After reading the book "Long way gone", It shows me how powerful humanity can be.

Beah Made me feel as if i can make it though anything, It also made me value life,my family and the way i live today. The story showed the impotent of family. It also showed me how us as people take so much for granted because IT just there and you thing its always gonna be there. He had been though almost everything but he kept fighting he didn't give up. that's that i think he had it so fast, the other kind of just gave up after a while, like in the story his friend was ready to die he gave up. But Beah adjusted to every environment. when he didn't have food he found something to eat no matter what it was he found a sources for everything. this story showed me that you also cant judge someone on there past. Because thing things they may have

had to do may not have been by choice, but maybe it was what they had to do to survive.

Claims and Thesis.

[Claim]

The claim I'm making on the text. How Kids are brain washed and taking away from their family.

Beah was alone had to take care of his self with no idea where his family was.

solomon son was no where to be found, when he found his wife and kids he son wasnt there he was heart broken.

[Thesis]

They brain wash the kids in lots of ways .

solomons son was brain washed, to hate his father.

Questions I'm Exploring

What are the kids feeling?
Why were so many innocent people killed?

Academic Articles

I'm research sierra leone history, so it will give me a little more inside on everything that happened.

Post #2

Beah was always a happy child, who loved family and rap music. when the war begun Beah was very young. but he was forced to grow up to survive, he didn't have anyone to protect him. his family was no where to be found the only thing he had was his brother who he was very close to. So he didn't have any other choice but to fight. he joined the army to help protect the village. he lost all his innocence. 

but for anyone I'm should this would have been a very hard time for them not just Beah, if it was me i would be forced to grow up also not having anyone really to turn to etc..

but he became cold hearted not caring, he killed a rebel without a care. murdered some kids his age and took there food. at this point it seems like he feels like he haves nothing to live for. his family is gone and hes in a living hell blood bath. he started using Drugs. everything had went down hill. the elders were scared of kids"a 12 year old couldn't be trusted".there wasn't anymore respect it was more so every man for himself. this is like the holocaust, people were taking away from there family's beating,killed, its a sad thing to go though 

and when i read this book that's the picture i get while reading. Beah isn't the same person he use to be

i wonder will he ever.

Family (Long Way Gone)

-I thought about where my family was, Whether I would be to see them again, and wished that they were safe and not heartbroken about Junior and me.

Beah is going though so much at such a young age. He haves no idea where his family is or for that matter if there even alive. And the same goes for his family, This have to be the most hardest thing for him on top of the war and other things he's seen in the past weeks. I couldn't imagine going though this or even making it as far as he did not seeing my family for days I wouldn't even make it this far. This is a very overwhelming time for him but he's being strong and making it though .