Even though this picture is a cartoon, I feel as though it has a large amount of meaning to the main focus of our blog. Children all over Africa are being forced to fight in the war of terrorism and they are at such a young age that their childhood is taken away completely just as you can see in this image here. Children as young as 5 years old are being forced to become child soldiers and they have no chance of getting out of it. Just like in the book we read in history called A Long way Gone, Ishmael Beah was a part of terrorism in Africa at only the age of 12. He was forced to become a child soldier and had no way of getting out of the situation. His entire childhood was taken away and he could not even look back on decent memories as a child because they were all striped away from his mind. Being a child soldier is not something any young girl or boy should have to go through and these innocent children becoming a part of this war in Africa needs to come to an end.