A Long Way Gone

A Long Way Gone, a book written by Ishmael Beah, is a memoir of his own struggle to survive during the civil war in Sierra Leone. A Long Way Gone was the first book Beah publish back in 2007, and has just recently published Radiance of Tomorrow in 2014. The True story of A Long Way Gone describes the life that Ishmael Beah was forced to face without the help of his family. The Title is appropriate because while facing all these challenges Beah changed drastically compared to the sweet child that he was at the start of the book. Beah becomes a long way gone from his younger days and becomes evil and vicious as the war comes to an end. I found A Long Way Gone to be a very interesting and intriguing read, due to the fact that once you started

He wants readers to understand that he had to do whatever it took so that he could survive till the next day. In the beginning, Beah is a young caring child who just wants to be a rapper, but that part of baeh wouldn't have made it through the war. As the boys become more in need of food they become less caring of the people around them, and care only for survival of their own. As the story continues it becomes clear that the only things that beah wants are to find or avenge his family. He knows he must survive to find them so he joins the army, where he starts to change drastically due to drug abuse. Beah begins to kill anyone in his sight, he states “ I no longer feel pity for the people I kill”. Beah feels this way because if he does not complete his tasks of killing he will be outed from the army leaving him alone to the rebels. The power of drugs, hatred, and the losses he faced made Beah believe the only purpose in life was to survive, That became his goal, to survive. Surviving became his ultimate goal in the war, leaving him to crush any obstacle that got in his way. Beah Became obsessed with war, and living through causing him to do anything necessary to live to see the