Ishmael Beah

similar in the way that both of them display two young boys who become victims of their country's war. Ishmael and Agu are both normal and good kids before the war, but once it comes to their homeland, they become filled with propaganda, hate and passion to kill people which ultimately changes their personality, attitude, and gives them traumatic experiences that are simply too hard to forget. Ishmael and especially Agu encounter personality changes while serving their time fighting in the…

religious and labor demands collectively made the institution of slavery more complex. Many people also justified slavery as a beneficial alternative because it provided the basic necessities of life, and was believed to be religious in nature; however Ishmael Beah provides…

In both Lord of the Flies and A Long Way Gone, William Golding and Ishmael Beah depict the plight of young boys who are forced to endure various hardships. Through their characters’ adversity, both Golding and Beah suggest that fear and the struggle to survive may result in the degeneration of civilization and logical thought, the loss of one’s humanity, and the corruption of leaders. Both Golding and Beah illustrate how society can collapse due to terror and chaos. For example, in Lord of…

Ishmael Beah’s memoir A Long Way Gone is appropriate for the Sterling high school English IV curriculum because Beah makes use of the complexity of ideas and creates connections to the real world. Markedly, the use of the complexity of ideas makes the memoir well rounded, and better reading material than many other pieces. Accordingly, after Beah and his friends leave the first village after seeing it destroyed, they run into one problem: food. They begin to starve and Beah’s simile represents…

Changes The Statement “All people are capable of evil” is a very true statement. The author Ishmael Beah shows this is the book A long Way Gone. My feelings towards this statement is that I agree with it. Anyone can do both good and bad things, it’s just what influences them to do so. Everyone has a dark side. The situation the person is in could influence their decisions greatly. In the book Ishmael says that “…We were so hungry that we stole people’s food while they slept” (29). This is evil…

When facing adversity it can be difficult to return back to a normal life. When a challenge is presented, a lot of people might quit and not learn anything from it, but some people get through it and use the experience to become a better person. In Ishmael’s situation, he kept fighting to write a book about his life. Even after his parents died he didn’t stop fighting and continued to believe in himself to survive. Adversity breeds resilience because if you are in a new situation that you never…

Childhood is something that is to be cherished and fully experienced, but sadly not all children get these chances. The life that Ishmael Beah, a one-time boy soldier that is now a successful activist, had in his adolescence was a horrible one. survival. His childhood story is like no other. For most of his childhood, he had many things taken from him, and he had to fight for it. As a result, of the war, Beah’s experiences left him traumatized and impacted his life in many ways. Causes of not…

child becomes a soldier, people believe that there is no way to turn their violent views around. This fact however, is false. Ishamel Beah is an ideal example of a reformed child soldier. While he admits to initialy resenting those who rescued him from war, he also explains that with guidence, help, and kindness he was able to become a better person. Sending Beah away to a prison would never have made that possible. He is now an award-winning author and UNICEF’s first Advocate for Children…

developing at the beginning of the story when Ishmael first sees the horror and violence of war. Ishmael was introduced to war at age 12, after having led a sheltered life. When he sees the rebels drive everyone in his village out of their homes and hurt innocent people, Ishmael loses some of his childhood innocence. All of his innocence is completely lost when he is coerced into joining Sierra Leone’s army as a young boy. The army was able to quickly conscript Ishmael and other young boys…

Gone by Ishmael Beah, the main character, Ishmael, faces many challenges and conflicts. These conflicts made Ishmael’s journey tough to get through. Throughout his journey, Ishmael faces villagers and rebels. Ishmael’s journey takes place in Sierra Leone, where rebels are trying to overthrow the government because of corruption and mismanagement of politics, and electoral violence. The rebels will do whatever it takes and will destroy anyone to reach their goal. The first conflict Ishmael faces…