“A Long Way Gone” by Ishmael Beah is a book about the loss of Innocence at the hands of war. Unfortunately this happens to many children across the world every day and it has throughout history.
When the book begins Ishmael is a normal boy. He hangs out with his friends playing soccer and listening to music. He has not seen much violence yet and the the only form of war he is seen is in movies and in literature. He has not witnessed a murder or seen the terrible things he will later in his life. I included this part of the book to my analysis to give an example of where Ishmael is in his life before he is thrown into war unwillingly. He is childish and lives like any of us would.
However this does not last. A group of rebels go from village