When I was seven I had an answer to this question that made sense to me. I never discussed it with anyone, though, for fear of how my mother would feel. I concluded to myself that if I were the hunter, I would shoot the monkey so that it would no longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same predicament.

Farrar, Straus and Giroux Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone- Memoirs of…, loc. 868