Ishmael Beah

influenced and affected many of the native’s actions and thoughts towards each other. Due to the civil war people have lost trust in each other. On page 37, Beah writes “This was one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy”. For example, in many of the situations Ishmael and friends encountered, many people had tried to hurt them on behalf on their “themselves, their families, and communities”. Therefore, I frankly cannot…

For every Ojok Charles and Ishmael Beah there are thousands of innocent children who become monsters and never get to regain their innocence and live good lives. The losing of innocence of child soldiers is a major problem in the world and more should be done to combat this epidemic…

Beah’s style, moving from an autobiographical and often prosaic style in A Long Way Gone to a lyrical, expansive style in Radiance of Tomorrow that draws from both English and Mende modes of expression. Yet despite his use of Sierra-Leonean phraseology, Beah manages to convey complex ideas seamlessly and without confusing his largely American readership. That is, although his phrasing is abnormal and, at times, clunky, he seldom leaves the reader clueless—and instead leaves them pleasantly…

pain, every suffering, joy, and confusion” (Beah 166). Ismael Beah uses memories as a method to find coziness within the horrific times throughout the environment of RUF. Beah reveries the periods of times before RUF as a child, recounting the jubilant moments of his family to surpass another day in war. In the other hand, Beah’s uses his memory to devotes himself motivation to stay alive in order relive those memories. His grandfather’s memories helped Beah in a survival way, and his…

Level I Discussion Questions Beah moves around in time as he tells his story, flashing forward and backward. What is the effect of this technique on the overall meaning of the text? Would it be more effective if he stuck to strict chronology? Why or why not? Flashbacks and shifts in time are commonly used to give both effect and understanding to a narrative. I think that Beah used this technique effectively. Beah's journey is never ending. It takes place in the future, present and past. We…

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 author was a child soldier and explains his story through hard times and difficulties of war in Sierra Leone. As he was used,…

the war would bring him. He later as a guiltily middle-aged man full of war stories about Vietnam in order to cope with his painful memories. Here we witness a conversation between Tim O’Brien the author of Things They Carried, a Reporter, and Ishmael Beah author Long Way Gone, as they talk about the “Life of a soldier, looking at the glass ceiling” by Taj…

between having the capacity to trust different people, while surviving. Inside Ishmael Beah's record of his life entitled A Long Way Gone, he mourns how war has ruined the happiness regarding meeting individuals that he once had. Beah had to confront with new individuals often, which made him be wary of whether putting his trust in that individual could end up being the root starting point of his demise one day. As Ishmael meets diverse people for the duration of his life his suspicion of…

Beah says at one point of his book, “ We watched movies at night. War movies, Rambo: First Blood, Rambo II, Commando, and so on… We all wanted to be like Rambo; we couldn’t wait to implement his techniques”(121). These movies helped them create a surreal…

should not be able to be forgiven of that because of the fact that we don’t know what they would do if they ever got a gun in their hands again. Ishmael Beah was a former child soldier. He was interviewed about what his previous circumstance was like. Beah says, “My gun was my provider and protector, and my rule was to kill or be killed,'” (Beah). Beah said that his gun was his protector. Criminals were depending on these things for survival in the war. If people handed a child soldier a gun,…