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Unless we learn from history we are doomed to repeat it. These are sad, but true words and are shown in the stories Sarah’s Key and A Long Way Gone, though these two kids Sarah and Ishmael are separated by their time difference and their geological locations on the earth but war, death, and sadness was brought to them in the same ways. The tragic events experienced by both Sarah in Sarah’s Key and by Ishmael are very much the same from the way they lived their lives, to the way war was brought to them, and the sadness brought on them by these events.
The lives that Sarah and Ishmael lived were very much the same. They were both very young when these events happened to them. Both Sarah and Ishmael were still attending school. They had friends and were well liked in their communities. They also lived a very much secured lives. Both knew there was a war going on, but they always thought that it would never reach them. They were well protected from it by their families. Sarah lived with are family she played with her little brother all the time. Their parents would play hide and seek with them and pretend not to know where they were hiding to make them laugh. Both her and her brother were loved and protected them from any harm by their parents. Having these things in her life gave her a sense of security and of normalcy. Ishmael also lived a very happy life.He loved his mom and little brother and though he never saw a lot of his father he always knew that his father loved him very much. He had many friends and would try following current rap trends together and try to be cool. Having their family and friends gave both of these characters a sense of security, a sense of belonging.
The way war was brought into their lives is also anot...

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...me like she was by the police and forced into a packed stadium room committed suicide. Sarah watches as she jumped off a ledge. She fell all the way down to her death, and seeing this saddens her. Ishmael also experiences seeing death when a woman who had been carrying her baby on her back running away from the gun shots, finally found a spot to stop and check on her child only to realize that the child had been shot in the back and lays dead in her arms. Watching this women experience this event finally lets him understand that he has no home to return to and no family waiting for him and this saddens him.
Death, sadness, and destruction we never learn from them so we are only doomed to repeat and sadly it happened t these two children. Sarah and Ishmael are separated by time and location, but these great tragedies happens in their lives. When will this cycle end?

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