Continuous drug use and war films created a totalizing reality for child soldiers

Evidence

There was no time to be alone or to think. When we conversed with each other, we talked only about the war movies and how impressed we were with the way either the lieutenant, the corporal, or one of us had killed someone. It was as if nothing else existed outside our reality. — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 475

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 475
• XREF: connects to: Traumatized child soldiers relive their violence through persistent nightmares abroad — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 75; Removing child soldiers from combat does not immediately eliminate their violent behavior — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 516; Ex-child soldiers experience severe physical pain triggered by traumatic war flashbacks — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 613 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Removing child soldiers from combat does not immediately eliminate their violent behavior #expands (0.80) — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 516
• Traumatized child soldiers relive their violence through persistent nightmares abroad #expands (0.75) — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 75
• Ex-child soldiers experience severe physical pain triggered by traumatic war flashbacks #expands (0.70) — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 613