Long Way Gone Reflection

The famous memoir of a child soldier and his experiences, A Long Way Gone, has amassed some controversies on whether the book is all real or if sections of the book are made up. Beah explains that he was a child solider for around 3 years. But new records have been found that it’s only been for around 3 months. Beah describes multiple times about his trauma after being a solider for 3 years which is a pivotal part of the book. The question concerning the validity of Beah’s memoir change the impact of his message. When you read a memoir, you expect everything to be transparent between the author and the reader. Fabrication in memoirs defeat the validity of book and the message. First off, one reason this changes the impact is that his induction
Another piece of evidence is from the same article is the quote, “Peter Wilson, a reporter for The Australian, traveled to Sierra Leone and said not a single person corroborated Beah’s timeline of events.” The events
On the article by Peter Wilson, “Beah’s credibility a long way gone”, Wilson says, “But in the interview with Oxford University student reporter Naomi Scherbel-Ball this week, Beah said: “I drew the map from memory and gave it to the publishing house – I didn’t do the measurement.” Beah himself admits that this was all from memory and he didn’t even make sure that what was being said in the book was actually factual. Beah on a different article, “Thanks for the memories”, says, “I wrote the book from my point of view, as my experiences as a child in the war. Which is why I didn’t write about girls because I wasn’t a girl in the war, so I wrote about my account and my account is accurate in my memories as far as I can remember it and that is what I stand by.” This can be controversial because in the book, Ishmael took many drugs such as Brown-Brown, which could have affected his