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How Does Ishmael Beah Use Text Evidence To Support The Social Issue

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The social issue affects the main character in the story by being present constantly in their life. The social issue is war. When Ishmael Beah was only thirteen, his country broke out into a civil war which caused him to lose all his friends, his immediate family and his home. And made him a soldier that would kill without mercy and would cause him to take drugs twenty-four seven. Now a piece of text evidence to support the social issue, “because we had seen that Mogbweno was no longer a place to call home and that our parents couldn't possibly be there anymore”(beah 14). This piece of evidence shows the the social clearly by telling just how the war has affected him and others. It shows that their homes are gone and that their family, the
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