Ishmael Beah

In the memoir A Long Way Gone, author Ishmael Beah describes his survival journey as a lost child in his country, because of the civil war in Sierra Leone, then becoming a child soldier facing war daily, afterward the process that Beah went through during rehabilitation and finally in fear escaping the civil war. Ishmael Beah emotional journey has three stages of development in which Beah utilized music. In the first stage, Beah uses music as a survival mechanism to keep sane and safe. In the second

home to their families everyday. Ishmael Beah understood what it was like to have hope in terrible situations. When Ishmael wrote his book “A Long Way Gone” he was able to show how he had hope when he lost his family, when he went to New York and when he tragically lost hope when he was in the war. Ishmael went through losing not only his siblings, but also his parents. At the very beginning of the book Mattru Jong was attacked by the rebels separating Ishmael from his parents. “We must go back

a child” (Beah 199). Ishmael Beah had a long road to rehabilitate but he was able to rehabilitate because he had vital forces shaping him. In Ishmael Beah’s memoir, a long way gone, Ishmael was a child soldier in Sierra Leone. He wrote a memoir sharing his experiences of being a child soldier and of him rehabilitation. During 1991 to 2002 there was a vicious civil war going on in the western African country of Sierra Leone between the RUF rebels and the government forces. Ishmael Beah was a young

Ishmael Beah was an ordinary twelve year old boy from Sierra Leone, until one night changed his entire life. The author of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy soldier is Ishmael Beah himself because he wanted to portray his life journey for readers to understand what life is like for children fighting to survive during warfare. Also, going through trauma is never easy, but however it's one of the only ways people can learn from their mistakes and prevent them from happening in future generations. It's

In the memoir of Ishmael Beah, A Long Way Gone, Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Beah states that his life’s journey has been a huge obstacle, but has learned to overcome that struggle by venting while the two contradictory sides continue their battling. Beah accomplishes his goal of explaining to the reader his point of view through the use of rhetorical questions, scenic narration, and parallelism. Ishmael Beah’s apparent purpose is to share personal accounts of his life with his fellow country men, in

Ishmael Beah tells of the events of his youth and untimely loss of his childhood in his book A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. In this heart wrenching recollection of his childhood, Ishmael tells of how the war in Sierra Leone changed his life and took him from the life he led as a child growing up with his family, hobbies, love of music and mischief, and left him a wandering orphan and later, a brutal soldier who’s daily activities consisted of killing, burning and thievery. Surviving

a struggle; it has many up and downs, but those downs are what shapes you. The hard times can only make you stronger. Ishmael is a younger boy who had his life turned upside. War struck his village causing him to lose his family and friends. He was forced into hiding and had to run away from everything. Eventually, the government caught him and he became a child soldier. Ishmael became addicted to drugs that the government provided him with. He killed many people and burned villages. Ultimately,

of them are worse than others. Ishmael Beah is the author of “ A Long Way Gone”. Ishmael was forced into a war that he did not want to get involved in. As a child Ishmael was not violent he was not someone who wanted to kill people for revenge. Soon after his village is attacked, he has to run and keep safety, but soon after he is dragged into the war as a child soldier. Ishmael had no choice but to fight and kill people, it was the only way he would survive. Ishmael is both a victim and a victimizer

difficulties, sticking together in try of staying alive. The strong will power being hungry and walking for days. Surviving this war impossible, the long days with food just kept on weakening Beah. It seems as if just a miracle could save Ishmael Beah from dieing. In the next lines, I’m going to review the moments where Beah made himself a survivor rather than a victim. During the years that were supposed to be Beah’s childhood he faces hardship that no one could have imagined that he will. It was after he

In Ishmael Beah’s memoir, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Beah encourages the opinion that everyone is responsible for his/her own actions in all cases. Beah proves this opinion to be true through death, thievery, and violence. Throughout the memoir there are many cases of death, some because of health reasons and others for intentional reasons. Through family, anger, and survival of the fittest, Beah makes being responsible for someone else’s death known. After Beah’s long, treacherous