In the book "a long way gone memoirs of a boy soldier" the main character Ishmael Beah is taken away from his unit and put into a reform camp where he and other boys from the army get into a fight with rebel boys and wind up losing one of there own and killing two of the rebel boys. At about two months into the boys stay at the camp the boys start to have withdrawals from the heavy drugs they were taking while they were in their units and as the boys start to end the withdrawals the memories of all the people they have slaughtered begin to haunt them and Ishmael is caught between the soldier side of him witch wants to fight everyone that he sees and go back to the front and kill. The boy side of him just wants to play soccer and hang around with his friends. Ishmael is having a hard time trying to find a way to show he is a hard soldier and yet he is wanting to let go and goof off.
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