"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity," Dwight D. Eisenhower once said. In modern society, war is glorified. Children walk down their school's hallways terrorizing others in that it makes them seem sophisticated. However, war is not something to be glorified. According to Ishmael Beah, who was once a child soldier, war is agonizing. In his novel, he describes the harrowing conditions he had to endure during the Sierra Leone War. In "The Long Way Gone," he exudes how childhood wartime experiences affected his life negatively.
Childhood wartime experiences tormented Ishmael Beah through flashbacks. It would remind him of afflicting memories of the war. According to the author,