A child resolved an impossible parental dilemma by eliminating the threat

Evidence

When I was seven I had an answer to this question that made sense to me. I never discussed it with anyone, though, for fear of how my mother would feel. I concluded to myself that if I were the hunter, I would shoot the monkey so that it would no longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same predicament. — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 868

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 868
• XREF: connects to: Traditional village stories forced children to confront impossible moral dilemmas — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 864; A mother’s unconditional care for her abandoner overrides even the threat of death — , A Year of World Stories, 8422; Childhood conviction can collide with adult authority over a factual impossibility — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1666

Broader Connections

• Childhood conviction can collide with adult authority over a factual impossibility #exemplifies (0.70) — Karl Ove Knausgaard, A Death in the Family, 1666