Traditional village stories forced children to confront impossible moral dilemmas

Evidence

This was a story told to young people in my village once a year. The storyteller, usually an elder, would pose this unanswerable question at the end of the story in the presence of the children’s parents. Every child who was present at the gathering was asked to give an answer, but no child ever did, since their mother and father were both present. — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 864

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 864
• XREF: connects to: A child resolved an impossible parental dilemma by eliminating the threat — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 868; Religion and myth armed enslaved peoples for eventual impossible rebellion

Broader Connections

• A child resolved an impossible parental dilemma by eliminating the threat #exemplifies (0.75) — Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of a Boy…, 868
• Religion and myth armed enslaved peoples for eventual impossible rebellion #exemplifies (0.40)