In 2015, 17,805 citizens were murdered in Africa. In the novel, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah, Beah identifies the violence that is a consequence of war. Beah’s many violent experiences teach about how families and countries are torn apart as just two consequences of violence.Ishmael’s many violent experiences teach that in violent times families are torn apart and countries are torn apart as a consequence of violence. The first consequence of violence is families are torn apart. In the novel Beah states, “We must go back and see if we can find our families before it is too late” (Beah 10). This example is a consequence of violence because when the rebels come in the town shooting the place up, everyone runs in