If we do not learn from history we are condemned to repeat it. These are sad, but true words and they are shown in the stories Sarah's Key and A Long Way Gone, even though these two boys, Sarah and Ishmael, are separated by the time difference and their geological location on the earth, but they were brought war , death and sadness. to them in the same ways. The tragic events experienced by both Sarah in Sarah's Key and Ishmael are more or less the same from the way they lived their lives, to the way the war was brought to them, and the sadness brought to them by these events. The lives that Sarah and Ishmael lived were much the same. They were both very young when these events happened to them. Both Sarah and Ishmael were still in school. They had friends and were well-liked in their communities. They also lived a very safe life. They both knew there was a war going on, but they had always thought it would never reach them. They were well protected from it by their families. Sarah lived with the family where she always played with her little brother. Their parents played hide and seek with them and pretended not to know where they were hiding to make them laugh. Both she and her brother were loved and protected from any harm by their parents. Having these things in her life gave her a sense of security and normality. Ishmael also lived a very happy life. He loved his mother and his little brother and although he had never seen much of his father, he had always known that his father loved him very much. He had a lot of friends and tried to follow current rap trends together and tried to be cool. Having family and friends gave both characters a sense of security, a sense of belonging. Even the way the war was brought into their lives is not… a medium of paper… me as she was. by the police and forced to enter a packed room in the stadium, he committed suicide. Sarah watches as he jumps off a ledge. She fell to her death and seeing this saddens her. Ishmael also experiences death when a woman carrying her baby on her back running away from gunshots, finally found a place to stop and check on her son only to realize that the baby had been shot in the back and lies dead. in his arms. Watching this woman experience this event finally makes him understand that he has no home to return to and no family waiting for him and this saddens him. Death, sadness and destruction we never learn from them, so we are only condemned to repeat it and unfortunately this happens. it happened to these two children. Sarah and Ishmael are separated by time and place, but these great tragedies happen in their lives. When will this cycle end???