Ishmael Beah

everything; every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion”. Oppression in this book provides ways of good intentions that may turn into oppression. How power influences people to do horrendous actions; how children have to fight for their lives. Ishmael beah, a human rights activist attended Oberlin university wrote a outstanding book. Grabbing the attention to young minds only in the best way. Dedicating his knowledge and power to help child soldiers in a nonviolent way.…

Gone by: Ishmael Beah is about himself and how he becomes a boy soldier during a war in Sierra Leone. Ishmael was a boy who performed in a rap group with his friends until Ishmael’s village was attacked by rebels. During all of the confusion and violence performed in the war, Ishmael Beah, his brother, and some of his friends walk to different villages to search for food and shelter. Although their struggle to get food for survival led them to attack young children to get food. After Ishmael…

the genuine innocence-- yet there are some kids who can lose it all. As discussed in “Babes in Arms”, the young Ishmael Beah, author of A Long Way Gone, was involved in the war in Sierra Leone and forced to see a dark side of humanity that impacted his life in several ways. A very important factor in a person’s youth that can really affect them is the presence of both parents, which Beah had been taken away from. Family members are some of the most important people around. Siblings stay close…

is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell.” William Sherman. A Long Way Gone, written by Ishmael Beah, recounts a real life experience of a child soldier in Sierra Leone and like Sherman said he finds war to be hell. The memoir portrays in horrific detail the realities of war and the effects it has on all the people. Ishmael Beah is only twelve when the war arrives on his doorstep in 1993. It tears apart his family and leaves him to wander the country for…

disappeared into the darkness before our wishes 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…

Although Ishmael Beah was very fortunate to escape Sierra Leone, millions of other poor, innocent civilians were not lucky enough to flee their war-ravaged homeland. Similarly to the first two highlights, the next two passages work together to display the progression of damage that war takes on the country of Sierra Leone, specifically its capital city of Freetown. A passage from pages 146-152 clearly highlights Freetown as a busy, religious, and magnificent city filled with bustling streets of…

The book “A Long Way Gone”, by Ishmael Beah, is a nonfiction novel talking about his life as a boy soldier. Before Ishmael’s transformation into a boy soldier, he was just like any other child. He was young and inexperienced. Nothing yet had prepared him for the troubles he would face in times of Sierra Leone Civil War. He attempted to maintain innocence through his childhood memories and also his sense of wonder, soon to realize the anxiety of war haunts his mind. The violence, drugs, and…

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah follows Beah as he experiences the invasion of his home and his becoming of a child solider. In the memoir, chapter four and five sees Ishmael go retreat back to his home with his brothers as he has nothing else to live off of. As the boys walk through their hometown, they witness the carnage and aftermath of the rebel attack. They are unable to put words to their shared horror, and they are unsure of what they can do for each other. However, their hunger is more…

Ishmael Beah did lose his innocence because he had to watch so many love ones die, he did not have a problem killing people, and he got addicted to drugs. First off, he had to watch so many love ones die. The boys were walking to try to find a village to stay at. They met a man named Gasemu and helped him carry bananas. Gasemu said their families were in the next village, so they decided to go there. Once they got there, they flames everywhere and the rebels shooting people. Ishmael cried, “If…

The Journey of Becoming a Hero Maria Nemeth once said, “Every time you are willing to say ‘Yes’ to everything on your path, you express the hero inside of you.” Ishmael Beah has his fair share of “yes” in his life, whether the yes was intentional or not. Beah was born in Sierra Leone in 1980. At the age of twelve he experienced the Civil War that was taking place for the first time. The Civil War lasted from March of 1991 to January of 2002 (BBC News). During this time period the government…