A Long Way Gone

The freshmen reader is a book that all freshmen get and are suppose to read. This years freshmen reader was A Long Way Gone Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah. I really liked the book. It was one of those books that you just can't put down. I had likes and dislikes about the book. The very last paragraph of the book is by far my favorite. He ends the book by talking about a question that was asked to him about a monkey earlier in the book. Ishmael says that he knew the answer when he was seven, but he didnt know how his mom would take the answer. Ishmael said that he would shot the monkey so that the monkey wouldn't put anyone else through the situation. But, if he shots the monkey his mom would die too. I can't say that I have been in this kind of situation before, but after reading this I realized how strong someone would have to be to do something like this. I believe that Ishmael Beah is one of the strongest people there are. I would never be able to do anything that Ishmael did and for that I give him mad props.