Gone

all true. For this book critique I will be assessing the novel A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, he wrote this novel to share his story and inspire many who are going through tough times, to keep going, and keep hope. While the book was told in the third person from the person who experienced the Sierra Leone war first hand for himself, it was a very well written and captivating novel. One of the main reasons A Long Way Gone was so fascinating was due to the reason that this was Ishmael Beah’s…

others say, child soldiers should be given amnesty because it wasn’t their fault or that they have suffered and gone through many horrible moments in their life. Child soldiers should be given amnesty because it wasn’t their fault and had didn’t have the choice to. For example, the child soldiers were brainwashed and were taught to do violent things. According to the book, A Long Way Gone, they were abducted and were taken away to learn to kill others to stay alive in a war zone. It says, “My…

stuff is now gone. Your freedom is now gone. Everything you have ever worked for is all gone. It’s is all because you had a little book. In the society Ray Bradbury wrote about in Fahrenheit 451 having books was outlawed. If you had a book and people would find out, “firemen” would come and burn all your belongings and you would go to jail. Mr. Bradbury most likely wrote this to warn us what would happen if we got rid of books. In this society there is no individuality, books are gone, Chaos is…

Imagine you are captured by a group of rebels, then are forced to kill your parents to survive. This is what happens to Ishmael Beah and thousands of other children in A Long Way Gone. Ishmael is forced to kill hundreds of innocent people while on drugs. The three most important themes in A Long Way Gone are loss of innocence, the damages of war, and family. Ishmael loses his innocence when war comes to his village. The author states, “Blood was coming out of her ears.” (Beah 12). Ishmael has…

Leone a country of despair, that had gone down in hill in many ways after becoming a country. Sadly, Sierra Leone has faced economic, social, and political influences that have negatively impact the country in many ways. Such ways that have destroyed the country is a civil war, dividing the country with two different group of people who are out to kill. Many people have been affected, even children who were used as child soldiers. As in the book “A Long Way Gone” by Ishmael Beah, Ishmael the…

INTRODUCTION In a world that has been destroyed by nature disaster and war. The starvation and the dangerous creatures. “Gone” by Michael Grant unwinds into an amazing story of the teenagers. There is a first event that the elders are gone and the world starts getting destroyed. All the teenagers are scared of everyone in the society. The nature disaster, starvation, and the war make the teenagers to be nervous and concerned. In addition, they get attacks by the creature which has been created…

was once said by Stephen King. Symbolism is very effective as it allows writers to add many layers of meaning to their work, by making their characters and themes more universal, and by sparking the reader's interest. In his literary work, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier, Ishmael Beah uses symbols to underscore his central theme of oppression and/or freedom. First of all, he uses dreams to show the many challenges he faced throughout his life and journey through Sierra Leone. Secondly,…

insignificant little lies that at the end tend to becomes a bigger problem than what we thought ? These little lies that could start from the most common one:“i'm fine” when really you're not or “i didn't do that” or even “i won't do that no more”. In the book Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, the main characters (a couple, Amy and Nick) are always lying whether it's something small or something big, they lie, whether it's to each other or maybe even about each other, they lie. In this literary…

play that occured in the death of his father. In order to do this however, Hamlet needed to have all of those close to him believe he had gone crazy. His plan worked so well that everyone around him thought he had lost all sense of self control and any form of coherent thought as well. Even those who read and watch the play start to believe that he has in fact gone completely mad. Despite these beliefs, Hamlet does not actually go mad in this play for it is shown that at many times he drops this…

Family can drive you insane. Families have certain qualifications and characteristics that define them. In A Long Way Gone, Ishmael Beah, “The Best Locker Room Speeches of Week 17”, and in “My Gang, My Family” Rowenna Davis all show and explain these things. The characteristics of a family are people who complete hardships together, gives safety for one another, and they share the same pride. In “My Gang My Family” the author Rowenna Davis gives countless examples of how families and gangs…