Although A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah is a memoir, it uses many elements of fiction.
Memoir is a type of literary genre that constitutes a personal narrative and its most significant feature is the insertion of the writer himself as the main character.
Writing an memoir implies a literary pact and not a historical or documentary one, because sometimes the narrative presents a memorialistic rescue (based on reality) and sometimes it builds the plot with the threads of fiction.
So, in this case, A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah is a memoir, it uses many elements of fiction.
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