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An 8 page book review that examines this autobiography. There are places throughout the world where war has become a way of life and human rights violations are the norm. The large-print, hardcover edition of Ishmael Beah's autobiography A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier explains on its back cover that it has been estimated that are roughly 300,000 children worldwide who have been commandeered into military services, fed drugs and issued AK47s. Traumatized and denied a childhood, these children are forced to commit horrendous acts. This is a global tragedy and Ishmael Beah was one of these children. His story is profound. No additional sources cited.
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Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier explains on its back cover that it has been estimated that are roughly 300,000 children worldwide who have been commandeered into military services,
fed drugs and issued AK47s. Traumatized and denied a childhood, these children are forced to commit horrendous acts. This is a global tragedy (thesis statement) and Ishmael Beah was one
of these children. Summary: The book opens in New York City in 1998, with Ishmael relating that his high school friends became curious about why he left Sierra Leone. He
promises to tell them "sometime" and this is obviously that "sometime" come to fruition (Beah 9). Chapter 1 starts with Ishmaels life before the war came to his town. The
stories told by the refugees who passed through seemed incredible to him then and "exaggerated" (Beah 12). As this suggests, Ishmael was once an ordinary adolescent, having fun with his
friends learning to mime the lyrics to rap music and practicing dance steps. Coming back to the village, Ishmael and his friends, a group that includes his older brother
Junior, find the village under attack. They run and wander, trying to survive. Eventually, Ishmael loses everything that ever mattered to him. At one point, he is on the
verge of being reunited with his family, only to have this chance taken away by another rebel attack. He is changed by his experiences, by the fear and grief. This
makes him primed and ready to accept the recruitment speech of the army lieutenant who recruits him. The lieutenant describes every atrocity committed by the rebel forces, demonizing them and
arguing that "They have lost everything that makes them human," which makes them deserving of death (Beah 185). Ishmael is fed a regular diet of amphetamines, marijuana and other drugs
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