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In A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, Beah shares his harrowing experience as a child growing up in Sierra Leone. He triumphs through many changes and obstacles throughout his book. The most notable of which is how he goes from child soldier back to a functioning person in society.

At the beginning of the book Beah talks about his simple uninterrupted life as a child growing up in Sierra Leone. “On the morning that we left for Mattru Jong, we loaded our backpacks with notebooks of lyrics we were working on and stuffed our pockets with cassettes of rap albums.” This shows how simple and innocent he was before the world he knew caught fire and burned down in front of him. He later says “Whenever I get a chance to observe the moon now, I still see those same images I saw when I was six, and it pleases me to know that that part of my childhood is still embedded in me.” This is by far the most important quote from the book. It shows that through everything he had been through, all the hardships he’s lived though he realizes that he was robbed of his childhood experiences.Explanation: