Ishmael

The memoir A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah should be a requirement for English IV. The emotionally diverse memoir offers the readers connections to the real world and ideas of complexity. Significantly, the memoir has impacting information to help the reader connect with real world issues, therefore being a positive attribute as an English IV curriculum. For instance, in the memoir the war in Sierra Leone had just started, leaving everyone helpless and despaired. Food is the one source that…

Although Ishmael, the gorilla, had many good points about society, there were some that I thought were problematic. Ishmael made it seem like the Leavers led the better lifestyle and made the Takers seem like terrible people. I had a problem with this because he didn’t really go into the positives of being a Taker. Takers should continue to live their life to the fullest and not sacrifice their life to save future generations just because someone thinks that they should..No lifestyle is…

curiosity of the reader since the opening sentence, “Call me Ishmael” (Melville 3). It suggests that the narrator is not really named Ishmael, instead he asks the reader to call him by that name. This implements a great sense of excitement that pulls the reader to continue exploring the mind of this unknown person since all humans have a tendency to be drawn towards the mysterious. Herman Melville captures this perfectly when his protagonist, Ishmael proclaims: “I am tormented with an…

narrator encounters allot during this section. First he didn’t know where to find Ishmael, no one would tell him where he was and Ishmael felt hurt and betrayed by him. To break the ice, the narrator tries to bribe the caretakers of Ishmael to leave him alone with Ishmael. This resembles the relationship between the man and Ishmael is very strong and that he wants to rekindle things. During the time the narrator and Ishmael were left alone, they start talking about the Leavers and Takers. The…

St Croix, Ishmael LaBeet is by far the most infamous member of the family. After a mass killing reported by a sole survivor this Vietnam veteran claimed the trial was biased due to race. Regardless, Ishmael was able to delay incarceration…

The gorilla, which we later find out that its name is Ishmael, was captured from the jungles of the West Africa and put him in a zoo that he in lived for awhile. Then, a man named Walter Sokolow buys Ishmael. They then move in together, and Mr. Sokolow becomes Ishmael's teacher and an accomplice. Through their friendship, Mr. Sokolow recovers from his grief from his family dying in the holocaust, marries, and has a daughter, named Rachel. Ishmael then becomes Rachel’s mentor where she excels in…

allowed Ishmael to create a forward drive that kept him running. After he and his brother were separated by the rebels in an ambush, he realized that it was easier to hope for a better day. He was confident that someday everything would be better. During his time in the military, he lost hope and faith in getting out of the war, because it was his outlet and he enjoyed it, but then when he was taken to Benin home a rehabilitation center, he hoped for someone to claim him and…

role in Ishmael’s life. I believe that the Lieutenant who trained Ishmael and his friends to become the boy soldiers they were in their childhood to be the most interesting character to me. How they met was actually an interesting and rather sad story. Before the rebels destroyed Ishmael’s village, Ishmael left the village to participate in a talent show with his friends. There also an interesting fact about the talent show. Ishmael and his friends were participating in the talent show to…

One of the most prominent boundaries found in the book happened in the mind of the main character Ishmael. His division of nightmares and war memories were kept separate from his memories of his childhood. When analyzed in further detail, we can begin to understand the turmoil that children involved in the war endured. For long periods of time Ishmael fought against sleep out of fear of what his unconscious mind would force him to endure. There was even a time where he was all alone, and he…

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…