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Long Way Gone Lessons

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Learning a Life Lesson Reading A Long Way Gone, a book about child soldiers, in Sierra Leone during the 1990’s made me feel disgusted because of the treatment of the young children. Reading about the most disturbing sequence in life, dealing with children my age or under made me realize how much life means. I could not imagine ever going through anything that will determine my life well-being. This made me look forward to more in life and appreciate the life I do live, because everyone doesn't have it like I do. In high school, I read A Long Way Gone from that reading it made me start appreciating my life even more. During my reading, I came to discover that the child soldiers did not have a typical childhood like the children nowadays. As a child soldier, their lives were taken from them at a very young age like between the years of six to eighteen years old. Imagine being that young being forced to give up your family and childhood to become a child soldier to kill and to commit other acts of violence. Because of the child soldiering the children saw different things that children should not be able to see like, piles of dead bodies, and large amount of blood. Throughout the book, I grew distraught because it was not too much to be done for the children who lives that were taken away. Mostly, all the children were …show more content…

No family, only the war life they were forced to live. Child soldiers did not have a childhood, neither did they have the right amount of love and affection that they deserved. Life was taken away from these kids, and it was not anything they could do about it. From reading A Long Way Gone, I plan to make a better life for my children in the future and try to prevent the difficulties that happened to the child soldiers from my children. A Long Way Gone, has taught me a valuable lesson to always appreciate everything because there are people around the world that wished they had a better

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