In a long way gone, Ishmael Beah’s motivation in life is to find his family. Until then, he has to escape the war and survive day to day. Furthermore, Ishmael has hope that his family is alive. After the rebels attack Mattru Jong, Ishmael and his friends wander for days in hunger and silence. While their hunger became fierce, they are forced to return to Mattru Jong to look for money and provisions in Khalilou house. They found nothing but a destroyed house and Ishmael’s tiny bag of money, which was stash under the foot of the bed. On the point of returning to the nearby villages, the villagers would not sell to them and was stashing supplies for their own survival. Ishmael and his friends decided to take action as he describes, “That night