Remains independent, courageous and strong throughout book
"I joined the army to average the deaths of my family and to survive, but I've come to learn that if I'm going to take revenge, in that process I will kill another person whose family will want revenge" (Beah 96).
Major conflict in story is obviously civil war, but an important one is also the conflict with Ishmael vs. himself
How he perceives himself to others regardless of his past
"So I told her the whole story about how I got shot, not because I really wanted too, but because i thought that if I told her some of the gruesome truth of my war years she would be afraid of me and would cease asking questions" (Beah 120).
"Ishmael Beah, Author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier." Ishmael Beah, Author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Jan. 2017.