier (Thorndike Press Large Print Basic Series)

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My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life.
“Why did you leave Sierra Leone?”
“Because there is a war.”
“You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?”
“Yes, all the time.”
“Cool.”
I smile a little.
“You should tell us about it sometime.”
“Yes, sometime.”

This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.

What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? 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 until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.

In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: 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 a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.

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and get adopted by someone from the U.S. And I understand how Ishmael now that he is older still a little tormented by all those things that he lived with. I think that his childhood was really hard and also tormenting to see so many people die. and was able to go to College and write his life story. Its sad that all those things happened in Africa and that some many kids got involved in becoming soldier boys and that they were so young. Before I started reading this book I didn't like reading because I used to think that it was boring but, I had to read this book because it was required for my class.

But I think that he did a good job by telling us his story about life and the soldier boys. But at the same time he was lucky that he was able to come to the U.S. I remember that after I read the first chapter I didn't want to put the book down because Ishmael made this book interesting and it wasn't boring. But at that young age they were tough to use a gun and kill people like if it was nothing. I would suggest this book to anyone to read. I thought that it was actually funny that a boy from Africa would listen to rap he loved to listen to rap.

And Ishmael and his friends just trying to survive and not get caught to become a soldier boy.

So the problem is how much of the events actually happened to the author. Should they be charged, including the author, with war crimes for killing prisoners and slaughtering civilians. I began to read these reviews and did a little research on the accuracy of this book.

Was it tribal, religious, or just economic. If they are not charged and punished will that insure more future child soldiers. Also a chapter explaining the history of the civil war rather than a historic time line would have been helpful.Finally I was left wondering what responsiblities should boy soliders have to bear.

I read this book without reading any prior reviews and couldn't put it down because I wanted to know how everything played out. fiction.The author should have explained the rationale for burning villages and killing civilians.

There are many events to question and few that have been disproved. (Spoiler) The wild pig chase, losing his family right before he was going to find them again, a few boys taking out a whole rebel unit, a 24 hour fight (no one runs out of ammo), being saved by his rap cassette, vivid detailed dreams, the grenade toss, and being stripped searched by border soldiers but then having money to take a cab are some of the events that may make you wonder is this fact vs.

From terrified dislodged tweenager looking for food and family, through his evolution to the most deadly and dangerous of human weapons, the Author takes us along, openly, without patronizing or passing judgement on himself or others. Without the life experience to develop normal moral code, completely stripped of all connection to family and normal life, with youth allowing uncanny physical endurance and capability, they become the most remorseless, ruthless, and skilled of killing machines.

Read, and witness.Without the likes of Ishmael Beah, we would not have the insight to understand the phenomenon. Recruited for their clean mental slate, twisted adults will drive them to robot-like assassin status, then unleash them to obliterate entire communities.

The candid account of a Leonian who exemplifies the chief export of Sierra Leone - Resiliance. On the contrary, these children are among the most deadly of all human begings.

Jarring, sad, disturbing, current, and ultimately uplifting, this work haunts. Beginning with a Leonian middle class kid who couldn't wait to hit the next hip hop event with his friends, the reader is swept up with Beah in his experience as it happens.

One quickly learns that child soldiers are not merely boot-fillers, not just to swell the ranks of otherwise adult forces.

I struggled to turn the pages at times- that's how bored I was.The way he ended the book was horribleThis was my first time reading a book on this subject so I should've been easily impressed, unfortunately, i wasn't.Overall, you should skip this book. This novel is uninspiring at best. I would expect a novel about child soldiers to inspire me to want to do something about the situation but, really, it just left me like "eh, oh well." It's very redundant without much suspense.

Very glad I bough this item. The item came in the condition that it said. I was very surprised it was in new condition, no writings, or bent bindings.