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A Long Way Gone
Ishmael left his village one morning with a group of friends only to hear, later that afternoon that he could never return home. Rebels had captured his village and the war had begun. His memoir takes us through the forests of Sierra Leone with him as he searches for food and shelter. He found enough to get by, though lack of signage and the death of so many make it impossible for him to know the names of the villages that provided him these necessities.
"When I was very little, my father used to say, If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.'"
Ishmael is full of good and never gave up hope for better days. Through hunger so painful that he "didn't have the appetite to eat or the strength to find food" and a haze of drug use to numb his pain, he leads the reader to believe that somewhere inside of him he always knew he would escape the war torn forests of his homeland.
He watches as friends die and he takes the reader through his continue......
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