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A Long Way Gone Thesis Statement

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The Problem of Child Soldiers
“Since 2010, there’s been a 34% rise in the number of children living in conflict-affected areas, plus a staggering 170% rise in the number of reported grave violations committed against children in conflict.”(“Child Soldiers: Childhood's End”). This quote relates to my thesis statement because it shows the percentage of child soldiers that are in danger at a very young age and the rate of children in danger is still on the rise. Child Soldiers are young children that are put into war zones and danger zones at a very young age and have no control over what is going on. In A Long Way Gone the children got brained wash but doing drugs and not knowing they were, and being killed at too young of age by also being introduced to violence at too young of an age. History has proven that the use of child soldiers should be banned …show more content…

In the memoir, A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah the child soldiers are being mentally and physically abused at too young of an age. Ishmael Beah describes this by saying “We walked for long hours and stopped only to eat sardines and corned beef with gari, sniff cocaine, brown brown, and take some white capsules. The combination of these drugs gave us a lot of energy and made us fierce.” (Beah 122). Generally, young kids should not be exposed to drugs and forced to do them. This quote shows the mental and physical abuse of the kids because they went from being innocent and never having drugs to having drugs daily with their food to make them have a killing and fierce mentality. This is bad because no kids should ever have drugs at that young of an age and they didn’t even know they were doing the drugs. Mental and physical abuse is forced upon young kids by making them do drugs and they don’t know any better is why child soldiers should be internationally

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