Gone By Ishmael Beah

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In the memoir A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, it is apparent that all people are capable of evil, from children to adults, it is all dependent of the situation they are in, and in a situation of a war, evil becomes acceptable, which is seen throughout the memoir. Beah was not born evil, he was a twelve year old boy who wrote down lyrics to songs, walked miles on miles to be able to perform in his friend’s talent shows, and he was just a child, until he was subjected to the civil war of Sierra Leone. Beah starts out with small acts of evil, he is not accustomed to having to do such things. Beah writes of one of his first acts of evil in the war “That night we were so hungry that we stole people’s food while they slept” (29). Some may not consider

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