Analysis Of A Long Way Gone By Ishmael Beah

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah context is what war and violence can do to someone morally and physically. In the beginning, Ishmael is running from the civil war because he doesn't want to be hurt and doesn't want to hurt others, but once he is forced to join the army, he becomes what he feared he would become if he became a soldier. Ishmael mentions that killing became so easy to do that it became “like drinking water.”.
A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah was written to tell Ishmael’s story and expose the horrific acts child soldiers are forced to do. Ishmael was forced to join the army to fight against the rebels trying to overthrow the Sierra Leone government. While in the army, Ishmael and his fellow soldiers were exposed drugs and extreme