After reading the only the first two chapters of “A Long Way Gone”, I am already sucked into the story. The way Ishmael Beah writes his autobiography makes you grasping for more. His style of writing is just straight on and true. He basically just tells it like it was and is not trying to beat around the bush. He is not trying to make it seem better than it was, when in all actually the events he experienced were terrible.
Another thing I like about Ishmael Beah is that in only two chapters of reading, I already feel terribly for him and want to know what happened next. The way he sets up the story of his life as a pleasant time with his friends, just being kids and acting innocent. Acting like any other kid would at their age, listening to music and dancing. He then is taken aback with the rebels raid in his home village.
After reading just the beginning of the book, I am both looking forward to reading what happens next but also fearful of what will happen. I know that Ishmael will be abducted, and it will become extremely graphic, but I want to know his life story if it means being completely appalled by what has happened to him.
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I love the way you write. I can tell that you arent just saying it because it is a blog but because you actually feel that. And I feel the same way that they wasy he writes just keeps me grasping for more.
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