What got me thinking?
In my highschool i have not entirly been a reader. Well i can that i read but i didn't enjoy it. One day my mother bough me a book. It was called A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah. This book really changed my veiw of my life aswell as others that are less fortunate than I. This novel was an Autobiography about how the author was forced into being a child soldier. His family was killed and his homw was pillaged by rebels. With no where to go he tured to the Sierra leon military for protection. While fighting for the military at the age of eleven, he was givin cocaine marijuana and many other drugs to dent his preception of reality. When all was said and done he was created into a killing war machine. After fighting for years he was finally rescued by a missionary he was able to finally start living a normal life. If you would like to learn more of this story then read the novel. It will definatly not let you down, reader or not.