A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier

In the story A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah, we follow the life of the author himself, from the young age of nine years old to when he is about fifteen years old. We see his struggles living life in a time where violence and death held a firm grip on Sierra Leone, and how he lost his entire childhood both running away from the war, and being a part of it as well. Before this novel, I had somewhat of a vague understanding of the civil war that had occurred in Sierra Leone. I watched certain…

Ishmael Beah’s Memoir as a Reflection of Society Ishmael Beah is a writer from Sierra Leone and a human rights activist. He became famous for his extremely popular novel A Long Way Gone: A Memoir Of A Boy Soldier. The book was nominated for a Quill Award, an American literary award that was consumer driven, in 2007 and named one of the top ten nonfiction books in 2007 by Time magazine, ranking at number three. The book is a firsthand experience on the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone; Beah…

Ishmael Beah, the author and the main character of the novel, A Long Way Gone, is a child soldier during a civil war in Sierra Leone. This memoir recalls the journey of Ishmael’s life during the war and the struggles he has faced since then. The death of his family made him want to go against the rebels, but to survive he had to kill blameless civilians. In return, he was forever damaged with terrible memories of his childhood days. This memoir increased by knowledge of the African region and…

do not encounter the horrors of war. For Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier, the horrors of war became a reality at this young age. In his memoir A Long Way Gone: Memoirs Of A Boy Soldier, Ishmael does everything he can to escape the sadness of old experiences that bloodshed has brought to him. The memories of violence and loss that plague Ishmael's mind burden him with pain throughout his journey. Ishmael has very few ways he can cope with memories and exposure of warfare. The events of…

could meet them." (Beah 80). The way Ishmael Beah describes the stars describes how your outlook at life can cause you to believe the stars are yours or that they are unreachable. Shakespeare's play Othello tells the story of Othello, his recently married wife Desdemona, his soldier Iago, Iago's wife Emilia, and Othello's wife Desdemona. Comparably to Othello and Desdemona's new relationship, Ishmael Beah's memoir, A Long Way Gone, tells the story of an immature boy trying to survive in his…

be achieved from experiences and encounters. In the memoir, A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah expereinced meny of his childhood years as a child soldier. Living the demoralizing and trapped lifestyle of a soldier has actually made some sort of a positive impact on his life by giving him the gift of maturity. Beah’s age did not play a single role in his mature ways. He was a young, mature boy which most people in this world today would say, “No way, that’s impossible. It has become almost natural…

A Long Way Gone Essay The effects of the Civil War were very traumatic; people would be captured and sent back to their villages with arms or legs cut off. Ishmael Beah wrote a book called “A Long Way Gone” which is a memoir about his memories from the war because he was forced to be a boy soldier. The civil war in Sierra Leone was a very cruel war that took place from 1991 to 2002. The R.U.F. was a rebel group from the war and they would capture little boys, train them to kill people, and drug…

will find news about the war and effects . I don’t know what are the people fighting for. “A long way gone” and “Things they carry” are the war stories that shows the struggle of a soldier day to day life, what happens on the war. Reading these books that I mention above, it changed the way I looked at the war; what goes on the war and how many people are suffering. In the book “A long way gone”is the memoir…

never having to try hard, and never going through difficult times does absolutely nothing to help you grow. Therefore, hardships can influence a person’s life for the better, because hard times promote diligence. In the book “A Long Way Gone (Memoirs of a boy soldier), “ the main character (and author) was recruited into the army after rebels slaughtered his family. While in the army, he went through many terrible experiences that still haunt him today. One positive impact of the unfortunate…

The Host vs. A Long Way Gone I had the movie The Host and it was a fantastic and very detailed movie. The Host is about a young girl whose body gets taken over by a soul. A soul is an alien that has been placed into a human body so that they can survive. This movie is definitely a science fiction movie, aliens have basically taken over the human race and the seekers are trying to get the last of the humans to become one of them. The whole movie is full of the alien species invading the world.…