A Long Way Gone Themes

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The theme of A Long Way Gone is war. This is the most Dominant theme, considering that the book was written because of a civil war in africa. The theme seems to develop very slowly as the pace of the book is very slow and almost boring at the beginning, but as the story develops and the theme becomes more lucid and clear, the pace of the book takes off. There are a few smaller themes in the memoir that play into war such as death, “Too much blood has been spilled where you are going. Even the good spirits have fled from that place.” pg 12, “One man carried his dead son. He thought the boy was still alive. The father was coverd with his son’s blood, as he ran he kept saying, “I will get you to the hospital, my boy, and everything will be fine.””