Character

Our main character and writtero of 'A Long Way Gone' is Ishmael Breah. Thrughout the book he is from the ages of 11 to 15, he loves rap music and dacing. He has two brother and younger and older brother however him and his older brother Junior live with his dad and his younger brother and mother live in another village next to them. He is very close with his older brother Junior. Only his younger brother goes to school because their parents cant afford to send all three of them to go. They have three other friend from the village; Bigrilla, Kaloko and Khalilou. When the Rebels first attack Ishmael and his older from Junior and his three friends travel together from village to village to escape and run from the rebels. By Chapter 8 Ishmael loses his friends and brother. However he meets up with 5 other boys who he traveled with; Saidu, Hahei, Alhaji, Jumah and musa. Saidu passes away one night in his sleep from exaustion and hunger. Musa passes away aswell from blood loss when he got shot by a rebel. Ishmael by the end of the book when he because part of the war and is a soldier at the age of 15. Ishmael had not seen anyone from his family, brothers nor parents since the age of 11 when the war began and this had made Ishmael very indapendent. He become very anger and vilent as he become brain washed by the war and the other soldier who had trained them to kill any Rebel. As he because addicted from marijuana, cocain and brown brown (cocain and gun powder). He is and agry and lost young man who has nightmares almost every night either wakes up screaming or in a sweat. He get severe migrains as he always did in the war but when he get pulled out of the war to a sort of  "rehab" there for no more drugs to calm his migrains. As his life goes on  he makes a new life for him self and also become and successful author as he wrote his true story of his life the book 'A Long Way Gone'