Beah wrote better in high school than Albom does in middle age, an essay on the site for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation suggests
Good news for serious readers: After Feb. 15, the Starbucks coffee shops will be selling Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone instead of Mitch Albom’s For One More Day. Beah’s book hasn’t arrived in stores yet.
But the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation has posted on its site www.wagingpeace.org “When Good Comes From Bad,” an essay that Beah wrote as a student at the United Nations high school in New York. In this poignant piece he tells how he lost his family and was forced to join the army in Sierra Leone after the civil war in his country came to his town he was 13. Beah packs more emotion and drama in this 1,124-word essay than Albom does into all For One More Day. And while Microsoft Words readability statistics show that Albom is writing at a third-grade level, Beah was writing seven years ago at the level of grade 7.5.
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