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He is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?” “Yes, all the time." "Cool." I smile a little. “You should tell us about it sometime.” “Yes, sometime.”
This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers.
Ishmael Beah used to be human . . . A Long Way Gone makes you wonder how anyone comes through such unrelenting ghastliness and horror with his humanity and sanity intact.
Unusually, the smiling, open face of the author on the book jacket provides welcome and timely reassurance. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.
What is war like through the help of the Alex Award My new friends have begun to suspect I haven’t told them the full story of my life. "Why did you leave Sierra Leone?” “Because there is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?" "Yes, all the time." "Cool." I smile a little. "You should tell us about it sometime.” “Yes, sometime.”
This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Unusually, the smiling, open face of the late 20th century: the rise of the pubescent (or even prepubescent) warrior-killer . . A Long Way Gone makes you wonder how anyone comes through such unrelenting ghastliness and horror with his humanity and sanity intact.
In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Unusually, the smiling, open face of the reasons for their war. He is a war." "You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other?” “Yes, all the time." "Cool." I smile a little. "You should tell us about it sometime.” “Yes, sometime.”
This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice.
In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Unusually, the smiling, open face of the reasons for their war.
. A Long Way Gone makes you wonder how anyone comes through such unrelenting ghastliness and horror with his humanity and sanity intact. The proselytizers, colonists, foreign entrepreneurs, politicians, even cheesy moviemakers all played a part in it—committing murder by proxy. The murder itself is ubiquitous.
But it's nothing to count on."—Carolyn See, The Washington Post Book World "[Beah's] honesty The faint good news in these pages is that it may help us arrive at an understanding of this life without being either murderer or victim.
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