Family Saves
“Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what” -Unknown. This quote explains Ishmael and his friends and family. Ishmael Beah’s world gets turned upside down and twisted around within the course of two days. He loses his family, his friends, and his innocence. Family is the most important thing to Ishmael. It helps him survive day after day. But, it changes every time someone leaves or comes. During the war, he never truly has a family or a certain person he can rely on. This why family is the most significant theme in the novel, A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah.
Ishmael develops …show more content…
Sometimes he doesn’t try to, it’s just an instinct to find people to travel with, to care for him. During his time in the jungle alone, Ishmael writes, “For five days, I walked from dawn to dusk, never coming in contact with any human being” (Beah 46). His survival is slowly going downhill, he has no idea where he is or where anyone is. He is all alone with no one to nurture him or tell him it’s going to be okay. He says, “I was walking slowly, staggering from hunger, back pain, and fatigue, when I ran into some young people my age at an intersection where two paths merge into one” (Beah 55). At this point, Beah is desperate for any human contact. Seeing these people bring him hope. The thought of being with a group or a “family” is giving him optimism for the future. The group of boys travels together, play together, and share stories with each other, just like a family. Ishmael later gets recruited into the army. This destroys Ishmael’s innocence and any thought of safety or …show more content…
In the Benin Home, Ishmael is thinking to himself, “When I was a child, my grandmother told me that the sky speaks to those who listen to it. She said, “In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy, and confusion.” That night I wanted the sky to talk to me” (Beah 166). When Ishmael is thinking about this, it is the first time since he had been recruited into the army that he has remotely thought about his family. He remembers what his grandmother said, and memories from before the war start flooding his brain. Beah is displaying the importance of family because this quote from his grandma is helping him heal and understand everything that is going
“Family isn’t always blood. It’s the people in your life who want you in theirs; the ones who accept you for who are. The ones who would do anything to see you smile and who love you no matter what” -Unknown. This quote explains Ishmael and his friends and family. Ishmael Beah’s world gets turned upside down and twisted around within the course of two days. He loses his family, his friends, and his innocence. Family is the most important thing to Ishmael. It helps him survive day after day. But, it changes every time someone leaves or comes. During the war, he never truly has a family or a certain person he can rely on. This why family is the most significant theme in the novel, A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah.
Ishmael develops …show more content…
Sometimes he doesn’t try to, it’s just an instinct to find people to travel with, to care for him. During his time in the jungle alone, Ishmael writes, “For five days, I walked from dawn to dusk, never coming in contact with any human being” (Beah 46). His survival is slowly going downhill, he has no idea where he is or where anyone is. He is all alone with no one to nurture him or tell him it’s going to be okay. He says, “I was walking slowly, staggering from hunger, back pain, and fatigue, when I ran into some young people my age at an intersection where two paths merge into one” (Beah 55). At this point, Beah is desperate for any human contact. Seeing these people bring him hope. The thought of being with a group or a “family” is giving him optimism for the future. The group of boys travels together, play together, and share stories with each other, just like a family. Ishmael later gets recruited into the army. This destroys Ishmael’s innocence and any thought of safety or …show more content…
In the Benin Home, Ishmael is thinking to himself, “When I was a child, my grandmother told me that the sky speaks to those who listen to it. She said, “In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy, and confusion.” That night I wanted the sky to talk to me” (Beah 166). When Ishmael is thinking about this, it is the first time since he had been recruited into the army that he has remotely thought about his family. He remembers what his grandmother said, and memories from before the war start flooding his brain. Beah is displaying the importance of family because this quote from his grandma is helping him heal and understand everything that is going