Ishmael Beah

Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah , the protagonist finds himself having to become a child soldier taking adult actions in order for his survival. One may learn through A Long Way Gone that childhood is a treasure and when lost or taken away it's impossible to get back . One lesson that can be learned is emotions can take over the ability to reasonably think . Ishmael Beah says “ I shot as many as I could , but I didn’t feel any better.” (122) . This is an example of Ishmael Beah acting on…

Commanders drugged, scared, and abused the kids to make them killing machines, removing all signs of innocence. This was confirmed on the talk show “The Hour” by former child soldier Ishmael Beah who stated, “when I was a child soldier, I was constantly given drugs to get rid of emotions or any controversial thoughts.” Additionally, the article “Child Soldiers Invisible Children” explains how once kids are recruited they become brainwashed…

have the exact same interests, and talk about the same topics. In 1984, by George Orwell, and A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah, the stories are set in two seemingly very different societies but the protagonists, Winston Smith and Ishmael Beah, live very similar lives in reality. At first, one would not believe this, based off of just a summary…

that purpose. Ishmael Beah’s purpose for writing A Long Way Gone was to dispel the notion that war and violence are romantic. In his vivid testament as a former child soldier, Beah examines how war erodes consideration and thoughtfulness for others. He examines a loss of innocence that hopefully the reader won’t have to experience. He describes a world in which adults pray on the weak and frightened. He de-romanticizes war and violence by providing another image to the reader. Beah portrays the…

A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier by Ishmael Beah is a narrative of survival of a 12-year-old boy separated from his family and caught in the mess of the Sierra Leone civil war in the early 1990s. His story reveals his traumatizing and shocking experiences as a soldier driven by anger and revenge for the loss of his village and his culture, only later able to overcome everything that had happened and the things he’d done. Ishmael’s cultural connection to storytelling was ultimately what…

A Long Way Gone (Memoirs of a Boy Soldier) by Ishmael Beah was not very appealing at first, but I eventually fell for it. I thought of choosing King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochschild but I thought my fiction book was somewhat similar to it, thus, I wanted to opt for something different. When I first read the summary of A Long Way Gone, I was truly not quite interested, however, once I read the reviews, I began to change my mind. Its critics seemed astonished and devastated at the same time…

All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu and ABC Antidote by Ishmael Beah both deal with education and it’s affect on war. All Our Names is about two college students in Kampala who get tied up in a revolution. ABC Antidote is a short story about two former child soldiers who have finally overcome adversity and managed to get into a university. Mengestu and Beah have both written stories about war and education, but the ways their characters experience these things are vastly different. The two works…

After having run out of food and water, Hagar has no choice, but to set Ishmael down in the shade of bush and cry in grief and agony (Gen. 21:15-16). However, in this moment of vulnerability the Lord is still with Hagar and provides for her and Ishmael (Gen. 21:17-19). From the oppression of Hagar, the Lord turned her into the mother of a new group of people, who would play a role throughout the rest of Scripture…

Reflection Previously God appeared to Abraham and promised to make him exceedingly fruitful. (Gen. 17-6). Then in Genesis 17 v. 16 God promised to bless Sarah with a son, and told Abraham to name him Isaac v.19. Now, in Genesis 18 God appears to Abraham accompanied by two men. During this visit, God confirmed that Sarah would give birth to a son in due season vv.10-14. Consequently, in Genesis 19 v.2 we learn that the men with God are angels. After sharing the good news of the…

Assyrians. Through his nephew Lot he was also related to the Moabites and Ammonites. Abraham lived to see Isaac marry his wife Rebekah. He died at the age of one hundred seventy-five years old and was buried in the cave of Machpelah by his sons Isaac and Ishmael. Abraham is considered the father of faith, he is the onll person in the Bible referred to as a friend of God, James 2:23 And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness:…