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In the ¨Drummer Boy of Shiloh¨ written by Ray Bradbury, a 14 year old boy named Joby is in the military and is the Drummer during the civil war. In the beginning, Joby and the soldiers are at a camp just waiting for the next day. There is going to be a battle on the next day that all of them are traumatized over. Joby is scared the most because he is the youngest and he cannot defend himself like the soldiers. He feels very insignificant. He only has a drum and drumsticks and they have guns. The…

During the memoir there were so many memorable character that were played a big 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…

Ishmael’s life has been operated on autopilot ever since the war struck home, but when his war terminates abruptly he uncovers forgiveness, regains hope, and opts to make a difference in the world. UNICEF is an organization that works with a mutual goal of providing sustenance for the destitute children around the world. One purpose they have is to halt child soldier enlistment and to rehabilitate the child soldiers, so they can reclaim their humanity. After UNICEF took Ishmael and other young…

can teach the reader. Ishmael Beah, at first started out as an innocent young boy living a normal life, yet his innocence was torn from him when he was entered into war. In the beginning of the book he states," to go to the town of Mattru Jong to participate in our friend's talent show" (Beah 6) . This quote shows the times of when he was free and enjoyed time with friends. Then, desperate enough to do things such as "chased a little boy who was eating two boiled ears of corn by himself…

Perseverance is an important theme in A Long Walk to Water and is demonstrated by Salva in this story. The first example is Salva, he had to persevere through many things. The first thing he had to persevere through is getting away from the rebel soldiers. Salva had to run away from his home and family in the hope of seeing them again. Salva encountered many occasions where the rebel soldiers killed many people around him and Salva had to keep persevering through these tragedies. In this story…

Ishmael Beah’s character changes throughout the story. He starts out as an innocent ten year old boy that didn’t understand much about the war or realize it would be coming to his village. He then faces his village being taken by the rebels, he is now homeless and must try to survive, making him a refugee. After all that he went through escaping the rebels and other people who wanted to cause him harm, he was captured by the Sierra Leone Military. They taught him how to fight and turned him into…

summer reading project entry 1 the major people in a long way gone include ishmael beah who is the protagonist of the book and through the book he is running from soldiers but eventually he becomes a soldier when he cannot escape them. junior is ishmael's brother who plays a major role in how ishmael acts as a soldier even though junior and ishmael were separated. for example when ishmael was going to reunite with his family just before he got there it was burned down causing ishmael…

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 by Ishmael Beah context is what war and violence can do to someone morally and physically. In the beginning, Ishmael is running from the civil war because he doesn't want to be hurt and doesn't want to hurt others, but once he is forced to join the army, he becomes what he feared he would become if he became a soldier. Ishmael mentions that killing became so easy to do that it became “like drinking water.”. A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah was written to tell Ishmael’s story…

During a devastating civil 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…