If so, why? See also Working with Novels. A Long Way Gone — Macmillan. Study Guide, excerpt from audiobook, about the writer. According to the United Nations, there are about , children under the age of 18 serving in government forces or armed rebel groups.
Skip to content. Menu Content. Choose language: English ChevronDown. He becomes an advocate at the UN and other international organizations for dealing with the solution to children forced to become soldiers. Point of View: The point of view is first person through the eyes of Ishmael Beal Tense: The story is told in the past tense. Cite this page: Clapsaddle, Diane. What's Up With the Title?
The title of this book— A Long Way Gone —comes from a line in chapter 9: I began to worry, because last time I had found someone in the village who had gone to school with us and saved us. What's Up With the Ending? Tired of ads? Join today and never see them again.
Their day-to-day existence is a struggle of survival, and the boys find themselves committing acts they would never have believed themselves capable of, such as stealing food from children.
Eventually, Ishmael is conscripted as a soldier by the army and he becomes the very thing he feared: a killing machine capable of horrible violence. The army becomes his family and he is brainwashed into believing that each rebel death may avenge his own family's slaughter.
The boy soldiers become addicted to cocaine, marijuana, and "brown brown," which give them the courage to fight and the ability to repress their emotions in times of war. Ishmael is taken to a rehabilitation center, where he struggles to understand his past and to imagine a future.
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