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"When Bah and I stepped through the sliding doors, we were greeted by an extremely cold wind. I felt my skin tighten, I couldn't feel my face, and it seemed my ears had fallen off; my fingers hurt, and my teeth chattered. The wind penetrated through the summer pants and T-shirt I was wearing, and it felt as though I wasn't wearing anything."
- Chapter 20, page 193
Ishmael was immediately surprised when he had arrived in New York for two reasons. he first one was the fact that it was winter in New York and he had never seen snow before because it does not snow in Sierra Leone. The second reason is the fact that he had only known about New York from the rap videos he used to watch which had depicted the city as war torn and savage as his home.

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"What was happening? Our faces followed the lieutenant as he walked to his house. Why had the lieutenant decided to give us up to these civilians?"
- Chapter 15, page 129
Ishmael was angry, scared and sad when he had to leave the army because he had saw the soldiers in the squad as his new family that would help him to kill the rebels that killed his old family.

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"In the daytime, instead of playing soccer in the village, smoking marijuana and sniffing brown brown, cocaine mixed with gunpowder,  which was always spread out on the table, and of course taking more white capsules, as i had become addicted."
- Chapter 14, page 124
The army had made the kids get addicted to drugs so that they would be dependent on the army and never leave. The drugs had also made it so that the kid didn't want to sleep so that the army had ready soldiers 24/7.

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"Bra spider stories are always good no matter how many times you have heard them"
- Chapter 10, page 73
The bra spider story was a story told to Ishmael by Musa a boy he was traveling it had helped to give the boys a little piece of mind in the troubling time of war.

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"At the end of the song, he rubbed his beard and said that he was impressed with my dancing and found the singing "interesting"."
- Chapter 9, page 68
Watching rap music videos and preforming the rap songs and dances they had saw on the videos was one of Ishmael and his friends main sources of fun and it had allowed them to temporary ignore the going on.

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These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past.

-Ishmael Beah, p. 20

I had tried to find a picture that represented the 3 parts of his life his dreams as a kid, his memories of being a soldier, and his new experiences of being an author.

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1."It's like a jungle sometimes it makes me wonder how I keep from going under."
2."Don't push me cause I'm close to the edge I'm trying not to lose my head."
3."A child is born with no state of mind
Blind to the ways of mankind.
God is smilin' on you but he's frownin' too
Because only God knows what you'll go through."

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Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - The Message (Official Video)

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This is a picture of Ishmael Beah, the author of  the book "A Long Way Gone".
The story is an autobiography of his life, primarily about the time in his life where he had lived through the war in Sierra Leone. One of the main points of the story is how much it tries to convey to us the horrible atrocities of war. Another atrocity of war and another main point is just seeing how a scared young boy who would almost throw up at the site of dead could be transformed into an angry soldier capable of slitting the throats of innocence. The last part of the story explains how he had escaped his horrible life in Sierra Leone and started a new one in america helping the children of war. One of the big takeaways from this book is that life really sucks but if you fight and hold on to hope you can get through it.