The first flashback in the chapter provides the reader with information about Ishmael's family. What do we learn? (p. 10-11 in the book A Long Way Gone)

From the first chapter of the story, the reader gets to know that they are foreigners and the father works for an American company. The flashbacks reveal how his family was before the rebles attacked his village. the first flashback showed how his father was absent from their life and he is unable to afford to send his children to school