Book report October/2021
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- A long way gone is a memoir that takes place in 1993 during a civil war in Sierra Leone. The village Ishmael Beah (the protagonist) lives in gets attacked and he was forced to leave with his friends due to uncertainly of the war.
- Beah and his friends went to his aunt's village to reunite with his brother. He tells his brother goodbye and notify him that this will be the final time they will see each other as he is departing to the village his parents are staying at.
- In the long run, Beah turns into a solider and becomes the thing he feared: a deadly machine capable of brutality. He is brain washed by the army and told each rebel he kills is revenge for his family. To gain courage and deal with stress the boy soldiers becomes addicted to drugs. Eventually beah and the other boy soldiers are turned over to UNICEF(United Nations Children's Fund).
- Beah is taken to a rehabilitation where he struggles with letting go of his past and looking towards a new future. He finds love and compassion from a nurse named Esther which helps him forgive himself for all the things he have done. A family in Freeman welcomes him and he is saved by their support and kindness.
- Beah is invited along with other children of war to New York City to tell his story. During his trip he meets other survivors like him and Lauren Simms , his future foster mom. Ishmael Beah moves to the United states to live his new life.
- The most important theme in the book is loss. The reader is shown what it means to lose your family, your identity and how war can damage an individual and country. This loss shows us how important survival and hope is during this situation.
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