CHAPTER SUMMARIES WITH NOTES AND ANALYSIS
NEW YORK, 1998

Summary

This opening vignette shows the narrator as he has arrived in the United States after his lost boyhood in Sierra Leone. He is attending high school there and his fellow students question him over and over about his life in his homeland. He observes that they haven’t begun to suspect his full story. Their inquisitiveness is ironic, because they think that his being in country at war is cool. He can only smile a little and say that he will tell them about it sometime.

Notes
This quasi-conversation opens the door to what becomes Ishmael’s “telling” of his not so cool experiences in Sierra Leone.

CHAPTER ONE

Summary

Ishmael and his family and friends have very little connection to the war that is taking place in their homeland until refugees begin passing through. There are families that have walked hundreds of miles to escape the fighting and atrocities and as they walk by, Ishmael is......

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