A Long Way Gone By Ishmael Beah: An Analysis

Guns are a controversial thing in today’s society. Whether you are for or against them provoke fear in other’s unarmed. Guns are a way that enables anyone to gain power. In A Long Way Gone a memoir by Ishmael Beah he talks about how his early life was in Sierra Leone, where a war was going on during the time. Beah affected by the war, discussing how he felt and still feels today, “That person pointed the gun at the place where I had been shot and pulled the trigger. I woke up and hesitantly touched my side. I became afraid, since I could no longer tell the difference between dream and reality” (15). Beah tells the reader how his mental health has declined as distinguishing the difference from reality and his dreams are not present. This inability