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What was life like in villages in Sierra Leone before the war?

What was life like in villages in Sierra Leone before the war? What are some of the folktales told in his culture? What is the importance of storytelling? What was Ishmael’s relationship like with his family?

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Life was fairly peaceful before the war. Beah's view of war, he states, had been colored by “those that I had read about in books or seen in movies such as Rambo: First Blood” (p. 5). Life for Beah was split into living both with mother and father, divorced, and forming a rap group with his friends.

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