In his memoirs Ishmael Beah recounts his experiences of fighting a war as a boy soldier. Ishmael and his friends went on the run after their village was attacked by rebels. Not long after they were on the run from town to town, and eventually being caught and recruited by the army. The army was against what the rebels were doing, and how they were attacking the different villages and burning them to the ground. During the war ,Ishmael during the war is selected along with a group of his friends to go to a rehabilitation center. Through the horrors that Ishmael Beah experienced as a young boy in the war, he pushed for a peaceful and compassionate society that would be accepting of everyone, even if they had once been a boy soldier through no
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Beah continuously describes the mental and physical challenges of being a child/boy soldier. The strategy of cause and effect is used to explore the cause of his wartime actions of his conscience, “It made me wish I could go back to the beginning and change things.” (pg. 190) The cause in this quote being the actions taken during the war and the cause was the reflection of his actions. Cause and effect is effective because it emphasises the reality that rehabilitation for the mentally scarred boy soldiers is attainable. Beah explores the possibility of never being put into the situation of the war and the benefits that would’ve been granted to him. Another example of Ishmael is his realization that he is, “...not a child soldier anymore: I am a child,” (pg. 199) The cause was the understanding that the chapter in his life where he was a boy soldier is over, and the new chapter where is a child is beginning and that he can be the normal kid that he is. This is very significant because it leads to what Beah pushed other people to strive for, which is a peaceful and compassionate society. It shows that even in our darkest and hardest times we can overcome these obstacles and get back on track to the best version of ourselves that we always wanted to
Beah continuously describes the mental and physical challenges of being a child/boy soldier. The strategy of cause and effect is used to explore the cause of his wartime actions of his conscience, “It made me wish I could go back to the beginning and change things.” (pg. 190) The cause in this quote being the actions taken during the war and the cause was the reflection of his actions. Cause and effect is effective because it emphasises the reality that rehabilitation for the mentally scarred boy soldiers is attainable. Beah explores the possibility of never being put into the situation of the war and the benefits that would’ve been granted to him. Another example of Ishmael is his realization that he is, “...not a child soldier anymore: I am a child,” (pg. 199) The cause was the understanding that the chapter in his life where he was a boy soldier is over, and the new chapter where is a child is beginning and that he can be the normal kid that he is. This is very significant because it leads to what Beah pushed other people to strive for, which is a peaceful and compassionate society. It shows that even in our darkest and hardest times we can overcome these obstacles and get back on track to the best version of ourselves that we always wanted to