Ishmael Beah

In the memoir A Long Walk Gone, Ishmael Beah shares his memories of the Sierra Leone war. The war caused many hardships to the citizens of this country. It also caused a loss of innocence. Ishmael Beah embodies the loss of innocence by explaining life’s casualties before and during the war. Before the war broke out in Sierra Leone, Beah’s life was innocent. It is evident when Beah shares that he would dance and sing. Beah says that he loved to learn the verses of “I Know you got Soul by…

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…

A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah is a true story of a young boy soldier’s life. Just at the age of twelve when he was away from home, his village had been attacked. When he returned with his brother and some friends there was confusion and violence that made them go from village to village in search for things for survival such as food. They also do many things in desperation that they may have never thought of doing. Later on Ishmael was taken in as a soldier by the army. He became brainwashed…

In an interview, author of A Long Way Gone and former child soldier Ishmael Beah said “Everyone is capable of going beyond their own humanity and doing certain things that are not humane” (Beah). In A Long Way Gone the events that occur in young Beah’s life force him to commit acts that many believe they never could do no matter the circumstance. Beah believes that in a certain situation anyone can be forced into making choices that may look like a lack of humanity. He says that “People if they…

touching and true story of the life of Ishmael Beah, a child soldier in the Sierra Leonean war, I was able to understand how much hope Ishmael had in order to survive. Each and every day, Ishmael believed in the idea of a better future for himself and his friends. Without this strong belief, Ishmael wouldn’t have had the strong resolve to survive and to never give up on life. Basically, one significant message of A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah is to never give up on…

growth of humanity. In A Long Way Gone: Memoir of a Boy Soldier, author Ishmael Beah examines the concept of freedom and oppression through illustrating his encounters as a child soldier during the Sierra Leone civil war in the 1990s. The dark influences of war strips Beah of his childhood innocence and transforms him into a senseless killing machine, until he is rescued and rehabilitated by UNICEF. Throughout the novel, Beah illustrates a clear image of his struggle for freedom against the…

Memorable book: A Long Way Gone In the memoir A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, Ishmael is the most memorable character. He shows strength, courage, and fearlessness. Ishmael fought for his life, and almost lost it at times. He is strong for not giving up, he is fearless because he fought for what he thought was right, and he is courageous because he put his story into the world. Ishmael overcame the obstacles he faced in the end, but this does not mean what he face was easy. First he left his…

The book entitled “A Long Way Gone” written by Ishmael Beah shows the reader a lot about keys to survival. It is an autobiography about Ishmael’s life. Ishmael is the main character, a teenage boy who grew up amidst the Sierra Leonean war. He experiences horrible things that many of us in Canada could not begin to imagine, such as Ishmael’s many brushes with death as well as his experiences as a child soldier. This book can teach the reader a lot about what is required to survive in situations…

efficiency of being able to condition children from an early age. The effects include post traumatic disorder, mental health issues, medical issues, the list goes on, and much about this experience can be observed in the book, “A Long Way Gone,” by Ishmael Beah. A child soldier is a person under eighteen years old serving in arms. There are two types of recruitment, voluntary and forceful. Voluntary recruitment is when children volunteer themselves up to serve in an armed group. Forceful…

war between RUF (Revolutionary United Front) and the government, many people had suffered and had great loses. In the book A Long Way Gone, written by Ishmael Beah, it demonstrates what happened in Sierra Leone when his nightmare because a reality. In the war, the government and RUF would recruit young boys to help fight in this civil war. Ishmael, a 12 year old boy who was a young soldier himself, paints a picture of himself and the effects the war has caused him. He was one of the many child…